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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Genocide Island going back to its roots.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

it will be interesting to see if we ever get to a point during the next inevitable global pandemic where masks are compulsory in some places and illegal in others

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

that has been forbidden in Germany for years

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Of course it is, it's fucking Germany.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What did they do during covid ? Arrest both mask wearers and nonmaskers ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

To police, that's a feature, not a bug.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What if you're feeling unwell?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would do it anyway in mass. I want 100 people to show up somewhere with masks.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

large imagemarker bandits

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Well that should put us back on track as a nation, practical solutions for our modern problems. What a relief.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Man its like the UK is an authoritarian shit hole or something. Y'all need weapons and resistance. And no, I'm not American before someone asks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Curious, where are you from? I like it when people from other countries use y'all, especially when the apostrophe is in the right place 🙂

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Im Canadian which I'll be the first to admit is basically American.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As if the EU is some kind of leader in freedom. 🤔

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess it's better than the UK for now, and there have been no attempted fascist coups for quite a few decades now. Even if we're totally glass-half-empty, the EU is at least slamming on the brakes on the descent, while the UK is tearing their brakes off, and the US is deliberating whether using the brakes would hurt rich people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Obviously, world governments are the answer to all our problems.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

dictatorship or an undeveloped country

Right-Wing Government: why not both?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Face paint and glasses to break up facial recognition

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

No need for glasses. Just make sure the faces paint is done dazzle style.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is an admittance that you have no right to protest.

What are.you going to do about it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You've got to understand the 'average' British psyche at this point in history. The majority simply don't care that people they see as troublemakers and/or scroungers are having their rights dismantled. They lack the empathy to give a shit for these people and they lack the foresight to see that it'll be their rights gone one day too. What stirs the average british gammon off their collective arses these days is the rumour there might be an immigrant in a hotel somewhere or that a drag queen exists.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

You described all of the western world since the passing of the US's 1996 Telecommunications Act which gave all the radical fascists free rein to spread nonstop fascist propaganda over thousands upon thousands of talk shows and now through the internet.

The only reasonable response is violence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Prote—ahhh nearly got me!

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