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Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide by dmje on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:00AM (#36917649)
We're not allowed to protest.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-government-plan...

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Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide by archagon on Saturday July 29, 2023 @01:02PM (#36922204)
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
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Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide by ethbr0 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:31PM (#36923674)
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..."
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Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide by lannisterstark on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:57PM (#36923945)
UK rebelling against the UK itself would be a nice (and IMHO, deserved) end to the empire.
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