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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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Americans with disabilities act in England? How does that work?
Yeah, I skimmed it, and read UK as US.
Sorry, I have dual citizenship and sometimes conflate the two. Deleted my comment as erroneous.
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
The last one hasn’t ended yet
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.
This is like when online community moderators ban discussion of politics.
Everything is political. If you ban politics, you can take action against anyone
Like that traffic light on a rural Russian intersection that is always red
or like in America, where if the cops want to kick your door in all they have to do is say they smelled something and then it’s on you to prove they didn’t
This is just the first step at making protests illegal.
I think you mean the ninety first step.
Yeah, no, we’re long past that point
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_information/pcsc-policing-act-protest-rights/
by decades
https://socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-culture/police-brutality-against-striking-miners-and-cover-ups-laid-bare
centuries…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_MassacreThe first step? They’ve been on this path for years
These must be western values we keep hearing so much about.
God you’re obnoxious. You got a .txt file you’re pasting these completely unoriginal russian-bot-tier zingers from?
Everyone less fascist than me is a russian bot
Average sh.ithead
Regardless if the guy is pro-Russia or not, banning masks in protests is very much an authoritarian move.
Yeah we really need to step it up. Sadly we’ll never live up to the shining example of Tiananmen Square. Peak human rights!
Ah I was just kidding, you probably mean the ability for Soviets to assemble. Like that one time they all banded together to put an end to…the Soviet Union. In that case yes we have much to aspire to!
Wow what an amazing counterpoint you’ve mustered there.
likewise
that has been forbidden in Germany for years
What did they do during covid ? Arrest both mask wearers and nonmaskers ?
To police, that’s a feature, not a bug.
Because Germany is here to set a good example right?
Of course it is, it’s fucking Germany.
What if you’re feeling unwell?
JAIL!
I would do it anyway in mass. I want 100 people to show up somewhere with masks.
100,000 people. With 100, they’ll just take as many as they can. With 100k, they just have to let the sea wash over them and hope they aren’t swept out with it.
First they force you to wear masks in public, then they ban it. Fucking clowns.
Nah, not this rhetoric. Masks were mandatory because of COVID, and that was the right move. Get out of here with your bad-by-association argument. Making masks mandatory then was the right move. Banning masks during protests is not the right move. Both these facts are not mutually exclusive.
When you make such weak, bad faith arguments, you only give fuel for the other side to break down even your valid arguments.
There are plenty of reasons to call UK clowns, but masks during this centuries worst version of the black death (so far) isn’t one of them.
I think I need to clarify.
I support mask wearing, I wore one despite being legally exempt on health grounds (autism).
The fact is covid is still here, if anything wearing masks at a large scale gathering like a protest is still a very good idea on health grounds, especially for those with weakened immune systems, the unvaccinated, etc. It’s utterly mad to ban a protection device you once mandated when the problem it protects from never went away.
Antifa ain’t happy about that.
Face paint.
Face paint it is.
Don’t forget to import you some Faygo.
As someone who used to run in the juggalo crowd, idk man Faygo is perfect for some bigger scale resistence bullshit haha
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Doesn’t affect facial recognition tech, which I think is why this passed
There are designs for face paint specifically to defeat facial recognition.
There are designs for face paint that try to defeat some shitty facial recognition systems. That shit isn’t going to work with tech paid for with Police budgets
You bring up a good point. What qualifies as a mask? Do fake beards and mustaches count? What about religious face coverings? What about people who have prosthetic noses? I have a feeling this is going to be a tricky one for them to enforce in any sort of reasonable way.
A big thing you can hide is the distance between your eyes. Cover one of them with hair or something and any FR tech won’t work as well. You could also have a bunch of infrared led’s on your hat or something then the camera wouldn’t see shit. There’s a video out there that’s an interview with an ex-CIA agent or something that talks about disguises and whatnot.
V for Vendetta wants their timeline back.
A little from V, a little from children of men
Well that should put us back on track as a nation, practical solutions for our modern problems. What a relief.
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.
This but unironically
No part of this was ironic I assure you.
Yea I really do think.
Curious, where are you from? I like it when people from other countries use y’all, especially when the apostrophe is in the right place 🙂
Im Canadian which I’ll be the first to admit is basically American.
in the fallout universe the united states annex canada
You guys better be careful. From what I’ve heard Canada and Australia aren’t exaclty shining beacons of freedom as of late. Love you both tho
Oh 100%. Shits pretty bad here at times. I’m moving out of country soon hopefully though.
Where to?
Jus’ so ya know, “y’all” pops up on my phone’s autocorrect. I wouldn’t reckon it’s all that reliable of a metric, so don’t go puttin’ too much faith in it.
Heh, I see what y’all did there…
Face paint and glasses to break up facial recognition
No need for glasses. Just make sure the face paint is done dazzle style.
I wonder where that energy was in the 852nd month of “two weeks to flatten the curve”. 🤔
