Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the Online Safety Bill [pdf]

Re:Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the ... by fauigerzigerk on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:01AM (#36599147)

Conservative? Has Labour opposed any of it?

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Re:Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the ... by feldrim on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:07AM (#36599225)

I believe here it is used as an adjective, not the name of a political party.

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Re:Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the ... by fauigerzigerk on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:53AM (#36599740)

I think it's used as a reference to the UK incarnation of a political philosophy [1], which by no means has a monopoly on promoting the serveillance state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism

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Re:Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the ... by stephen_g on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:19AM (#36599335)

Labour are not “The Conservative Party” but they are definitely (at the moment) pretty solidly a conservative party.

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Re:Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the ... by fauigerzigerk on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:40AM (#36599579)

The surveillance state isn't an exclusively conservative idea though. It has a long and storied tradition on the Left as well.

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Re:Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the ... by coremoff on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:59AM (#36599804)

I believe you're conflating "big-C" Conservative with "little-c" conservative.

The Conservatives (aka Tories) are conservatives. The Labour party are also conservatives as much of the voting public in the uk is small-c conservative and also authoritarian.

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