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Re:YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos by sebmellen on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @05:10PM (#27361340)
The posters I referenced were from 2002 [0]... I can only imagine how much worse it's gotten since then.

> Attention Londoners: Big Bobby is watching. That's the message of posters plastered along London's bus routes earlier this week to assuage riders' crime fears.

> But the posters are having the opposite effect on privacy advocates, who say the artwork is creepily reminiscent of the all-seeing authority described in George Orwell's 1984.

> The posters show a red double-decker bus crossing a bridge as four floating eyes stare down from the sky. The eyes' pupils are the symbol of Transport For London, the city's mass-transit provider.

> "Secure beneath the watchful eyes," the poster says. "CCTV and Metropolitan Police on buses are just two ways we're making your journey more secure."

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2002/11/londons-privacy-falling-down/

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