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Exactly, literally every time I see these articles I just think of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wiki

Exactly, literally every time I see these articles I just think of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite... I remember being questioned on terrorism charges outside St. Pauls Cathedral, alongside my friends by about 20 police with 4 vans. They told us that we need to leave London (lived outside of it) and they will watch us to ensure that we leave, if we do not then there will be further problems for us.

neilsense 5y ago
What did you do to elicit that response?
theelous3 5y ago
1. How can you say this without giving more context? 2. Presuming you aren't a terrorist or doing something so almost terroristish you were violating a public order statute - why wouldn't you just refuse?
- redis_mlc 5y ago
  If you live in the US, then the UK will seem strange to you: - UK has pre-crime policing - anybody can file a hate charge, etc. based on socials - self-identifying trans people (a man claiming to be a woman) are sent to women's prisons automatically. You can guess what happens then - Disneyland for male predators. (This is starting to happen in the US.)
- melomal 5y ago
  Terrorist Police in London just hit a little different. Machine guns, 5 police to 1 person, all separated apart. Refusing to do so was just not worth the back and forth, generally speaking we would have given them a hard time. But essentially we were out for a road trip and a friend of mine happens to be a videographer. We were around St. Paul's later at night with 2 cars a few guys and a couple of ladies. My friend was filming the Cathedral and a patrol drove passed and turnaround. They asked to see what was on video, they saw it, a couple of friends turned into deer in headlights with their responses and that's when they called backup. I tried to keep the producer which they gave me with all the details etc but haven't been able to find it. Odd experience. I couldn't be any lesson 'terrorist' looking if I tried.

neilsense 5y ago

What did you do to elicit that response?

theelous3 5y ago

1. How can you say this without giving more context? 2. Presuming you aren't a terrorist or doing something so almost terroristish you were violating a public order statute - why wouldn't you just refuse?

redis_mlc 5y ago
If you live in the US, then the UK will seem strange to you: - UK has pre-crime policing - anybody can file a hate charge, etc. based on socials - self-identifying trans people (a man claiming to be a woman) are sent to women's prisons automatically. You can guess what happens then - Disneyland for male predators. (This is starting to happen in the US.)
melomal 5y ago
Terrorist Police in London just hit a little different. Machine guns, 5 police to 1 person, all separated apart. Refusing to do so was just not worth the back and forth, generally speaking we would have given them a hard time. But essentially we were out for a road trip and a friend of mine happens to be a videographer. We were around St. Paul's later at night with 2 cars a few guys and a couple of ladies. My friend was filming the Cathedral and a patrol drove passed and turnaround. They asked to see what was on video, they saw it, a couple of friends turned into deer in headlights with their responses and that's when they called backup. I tried to keep the producer which they gave me with all the details etc but haven't been able to find it. Odd experience. I couldn't be any lesson 'terrorist' looking if I tried.