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The current UK government has committed to: 1. ban encryption (any encryption worth its salt) 2. ban anything psychoactive 3. detach us from the European
by dtf 11y ago
The current UK government has committed to:
1. ban encryption (any encryption worth its salt)
2. ban anything psychoactive
3. detach us from the European Convention of Human Rights.
Not one of these things is achievable in practice. This posturing and will amount to nothing but farce in the face of the details.
- JupiterMoon 11y ago1 and 3 were on their manifesto. Given that they have a majority it is only a matter of time before they achieve them. P.S. as I understand it 3 if achieved means that they either have to pass new almost identical legislation compatible with the UN convention on human rights or the UK would be in breach of our UN commitments...
- verbify 11y agoThey have a very slim majority, and some conservatives believe in civil liberties.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoI fear not enough do so. We need 12 + all the rest. I just can't see them not getting this through.
- MistahKoala 11y agoWe'd be in breach of our EU membership, regardless, so far as I know.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoBeing in the EU is of debatable value (I think it's overall a good thing but I understand that there is some bad). Being in the UN is basically a requirement for being a country in the modern world.
- MistahKoala 11y agoI don't disagree, but it seems to be something Cameron is rather keen to hang on to.
- cryoshon 11y agoThey also have banned some forms of pornography. The UK government has made it a priority to restrict and intrusively scrutinize the lives of its citizens, removing their ability to resist. They're rapidly arriving at fascism. The public seems listlessly along for the ride, as usual.
- undefined0 11y agoWhat do you expect? In the days of Henry the 8th, they beat people up when they refused to pay tax. We still have our monarchy, it's British nature to just let our rulers do whatever they want to us, we wont fight back.
- MistahKoala 11y agoThey also have banned some forms of pornography Which ones? The only one I'm aware of is revenge porn (with intent to cause distress).
- dreamdu5t 11y agoAny material judged to be obscene under the current interpretation of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 (could include bestiality, bondage, rape simulation, etc.) People have even been charged for writing stories, though I don't think anyone has ever been successfully prosecuted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Walker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Walker)
- MistahKoala 11y agoHow on earth can that act be deemed as this government banning 'some forms of pornography'? Even R v Walker is 2009 - a year before even the last government. Although UK production and distribution of some acts were banned last year, the pre-Coalition governments were far more draconian with their criminalisation of certain material involving consenting adults.
- ue_ 11y agoDrawn pornography depicting characters deemed to be under the age of 18 is banned - specifically, anything lolicon.