Topic: Scotland
Scotland is increasingly implementing measures that raise significant concerns about free speech and privacy. From controversial digital ID schemes to laws that criminalize certain forms of speech, the actions taken by Scottish authorities reflect a troubling trend towards censorship and surveillance. These developments threaten individual liberties and the right to express dissenting opinions without fear of reprisal.
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Scotland to scan vehicle license plates to enforce “low emission” zones
Vehicle monitoring.
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Scotland stops publishing death and hospitalization data by vaccine status as it’s driving skepticism online
The government ends its transparency in an attempt to reduce online chatter.
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Scotland teases extension of vaccine passport program
Not only is it another attack on civil liberties, businesses say it will harm revenue.
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Scottish club, whose profits were killed by vaccine passports, finds a loophole
Saved by a pedantic rule.
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Errors in Scotland’s vaccine passport stop tens of thousands of vaccinated people from fully participating in society
People are forced to be beholden to the poor technology.
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Vaccine passports would further spread of Covid, UK government report states
A leaked report from the government suggests that suppressing civil liberties would not work to curb the virus.
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A simple screenshot is all it takes to undermine Scotland’s invasive vaccine passport program
The rollout has been a disaster.
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Businesses push back against Scotland’s vaccine passport
Business owners aren’t happy.
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Scotland votes to introduce vaccine passports for nightclubs and other large venues
Despite ministers struggling to define what a nightclub is.
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Scottish lawmaker Joanna Cherry returns to the bar to defend woman accused of “hate crime” over tweet
Fighting for free speech.
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Scottish feminist Marion Millar charged with “hate crime” over “transphobic” tweets
Increasingly common in modern day Britain.