Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence?

Re:Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence? by gadders on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @08:01AM (#41510507)

I mean two tier policing of the anti-immigration protestors vs the rioters two weeks or so earlier in Leeds, sparked by children of (I believe) Romanian travellers being taken into care.

You could also look at other examples - protestors against Israel's actions in Gaza doing nazi salutes, for instance, or singing anti-semitic songs.

The other canonnical example is during lockdown, the treatment given to women protesting the murder of Sarah Everard vs BLM protestors.

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Re:Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence? by n4r9 on Thursday September 12, 2024 @12:37PM (#41522721)

> the rioters two weeks or so earlier in Leeds

So in a riot of vastly smaller scale, there 27 arrests and 4 charged.

> protestors against Israel's actions in Gaza doing nazi salutes, for instance

In a protest that was overwhelmingly peaceful, there were 4 arrests, including of someone who did a nazi salute: https://www.mylondon.news/news/three-arrested-after-nazi-sal... . And if we compare it to the delightful things we're seeing in far-right protests:

- https://x.com/AntiRacismDay/status/1819790189369143691

- https://x.com/StanCollymore/status/1819451687566004237

The responses look proportionate to the behaviour.

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