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UK: Parish councillor gets police visit for posting “trans rights are very, very boring”
Willgoss was questioned over a possible “public order offense” for his Facebook post.
UK Culture Secretary boasts about shadowy “anti-disinformation” unit; “daily we have contact with the online providers”
The unit provides no transparency.
UK proposes increase in police surveillance drones to “protect” women
Surveillance state policing.
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UK gets massive free speech win as Court of Appeal rules police’s definition of a “hate incident” is unlawful and had “chilling effect” on speech
Occasionally the courts get something right.
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Google’s new “privacy sandbox” will increase privacy but grow Google’s market dominance
Privacy vs further monopoly.
Microsoft is accused of “stealth takeover” of UK health service
Typical Microsoft strategy.
Facebook’s Nick Clegg complains that UK censorship proposals have an exemption for journalists
As if the “Online Safety Bill” could get any worse.
The UK wants to make knowingly distributing seriously harmful misinformation an offense
One of the most restrictive speech proposals in the West.
UK Justice Secretary proposes new free speech law
The proposals are contradictory in spirit to other proposed censorship legislation such as the Online Safety Bill.
UK PM faces rebellion over vaccine passports as opposing conservative MPs is more then the government’s majority
100 conservative lawmakers opposed the attack on civil liberties but it wasn’t enough to stop the law from passing.