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"Protesters who wear masks could face arrest, up to a month in jail and a £1,000 fine under proposed measures that human rights campaigners claim are pandering to “culture war nonsense”.

Police in England and Wales will be given the power to arrest people if they are wearing face coverings at specific demonstrations, the Home Office has said."

Been a bad 18 months or so for privacy in the UK. Online Safety Bill passed, the right to take strike action curtailed, people in receipt of benefits (including disabled people) will soon (as from 2025) have their bank accounts open to the government, the right to protest curtailed and now this.

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[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 184 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This is just the first step at making protests illegal.

[–] li10@lemmy.ml 152 points 9 months ago (17 children)

I see no hope for this country. Things are just getting worse and worse every year, how long can this keep going?

It’s pretty bad now, but I seriously worry what things will be like in 20 or so years.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago (20 children)
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[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago

Tories on a any% speed run to the government from Children of Men, while the left is worried about which way Kier decides to lean that afternoon

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[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 103 points 9 months ago (21 children)

Hmm...I wonder which political spectrum the current government belongs to...

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Fuck the Tories right, but I also don't see Starmer opposing any of this.

[–] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 47 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Starmer is like like 1 cm left of rishi

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 18 points 9 months ago

A μm at best.

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[–] illi@lemm.ee 100 points 9 months ago

So if someone doesn't want to get sick for being in a huge crowd, they get arrested? Truly genius.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 96 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Remember remember the fifth of November,

When Guy Fawkes took the fall.

Be sure to wear your mask from now on,

They can't arrest us all

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 96 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Oi you got a loicence for that mask?

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 19 points 9 months ago

I do but ye cant see mi face on the loicence photo anyways

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 72 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Fake beards, wigs , sunglasses and presumably face paint should be ok

Stay safe protestors. Leave id and phone at home, don't hold anything that could be interpreted as a weapon, and carry a "your rights" card to help you remember what to do if the police try to take away your freedom.

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 9 months ago
  1. Don't talk to Police

  2. Don't talk to police

[–] FeetiePJs@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It looks like this would apply to any item used to conceal one's identity. So, it's possible that all of those things could be included.

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[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 63 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's like they think V for Vendetta was a blueprint for how to run a utopia.

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[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 62 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Man its like the UK is an authoritarian shit hole or something. Y'all need weapons and resistance. And no, I'm not American before someone asks.

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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 60 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is the UK turning into a dictatorship or an undeveloped country ? How is independent press doing over there ?

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 9 months ago (6 children)

More like fascist-adjacent. And we started the process of underdeveloping ourselves when the fascist-adjacent leaders persuaded the terminally ignorant that Brexit would be great when it was obvious it was going to lead exactly where it is leading right now.

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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 32 points 9 months ago

dictatorship or an undeveloped country

Right-Wing Government: why not both?

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it's important to relate the latter part to the former - beyond the privacy issues with not being allowed to wear masks (and having our bank accounts invaded), there is also the health aspect, and disallowing masks is one sure fire way to keep disabled people from assembling, since, you know, we don't want to get covid, being significantly more likely to die from it (not necessarily because of the illness, but because our lives are deemed less worth saving).

The lack of any mask mandates already excludes disabled people from so many public spaces, this is just another way to keep us (as well as others, you know, first they came for..) from fighting back. as they strip us of every last human right.

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[–] TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is an admittance that you have no right to protest.

What are.you going to do about it?

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

You've got to understand the 'average' British psyche at this point in history. The majority simply don't care that people they see as troublemakers and/or scroungers are having their rights dismantled. They lack the empathy to give a shit for these people and they lack the foresight to see that it'll be their rights gone one day too. What stirs the average british gammon off their collective arses these days is the rumour there might be an immigrant in a hotel somewhere or that a drag queen exists.

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[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Prote—ahhh nearly got me!

[–] LKPU26@lemmy.ml 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are they going to arrest Muslim women with face coverings?

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago

Burka-ban has already been introduced in Austria. Didn't really work because that was just before covid but they sure as shit tried.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 28 points 9 months ago

But they already made protest illegal.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

They need the facial recognition software to do it's thing so they can make sure life gets difficult for anyone conscious of their actions.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

V for Vendetta wants their timeline back.

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[–] erranto@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I have never seen a cucked nation like the UK in the world before. u guys have no resistance what so ever ! the french should have bought you some freedoms a few centuries ago.

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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 months ago

Genocide Island going back to its roots.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

it will be interesting to see if we ever get to a point during the next inevitable global pandemic where masks are compulsory in some places and illegal in others

[–] Pssdoff@beehaw.org 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They want it to be illegal to both wear and not to wear a mask so that they can selectivity enforce arbitrary laws against whomever they wish.

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[–] Rin@lemm.ee 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fuck this country. I'm moving out.

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 20 points 9 months ago

Well that should put us back on track as a nation, practical solutions for our modern problems. What a relief.

[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago (9 children)
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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 16 points 9 months ago

Does it apply to FFP2 respirators?

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