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- Comment on U.K. Lawmakers Call for Ban on Camming, 'E-pimping' 2 days ago:
“Law enforcement and organisations with designated regulatory powers and functions must be able to access all content hosted and streamed by pornography platforms for investigative and enforcement purposes,” notes another recommendation.
Lmfao so the true purpose is free porn for cops.
- Comment on Phones to be banned from pupils' bags or pockets under stricter rules for schools in England 2 days ago:
Yeah I know, the post is reasonable. If the government pays for the bags, anyway.
The comment I replied to was making out that having kids lock their phones away during class was akin to denying them access to any knowledge that might contradict the teacher.
- Comment on Phones to be banned from pupils' bags or pockets under stricter rules for schools in England 3 days ago:
Lmao you think kids sit on their phones scrolling through ebooks or something?
- Comment on Man who stole ambulance with patient inside jailed 3 days ago:
Cathinones are the “designer drugs” of like the 70s and 80s that are somewhat similar to amphetamines, but maybe more of a stimulant.
- Comment on In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life. 3 days ago:
That sounds like a different injunction?
This injunction was by Russell Brand and against his accuser, Sylvie Berki, who couldn’t afford a lawyer and represented herself against him, and the judge basically steamrolled her and bankrupted her. The injunction explicitly spelled out who she can discuss it with and the list is very short.
It does seem like this specific judge had a problem with litigants-in-person, and he was acting against specific guidance on how to treat them. Regardless, his injunction against her still stands.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
“Visible differences” encompasses everyone.
She has a condition and wants to take the opportunity to highlight the difficulties people with it go through.Neither of these imply malice towards trans people. They’re neutral statements.
Maybe she does feel that way, maybe not; she hasn’t really let on either way.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Sure, but a business isn’t going to be able to do that. The law isn’t unfairly discriminating against businesses, aside from giving them a near impossible task. It’s people affected by these laws who would have to take it to court.
- Comment on Burnham’s homelessness pledge to ‘get everyone in for Christmas’ in jeopardy 4 days ago:
Well at least he isn’t breaking any election campaign promises.
- Comment on In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life. 4 days ago:
- Comment on 4 days ago:
This is in England.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Surely the law doesn’t require them to hire someone to police the toilets.
It pretty much does. Not specifically to have someone dedicated to check everyone, but they have to take reasonable measures and a member of staff speaking up would fall under that.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
The law requires businesses to police toilets somewhat.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It’s close, but sometimes women really do need the whole room as private gendered space, eg to wash blood off clothing.
The best solution is that each stall has its own sink, but that isn’t usually practicable as it takes up more space and reduces the total number of stalls. Five Guys manage it, though.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Better an island than a whole fucking continent of more violent TERFs.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I don’t see where she gave any such negative opinion? Closest was she said she understood from a business point of view, as in, a business needs to follow the law.
- Comment on Government 'looking seriously' at banning under-16s from Vinted and eBay 4 days ago:
This was the intention all along.
- Comment on Government 'looking seriously' at banning under-16s from Vinted and eBay 4 days ago:
… but why?
- Comment on In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life. 4 days ago:
Yes but she can’t discuss it with her MP.
- Comment on In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life. 5 days ago:
Somewhat, but it also seems Mr Justice Jay is just an asshole to litigants in person - in direct contradiction to the rules he was supposed to follow.
Mr Justice Jay does not have a good record of dealing with litigants-in-person. Two years later, in a different case, he behaved so poorly that the Court of Appeal and then the Supreme Court found that he’d bullied a litigant-in-person. The Supreme Court found that he had aimed a “barrage of hostility” at the litigant-in-person, and “harassed and intimidated him in ways which surely would never have occurred if the claimant had been represented”.
- Comment on In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life. 5 days ago:
We’d expect the judgment would contain the discussion of whether these restrictions were necessary and proportionate, and whether they were compatible with the exclusions in the Protection from Harassment Act. It does not. A lawyer would surely have raised these arguments, but Ms Berki of course had no lawyer.
Without going through the appeals with a fine toothed comb, I couldn’t say whether she raised these arguments along the way or if this is just an observation of the author. However she never really had an appeal, she was denied the chance to any full hearing at any stage over the last 12 years.
- Comment on Lanarkshire AI datacentre to fully rely on National Grid despite renewables claim 5 days ago:
Now DataVita, which was supposed to bring 3,400 jobs to Lanarkshire by building a 500MW datacentre
How the hell is a single data centre expected to bring 3,400 jobs?! Sounds like DataVita’s claims across the board need to be reviewed.
- Comment on The UK has its own network of Flock-style AI cameras. So where’s the outrage? 5 days ago:
Awesome, that’s pretty much what I thought.
Just for clarity though, does the commercial ANPR automatically provide data to police, or is that data only available upon a lawful request with a court order?
Also, the article mentions data being kept for a year. Is this a requirement for commercial ANPR?
I’ll also add that requests to the public DVLA database are only lawful if they have actual need to request that information, eg to send a ticket for a breach in parking terms. They can’t access the name and address linked to every plate that drives by the camera.
- Comment on In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life. 5 days ago:
The thing is the injunction also prevents anyone who knows about it from publicising it. Even taxpolicy.org.uk here are on very shaky ground, and they explicitly didn’t publish parts of the order.
- Comment on In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life. 5 days ago:
Don’t forget the bit where it explicitly names the only doctors she’s allowed to speak to about this, who don’t work at her GP surgery anymore. So she can’t speak to a doctor about any of this except in an emergency.
- Comment on In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life. 5 days ago:
And the appeal court judges.
- Comment on In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life. 5 days ago:
Gotta love it when they say behaviour that any reasonable man would find contemptible is contempt of court.
Mr Justice Jay should consider his position. Same of the judges who sat on the 3 appeals she’s been denied over the last 12 years.
- Comment on Andy Burnham's Labour follows through and puts Israel above the UK. 6 days ago:
The large majority of PMs have been appointed by the party mid-term, through the democratic process the party established for that. However, nearly all of them were actually voted on by the party MP’s or the party members, against other potential party leaders. Burnham is unique in that he stood unopposed, so there was never really any vote on him.
Labour’s process for selecting the party leader is, overall, a democratic process, but the path that Burnham took through it isn’t really all that democratic. This is especially true because it would be party members - the public - who would’ve voted. The same party members who chose Corbyn in the past, they were denied any say over Burnham because the party’s “democratic process” bypasses them in this circumstance.
The only people who voted for Burnham to be PM were the handful of MP’s who nominated him. And yet, he harps on about having a “mandate” to enact policy, as if he took the party through a general election and the public had thereby told him what we want.
The interests he represents, who gave him a mandate, are apparently not those of the general public.
- Comment on The UK has its own network of Flock-style AI cameras. So where’s the outrage? 1 week ago:
I was thinking on this when I wrote my comment above, and I’m not quite sure.
Either there’s a muddying of terms, where you have ANPR as a technology (which anyone could implement), and the police have their own network of ANPR cameras.
Or private businesses submit their data to an ANPR database that the police maintain.Regardless, there’s not one big private network of ANPR cameras that the government have permitted to be installed on public land.
- Comment on The UK has its own network of Flock-style AI cameras. So where’s the outrage? 1 week ago:
You can also carry knives around for work, or various other reasons. It’s not like chef’s knives are illegal, and so long as you have a valid reason for moving it from A to B it shouldn’t be a problem. Unless you start brandishing it or something.
- Comment on The UK has its own network of Flock-style AI cameras. So where’s the outrage? 1 week ago:
Law enforcement in the US extensively use the private sector to bypass the courts and get around having to get a warrant.
