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UK Gvmt Say Mask Wearing At Protests Will Soon Be Illegal (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"Protesters who wear masks could face arrest, up to a month in jail and a £1,000 fine under proposed measures that human rights campaigners claim are pandering to “culture war nonsense”.

Police in England and Wales will be given the power to arrest people if they are wearing face coverings at specific demonstrations, the Home Office has said."

Been a bad 18 months or so for privacy in the UK. Online Safety Bill passed, the right to take strike action curtailed, people in receipt of benefits (including disabled people) will soon (as from 2025) have their bank accounts open to the government, the right to protest curtailed and now this.

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[–] li10@lemmy.ml 149 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I see no hope for this country. Things are just getting worse and worse every year, how long can this keep going?

It’s pretty bad now, but I seriously worry what things will be like in 20 or so years.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

World

FTFY

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I lived in the UK not that long ago and I lived and live elsewhere in Europe.

It really is a bigger problem in the UK than most of Europe, probably because it apes the US so hard and somehow combines some of its worst shit with their very own local shit (classism, very low social mobility, entrenched ancient elites, post-imperial hangover and other) rather than combining qualities.

It's mainly Anglon-Saxon countries that are speed running the rise of Fascism, not most of the World.

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

Tories on a any% speed run to the government from Children of Men, while the left is worried about which way Kier decides to lean that afternoon

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

Yall need to grab some pitchforks