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Re:Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate Internation... by shmel on Friday August 25, 2023 @01:48PM (#37264757)
I think it is not apathy, but learned helplessness. People tried to change things and they got nothing. I care about this a lot, but I don't know what to do. The current UK government is openly corrupt, people know it, people want them out, but the best we could do is to get rid of Boris. And that barely moved the needle. We have the climate change crisis and the eco-protests achieved pretty much nothing.
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Re:Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate Internation... by domh on Friday August 25, 2023 @01:50PM (#37264791)
Yeah this is where I'm at. I feel powerless and unable to actually make change. I care deeply, I'm just hopeful that Signal, WhatsApp and Apple stick to their principals and don't break encryption. Using Android I could hopefully sideload Signal anyway?

The worst part of it is that I'm not even convinced the Tories are going to lose the next election. People have such short memories or choose to forget the scandals come election time.

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Re:Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate Internation... by paleface on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:05PM (#37266390)
> The worst part of it is that I'm not even convinced the Tories are going to lose the next election.

Dude - time to start your journey, out of Plato’s Cave! The lefty/righty paradigm, is old and dusty. Just one axis of thought, out of three.

It was David Blunkett, who wanted us all to show our: “papers, please!” - so don’t think for one moment, that the desire to renew, and transplant, a Stasi esque surveillance borg, stops at the Conservative corridors of power.

We are boiling the frog!

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Re:Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate Internation... by zh3 on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:06PM (#37265854)
Yes, most people don't care enough to fight back. So it's down to the few who do care enough to do it - and keep on doing it.

Iggy Pop ('Main Street Eyes'):

  Boy, I feel so outgunned today
  But I'll get up and fight back, anyway
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