Comment on Apple security updates could be banned by British government

• Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In this case I don’t think it would matter. Labour are pretty authorial in some areas too

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What about lib dems, green, etc? Those aren’t the only 2 parties

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    • theinspectorst@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Totally. We've had a few decades now of successive governments that have taken increasingly centralising attitudes towards privacy and civil liberties - essentially going back to the 1980s.

      But the one bright spot in there was the 2010-15 Coalition, who abolished Labour's biometric ID scheme (people forget now, but the Brown government had passed legislation that meant that, if they'd won the 2010 election, then we would all have needed to register for these), deleted innocent people's DNA records from the police DNA database, halved the maximum length of time the police could detain people without charging them with any crime (from 28 to 14 days - after Labour has earlier tried to increase it to 90), etc. The Coalition was the one truly liberalising government of my lifetime and that's entirely a consequence of the Lib Dems' role in driving its agenda.

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    • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree I vote snp myself

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      • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Independence issues notwithstanding, the SNP seem to have a pretty authoritarian streak of their own, especially under Yousef. Their attitude to free speech is quite lacking.

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  • x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Labour isn’t the only other party in the uk

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    • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No shit it’s almost like I said that in another coment probably over an hour ago responding to someone else making the same comment.

      But the reality of the situation is qe at best have a 2.5 party system with lib dem ensuring the tories get in when Labour can’t quite get an outright majority.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Labour at least have at least one MP not clueless:

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=-O9ux25lWFI

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep. Unfortunately I have no doubt that Labour would also implement something like this too, they didn’t have a good track record for civil liberties when they were in power.

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