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Cedar  ·  3127 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fucking Hell...

We've had something called the "snoopers charter" in the works since 2002/2003, I'm not entirely sure how it has changed but it's still going strong in 2016 and last time I looked into it, they were making similar "decrypt all the things" demands -- fundamentally breaking how our modern society functions.

The Home Secretary, Theresa May. is one of the biggest driving factors for this bill -- and she is very likely our next Prime Minister with 2/3rds of the vote (within their party, we can only hope it goes to general election before that). She has also tried to remove us from the European Court of Human Rights.

Oh, and the woman who is running against her? She has in the past said that workers of small companies deserve no rights.





user-inactivated  ·  3127 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a shitty position to be in. Similarities turn up at surprising times, as well.

What do people think about it all, though? What do they feel?

Cedar  ·  3127 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What do you expect? Apathy.

My country has called to leave the EU, removing a layer of oversight from our government, purely through anger over "immigrants". They do not care what happens to us, only that it doesn't benefit "them".