Submitted by AmethystOrator t3_z83qzj in worldnews
BallardRex t1_iy9o1jf wrote
Reply to comment by really_that_one in UK waters down internet rules plan after free speech outcry by AmethystOrator
Tories are just patronizing bastards, bred in the bone, and they’re so far from understanding the tech in question that they end up being led by their registered members… who are in their 80’s.
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CptES t1_iy9wko5 wrote
Labour passed several bills like this. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers act, 2000 and the Digital Economy Act 2010 are Labour bills and both are disgustingly authoritarian.
Furthermore, GCHQ's dragnet internet surveillance system Tempora was designed, tested and implemented under a Labour government.
PublicFurryAccount t1_iya4dt1 wrote
Why though?
From an American perspective, it always looks like the UK is trying to outlaw being vaguely scummy.
moirende t1_iya09kc wrote
Canada, under the Liberal Party, is actively seeking to introduce a variety of internet censorship laws, a murky extra-legal tribunal system that can be easily abused to circumvent due process, rules that would force search engines and platforms like YouTube to change their algorithms to prioritize and de-prioritize content based on criteria selected by the government, and all manner of other not particularly “liberal” legislation.
All of this appears to stem from the belief that they know better how people should live their lives than the people they govern, and are therefore taking the opportunity to force their own ideals on everyone else.
This, by the way, from a Prime Minister who was caught having worn blackface as an adult so many times he can’t even remember them all and then “apologized” by saying this was a learning moment for everyone, and also who loudly expresses his support for feminism but later blamed his victim for experiencing their encounter differently after it came to light he had groped a young reporter. So maybe not the kind of person we might want dictating morals to everyone else.
In other words this isn’t a left-right problem, it’s the slow encroachment of authoritarianism into everyone’s day to day lives by the entrenched elite.
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