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Re:Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid d... by akira2501 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @12:52AM (#39871925)
It's the long tail of free speech. You can't stop someone from publishing information about how to defeat such a device. It would become common knowledge very quickly and would be used easily by criminals with specialized toolsets available on several different levels of marketplace.

In the UK, you can much more easily wrap all that up, and deny existence to those markets and even to import of that equipment.

And it's beyond culture. The UK holds an active monarchy and a hereditary house of parliament. The citizen simply does not have the same status and is unavoidably a "subject."

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Re:Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid d... by TeaBrain on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:53AM (#39872453)
Hereditary peerage was ended with the House of Lords Act 1999.
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Re:Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid d... by Ao7bei3s on Saturday March 30, 2024 @04:19AM (#39872897)
I don't know anything about UK law, but apparently the act still allows for 92 hereditary peers[1], and indeed:

"The most recent grant of a hereditary peerage was in 2019 for the youngest child of Elizabeth II, Prince Edward"[2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords_Act_1999

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_peer

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Re:Police are tagging fleeing cars with GPS darts to avoid d... by TeaBrain on Saturday March 30, 2024 @12:46PM (#39876408)
I was specifically referring to hereditary peerage in the House of Lords, which was almost completely done away with. At around 13% of members, the chamber is largely no longer a chamber of hereditary peers. Hereditary peerage and hereditary peerage participation in the house of lords are separate. There are around 800 hereditary peers, but since 1999, only 92 of these hereditary titles have a spot in the house of lords. The hereditary peerage granted to Prince Edward is not one of the 92 hereditary peerages in the House of Lords, so it doesn't allow him participation.
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