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All the usual suspects are suddenly experts in Mental Health, none of them are reflecting the reality, but it's easier to blame the Disabled that Tax The Rich, isn't it?
Sharing this also for "Tony Blair, whose transformation into know-nothing golf-club pontificator is still startling after all this time "
This is what UKGOV wanted to do with Rwanda. No country in the West is going to condem this, are they?
They want us to know that this can happen to us too, if we stand in the way of the Rich exploiting us and the planet.
![mago 15.57 GMT
The Trump administration sent 250 people, who were mainly Venezuelan
and alleged to be gang members, to El Salvador, where the government has
opened its prisons to deportees from the United States.
Human Rights Watch warns that conditions in the prisons are dangerous and
inhumane:
44 Detainees in El Salvador’s prison system are cut off from the outside world
and denied any meaningful legal recourse. While [president Nayib] Bukele
publicizes his prisons as “the best in the world,” the reality is very different. We
have interviewed people released from these prisons and dozens who have
relatives in jail. One after the other, we received and verified accounts of dismal
detention conditions, torture and death.
One of the people we spoke with was an 18-year-old construction worker who
said that police beat prison newcomers with batons for an hour. He said that
when he denied being a gang member, they sent him to a dark basement cell
with 320 detainees, where prison guards and other detainees beat him every
day. One guard beat him so severely once, he said, that it broke a rib.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/178/601/450/038/229/original/7429c2abe6643332.png "mago 15.57 GMT
The Trump administration sent 250 people, who were mainly Venezuelan
and alleged to be gang members, to El Salvador, where the government has
opened its prisons to deportees from the United States.
Human Rights Watch warns that conditions in the prisons are dangerous and
inhumane:
44 Detainees in El Salvador’s prison system are cut off from the outside world
and denied any meaningful legal recourse. While [president Nayib] Bukele
publicizes his prisons as “the best in the world,” the reality is very different. We
have interviewed people released from these prisons and dozens who have
relatives in jail. One after the other, we received and verified accounts of dismal
detention conditions, torture and death.
One of the people we spoke with was an 18-year-old construction worker who
said that police beat prison newcomers with batons for an hour. He said that
when he denied being a gang member, they sent him to a dark basement cell
with 320 detainees, where prison guards and other detainees beat him every
day. One guard beat him so severely once, he said, that it broke a rib.")
There's still time to put pressure on the UK government.
The UK Secretary of State has the power to exempt small, safely moderated websites from the Online Safety duties.
We need urgent change to protect net plurality, rather than further consolidating power in monopoly platforms. We need competition for a safer Internet.
Write to your MP (UK) #SaveOurSites 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
The UK Online Safety Act comes into effect today.
Its onerous duties may cause many small sites, blogs and fedi instances to shut down or geoblock UK users when faced with potential fines and penalties.
This won't keep children safe. It'll benefit large platforms like Facebook and X that are laying waste to content moderation.
The Register · It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board
Starmer: We can't tax the rich, that would hurt the economy
Also Starmer: The British people have spoken* and Brexit is final no matter how much damage that's done and continues to do to the economy
* What the British people said was, a third wanted to Leave, a third wanted to Remain, and a third didn't know or didn't care. Also, the year after, the British people said we wanted a Blue Tory government so you should resign, Keir. What's that? Changing views? Also, in the last election, 80% of the electorate didn't vote for you so the British people speaking doesn't seem to be high on your actual list of policy drivers mate
Report: The UK Foreign Office refuses to condemn deadly Israeli attack on British charity in Gaza
The Israeli army killed eight UK humanitarian aid workers in a drone strike on northern Gaza on Saturday.
The UK Foreign office said it was “deeply saddened” by the attack.
"Wes Streeting has denied that #Labour is "changing into the Tories" with its welfare reforms, amid speculation disability benefits could be cut."
Sky · Streeting denies Labour 'changing into Tories' amid questions over disability benefit cuts
uk pol, uk housing, real talk now
remember, 1 million uk houses are totally empty and held as speculative asset/collateral. 1 million more houses already have planning permissions.
it's never about houses, it;s always something else. in this case, i assume starmer just hates spiders. well fuck you starmer 
The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.
There’s a simple solution:
The duties start TOMORROW – Write to your MP 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
"US politicians and privacy campaigners are calling for the private hearing between Apple and the UK government regarding its alleged encryption-busting order to be aired in public."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/apple_uk_encryption_hearing/
"Colloquially, the IPA is referred to as the Snooper's Charter since its aims are to legally empower intelligence agencies with greater surveillance powers."
The Register · Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash
Mr "Make Brexit Work" there still hoping Gilead isn't Gilead and Trump can be held to his word, like Brexit was a great idea for the country.
This deluded fuck is not the person we need leading the country right now, we all know he's a Neville.
How long must we indulge this wet, Quisling fuck? This isn't a fucking game!
"What if we gave Appeasement one more try? Is there some middle ground with Fascism I can inhabit?"" - Starmer
Will you join over 1.9k people who’ve signed our petition to keep what’s stored on Apple iCloud encrypted?
The UK government is gambling with our security and playing into the hands of hackers and criminals.
Send a message: save encryption before more services are hit with technical notices.
Sign and share now
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
38 DegreesKeep our Apple data encryptedIt is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud.
Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure. It’s essential for being safe online when sending messages, shopping, doing online banking – and for storing things safely in the cloud. With the Cabinet Office estimating the cost of Cyber Crime at £21BN a year to our economy, we can’t afford to make our...
‘Absurd’
When you have the press and civil society camped outside the courtroom, the secret might be out 
Even so, we’re still denied the reasons why the UK government wants to take a battering ram to our security and privacy.
It shows contempt for the public interest in the Apple encryption case.
Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.
We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.
URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"
The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.
The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.
Other services will be hit.
https://therecord.media/google-refuses-to-deny-it-received-uk-tcn
Sign our petition 
therecord.mediaGoogle refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK governmentU.S. lawmakers say Google has refused to deny that it received a Technical Capability Notice from the U.K. — a mechanism to access encrypted messages that Apple reportedly received.
The battle for encryption happens TODAY. Your right to privacy and security will be decided behind your back.
We call for the hearing to be made public.
Encryption must be protected from this slippery slope.
Sign and share our petition to have your say
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
38 DegreesKeep our Apple data encryptedIt is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud.
Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure. It’s essential for being safe online when sending messages, shopping, doing online banking – and for storing things safely in the cloud. With the Cabinet Office estimating the cost of Cyber Crime at £21BN a year to our economy, we can’t afford to make our...
"This is a significant test for the battle between law enforcement and technology.”
Holding the Apple case in secret makes the legal process more cloak and dagger, less scales and sword.
It makes it harder to challenge the UK government's order to break encryption and creates a dangerous precedent.
This case sets the stage for more shady encryption-breaking orders to be made.
The Guardian · What could Apple’s high court challenge mean for data protection?
The UK government wants to be able to access anything, anywhere, any time — from your pics to your docs.
It begins with Apple. Other services will be next. That's why we must take a stand NOW!
Sign and share our petition
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
38 DegreesKeep our Apple data encryptedIt is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud.
Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure. It’s essential for being safe online when sending messages, shopping, doing online banking – and for storing things safely in the cloud. With the Cabinet Office estimating the cost of Cyber Crime at £21BN a year to our economy, we can’t afford to make our...