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Re:Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate Internation... by varispeed on Friday August 25, 2023 @01:18PM (#37264385)
It's not like people don't care. People I know deeply care about this, but there is nothing you can do about it.

Government has even banned the right to protest. Given the cost of living crisis and economy going down the pan, nobody wants to risk their job and roof over their heads to protest something that is going to happen anyway.

Everyone I know will be voting against Conservative party and that is currently the only way to stop them.

Re:Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate Internation... by domh on Friday August 25, 2023 @01:52PM (#37264830)
Are the Labour party even against this though?
Re:Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate Internation... by pjc50 on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:03PM (#37265013)
Not particularly. The Blair-era government was also pretty pro-surveillance.
Re:Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate Internation... by switch007 on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:26PM (#37267242)
Indeed. The opposite of Conservative is not Labour.
Re:Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate Internation... by toyg on Friday August 25, 2023 @06:28PM (#37267805)
It's ever so slightly more likely to bow to public pressure, because they are ever so slightly less dependent on moneyed elites funding them (the bulk of their financial backing comes from trade unions). At this point, every little counts.
Re:Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate Internation... by ben_w on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:49PM (#37266241)
> It's not like people don't care. People I know deeply care about this, but there is nothing you can do about it.

If Brexit hadn't happened, I would've tried to keep campaigning against the Investigatory Powers Act (that lets the Welsh Ambulance Service see which domains you've visited without a warrant).

I figured Brexit would make it impossible to undo; I think in retrospect I was right for the wrong reasons — I thought the rhetoric of Brexit would only be satisfied by also taking the UK out of all international human rights courts and treaties, rather than it would require 150% of all available political focus from basically everyone in the country.