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I don't get why the UK always does this. it's like GSM encryption all over again. Is it a particularly snoop-ey culture stemming from GCHQ or something?
by caycep 1y ago
I don't get why the UK always does this. it's like GSM encryption all over again. Is it a particularly snoop-ey culture stemming from GCHQ or something?
- amelius 1y agoWhy should US have a monopoly on intelligence?
- johnisgood 1y agoIdeally no one should do this.
- skeezyboy 1y agobecause what are you gonna do about it?
- ThrowawayTestr 1y agoThe UK has always been a nanny state. Moore was writing about this decades ago.
- aydyn 1y agoGiven how common Moore is as family name it might be helpful to specify which Moore.
- ThrowawayTestr 1y agoIs there more than one Moore that has written authoritarian fiction set in the UK?
- aydyn 1y agoConsider that "moore UK authoritarianism" turned up zero relevant search results. You shouldn't over-estimate the popularity of your favorite comic book authors.
- rogerrogerr 1y ago“moore authoritarianism fiction author” is a more reasonable search and answers the question. Your search also answered the question, in the fourth result or so.
- sothatsit 1y agoGoogle tailors search results to you. When I searched up their search, it showed me nothing relevant as well. "moore authoritarianism fiction author" worked though.
- aydyn 1y agoYes and regardless the point is its some extremely niche author. The vast majority of anglophones aint gonna know him.
- slavik81 1y agoThe author of V for Vendetta, Watchmen, 300, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
- anadem 1y agoWell I (as a widely-read 81 year old bookworm lol) have never heard of him
- ThrowawayTestr 1y agoWell now's your chance to familiarize yourself with the pop culture of 20 years ago. There's this other great book about UK authoritarianism, it's called 1984 by this little known author George Orwell.
- aydyn 1y agoYes lmao. You think those are literary classics in the same vein as Shakespeare or something?
- ethbr1 1y agoUK citizens don't have a constitutional right to free speech, which tends to bleed over in unhealthy ways to the government prioritizing its own interests over citizens'.
- weavejester 1y ago> UK citizens don't have a constitutional right to free speech They do. The UK has an uncodified constitution, and this includes the Human Rights Act, which guarantees freedom of expression to UK citizens.
- Synaesthesia 1y agoIn practice there isn't freedom of speech. The UK government violates that all the time. Their agencies operate in secrecy and they have raided newspapers offices and destroyed data, arrested journalists and taken people's private information at borders.
- netdevphoenix 1y agoDoesn't this apply to literally every government on earth?
- tpm 1y agoNo. > they have raided newspapers offices and destroyed data, arrested journalists and taken people's private information at borders This does not happen in many countries.
- weavejester 1y agoWhich countries would you hold up as exemplars of free speech?
- tpm 1y agoI would not hold up any country because there are flaws everywhere; and I don't like writing about free speech because it has different meanings for everyone. But even in our puny Slovakia raiding newspaper offices and taking peoples private data at the border is not something that would happen and didn't happen for at least the last 25 years or so, even though we had and currently have horribly bad governments. The situation in the UK is particularly bad I think because the legal situation is a hodgepodge of a missing written constitution, interweaving of the government branches (as I understand, the government can sometimes ignore the courts or is above them), the libel laws, and while still (for now) a member of the ECHR which gives some guarantees, it's rulings are always (many years) after the fact. Crucially, the UK is a very class-based society. The ruling class gets what it wants and it does not want free speech.
- yungporko 1y agoparticularly snoopy culture, yes, stemming from GCHQ, no idea. our government has always felt entitled to breach our privacy and we are equal parts spineless and stupid. average take on this is either "why would you care unless you have something to hide" or "that's a shame, but there's nothing we can do about anything ever." regrettably the latter one may be correct but it'd be nice to see at least some pushback every time this happens.