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Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] by ben_w on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:15PM (#25029623)
In the UK? Voting is a paper tiger for stuff like this. The bill was supported by both Tories and Labour, and I was living in a Tory safe seat. I mean, I could’ve moved to Scotland and supported the SNP bid for independence or Wales and Plaid Cymru (but not NI and Sinn Féin given their policy of not taking their seats), but realistically there was nothing I could do about it other than what I did do about it.

https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/80

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Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] by dane-pgp on Sunday November 08, 2020 @06:21PM (#25030027)
If you didn't have any luck with the House of Commons, you perhaps should have tried voting for a different member of the House of Lords, or different judges, or a different monarch. Now that the UK has left the EU, you don't have to worry about those institutions being overridden by unelected MEPs.
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Re:EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] by ben_w on Sunday November 08, 2020 @06:53PM (#25030188)
By the time the next UK general election is scheduled, I rather hope to have replaced my UK citizenship with a German one. (It’s not certain I could do it that fast, but I’m going to try).
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