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The government did get more than third of the votes. So this is the choice of democratically elected government and the voters and as such should be followed.
by Ekaros 2y ago
The government did get more than third of the votes. So this is the choice of democratically elected government and the voters and as such should be followed.
- kazinator 2y agoI have to give you a full up vote since they don't come in thirds.
- Nasrudith 2y ago[flagged]
- eadmund 2y agoOf course, the U.K. is rather famously not a republic, but rather a democratic monarchy. Now, if only the King would do his job and refuse assent to the Parliament when it does something wrong.
- card_zero 2y agoThe King is only two years younger than Trump, and has cancer. His main interests are watercolor painting, traditional architecture, homeopathy, the Goon Show, and vegetables. He was never likely to do anything confrontational.* I wonder if a future King William might try something like this, though. * Come to think of it, Hitler liked three or four of those things too, so this is less demonstrative of character than I imagine.
- CoastalCoder 2y agoHuh, I guess 1/3 isn't rational! /j
- pjc50 2y agoThis sort of policy comes from the Home Office regardless of who gets elected. The spooks always want everything. You could probably make an ECHR argument about it, but even Germany who are most paranoid about Stasi-like behavior have some sort of rights carveout for law enforcement purposes.
- jkaplowitz 2y agoGermany hasn't imposed any similar ban on end-to-end encryption without a law enforcement backdoor. My configured iPhone region, configured Apple ID region, and physical location are all in Germany right now, and I was able to enable Apple's Advanced Data Protection here without a problem. Yes, German law enforcement does have a rights carveout, but not nearly as big of one as in the UK (or the US).
- didntcheck 2y agoYes. Unfortunately those who thought a Labour government would be any less likely to deploy surveillance law than the Conservatives clearly do not have a very long memory. A pervasive obsession with snooping and controlling people's private affairs is one thing the two parties are quite united on
- stranded22 2y agoThis was before the current government.