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Two-tier encryption in the UK

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  1. failbuffer · · focus · HN ↗
    No need to speculate that the UK government "might" one day become the bad guys: they already arrest over 30 people a day for speech that offends the prevailing political orthodoxy.

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    1. cjrp · · focus · HN ↗
      How many of those 30 are unarguably &quot;bad&quot; posts though? Threats of violence and so forth.
      1. erkt · · focus · HN ↗
        250 years ago some people made some bad posts about throwing some tea into the harbor. Calling for revolution isn&#x27;t a bad post.
        1. monkey_monkey · · focus · HN ↗
          Big fucking difference between saying you want to throw some tea into a harbor vs inciting that hotels containing asylum seekers should be burnt down.
          1. enedil · · focus · HN ↗
            That&#x27;s charitable to say that nobody was saying anything except for &quot;let&#x27;s drown that tea&quot;.
            1. monkey_monkey · · focus · HN ↗
              Weird that you think it was legal for people to say &quot;kill the king&quot; back then.
              1. Catloafdev · · focus · HN ↗
                Buddy you aren&#x27;t addressing the comments that are replying to you.

                You gotta stay on-topic. You keep coming up with random things to compare to that make no sense to anybody but you. Who said it was legal to say &quot;kill the king&quot;?

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