Has the UK always been so dystopian or is this a new thing and if so why? Crime can’t be worse than the US.
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Brit here. It's always been like this, at least for my whole lifetime. I remember in the 90s they were trying to get biometric ID cards going with people's fingerprints and retina scans on them, and the government has been pretty consistent with trying to undermine encryption, harvest everyone's metadata etc. Best I can tell, we seem to be the testing ground for any Orwellian nonsense that gets dreamed up, before it gets shipped out to the States and other places.
Seems like they’re by far the worst in Europe, and maybe even worse than USA
by far the worst in Europe
In terms of dystopian government overreach or crime rate? Because the crime rate is surely not the worst. The overreach tho is pretty bad. They constantly try to break encryption, they try to force people to ID themselves for online services, incarcerate peaceful protesters for years, etc.
Assange is a great example of how fucking horrible their government can be.
Millions of cameras everywhere. It's been like it for years now...
I suppose there’s a reason a Brit wrote 1984?
So where are all the dorks always talking about the CCP and social credit score now? Britian and America are gonna do the same if not already done
Both things can be bad.
Hi its me, and I condemn it here too and will be taking direct action where possible.
5 Eyes has been simping for China's Golden Shield for as long as China has had it. Now Curtis Yarven and his circle of authoritarian tech bro freaks and 5 corpos in a trench coat are running America. Then the UK gets Apple to remove ADP and now, a nation that already has a hard-on for security cameras decides to expand biometric surveillance in quick succession. Hmm... interesting.
What is this comment trying to say? Do you think the people who are critical of surveillance in China are OK with it in their cities? You're gloating to a strawman
Weird, I just had a bunch of mls tell me just the other day that a comment I made was strawmanning a hypothetical tankie telling me I'm wrong.
And here we see yet another ml strawmanning.
Super Weird.
All I see is a bunch of people saying this is dystopia nightmare shit, and so far the only person I've seen do anything other than call it what it is is the ml comparing this to China.
Surveillance states are bad anywhere, you won't get many people arguing that city wide government facial recognition is a good thing.
Most cities in the US have been running clearview ai facial recognition city wide for several years now.
Don't hurt the normie, mate
He got nothing to hide 🤡