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The UK Online Safety Act returns to Parliament.
It's enabled iffy age-assurance providers, wrongly censored content and shuttered small sites while doing nothing to tackle the dominance of major platforms.
Tell your MP to attend the debate on 15 December β¬οΈ
action.openrightsgroup.org/telβ¦
#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #osa #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
You'd have thought this would be a bigger story.
A Met officer was accused of running a VIP paedophile ring, which included an MP and a judge, that sexually abused young girls in care.
A Met whistleblower claims it was βcovered upβ by the force.
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LBC investigation finds Metropolitan Police 'brushed under the carpet' claims that officer ran a grooming gang
Gang said to have included judge and MPAndy Hughes, LBC Crime Correspondent (LBC)
"The Nerve has mapped the political landscape to illustrate whoβs for digital ID and whoβs against it. And what our research shows is a web of influence that radiates out from Tony Blairβs Institute for Global Change. In the βforβ camp is a grab bag of people who are mostly associated with Blair. And against itβ¦is everyone else"
#DigitalID #UKPolitics #TonyBlair #Oracle
If Keir Starmer's digital ID is the question, Tony Blair is the answer
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If Keir Starmer's digital ID is the question, Tony Blair is the answer
The government's wildly unpopular new policy is backed by Britainβs wildly unpopular former PM. Itβs also a techno-authoritarianβs wet dream, argues Carole CadwalladrThe Nerve
After ChatGPT was introduced to Parliament, MPs suddenly started using phrasing that was previously only common in the US.
They literally don't bother thinking about the words coming out of their mouths *in real time*.
Full story from NYT:
In fact the pundits in the UK will call you 'Anti-Semitic' for boycotting Eurovision, and they will get the platform while opposing voices do not.
#Eurovision #EBU #BoycottEurovision #EBU #Colonialism #Politics #Genocide #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS
It's the first fucking rule, Deborah.
Full story:
Cambridge cosies up to Reform UK
Leaked recordings of a University Council meeting, obtained by Varsity and The Sunday Times, show the VC fearful of Trump-style recriminations if Reform were to win powerVarsity Online
No bark. No bite.
The Information Commissioner's Office (UK) has shied away from enforcing data laws one too many times.
Yesterday over 70 groups and experts joined ORG's demand for an inquiry into the regulator.
Evidence shows that enforcement goes down, breaches go up. We say enough.
openrightsgroup.org/press-releβ¦
#dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #ICO #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #datarights
70+ organisations and experts demand action over failing ICO
Over 70 civil society organisations, academics and data protection experts have urged the Chair of the Select Committee for Science Information and Technology to open an inquiry into the collapse in enforcement activity by the Information Commissioneβ¦Open Rights Group
This is obscene. The vile Shabana Mahmood has confirmed the new immigration rules will be retrospective.
"Under the incoming rules they will have to wait 20 years after they arrived before they can apply for settlement. It means more than 10,000 refugees who were set to qualify for settlement next year will now have to wait a further 15 years before they can settle"
She knew what she was doing when she went to that peaceful demonstration against genocideβ¦β¦ Bloody terrorist
#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #immigration #farageisalyingsackshit #ReformAreUseless #BorisJohnson #TaxTheRich
"People in countries like the UK donβt understand how refugees make decisions because our experiences are so different from theirs. A friend & I decided to risk escaping because we couldnβt face any more torture & beatings. We knew we might be killed but decided to take the risk. I didnβt have any good options.β
#Asylumseekers #UKPolitics
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one manβs harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
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The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one manβs harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Hereβs how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decisionDiane Taylor (The Guardian)
Amnesty Interntional went to the National Police Summit this week. When they asked delegates to talk on camera, no one wanted to.
This summit promised βsafer communitiesβ.
But it delivered something else: speed-dating with surveillance vendors, complete with a visit from the Home Secretary talking up artificial intelligence as the future of policing.
βCrime predictingβ technology creating mass human rights violations.
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#UKPolitics #GlobaliseTheIntifada #ACAB #MassSurveillance
If you want to know whether the police is using this new technology in your area, Amnesty has created an interactive map.
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amnesty.org.uk/interactive-mapβ¦
#UKPolitics #GlobaliseTheIntifada #ACAB #MassSurveillance
Interactive Map
Is your police force using this technology in YOUR area? The map will give you information on whether your local police force uses "crime predicting" technology, and if so, which one.www.amnesty.org.uk
Monster protest round up thread incoming!
Supporting the hunger strikers and calling out the government's criminalisation of protest in Derry yesterday.
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#FreePalestine #UKPolitics #GlobaliseTheIntifada
Kicking out the fash in Bristol yesterday
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#UKPolitics #FuckTheFash #GlobaliseTheIntifada #RefugeesWelcome
Nottingham City Council declared itself an βapartheid-free zoneβ and commited to support divestment during a meeting on Wednesday.
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#FreePalestine #UKPolitics #BoycottIsrael #GlobaliseTheIntifada
A banner drop in London yesterday in support of the political prisoners currently on hunger strike.
Of course the activists were arrested.
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#UKPolitics #FreePalestine #RightToProtest #GlobaliseTheIntifada #WeAreAllPalestineAction
Junior doctors held a protest outside the BBC on Thursday.
On average last year, 14 doctors applied for A&E training place, despite an ongoing chronic shortage of A&E doctors in English hospitals.
This week, the Health Secretary Wes Streeting referred to the doctors' union as a "cabal", and Bridget Phillipson declared she was determined to "smash the unions".
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#UKPolitics #SOSNHS #JoinAUnion
Wael Al Dahdouh, a Palestinian journalist whose entire family has been murdered by the genocidal zionist regime, sent a message of solidarity to the political prisoners in the UK.
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#FreePalestine #WeAreAllPalestineAction #UKPolitics #GlobaliseTheIntifada
