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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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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 60 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is the UK turning into a dictatorship or an undeveloped country ? How is independent press doing over there ?

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

More like fascist-adjacent. And we started the process of underdeveloping ourselves when the fascist-adjacent leaders persuaded the terminally ignorant that Brexit would be great when it was obvious it was going to lead exactly where it is leading right now.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 32 points 10 months ago

dictatorship or an undeveloped country

Right-Wing Government: why not both?