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Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy by ddek on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:55AM (#29392090)
This is a regulator, not a political appointee or contracted agency.
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Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy by LatteLazy on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:05AM (#29393617)
Im not quite sure what you mean. In the UK system everyone is a political appointee. Just how blatent a PM is about interfering in "independent" agencies depends on the PM. And Boris literally just sacked the head of the standards commission and dissolved it to save a political nobody who isn't even needed to shore up a majority.

There is no separation of powers here, as long as the PM is the PM, he is basically god.

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