<story><title>Are we doing this again? Yes, we&apos;re doing this again</title><url>https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/08/investigatory-powers-act-amendment-kings-speech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgaunard</author><text>I always feel somewhat awkward reading blog articles like this.&lt;p&gt;While the author is certainly fighting a good cause, their writing style is very self-righteous and shows lack of self-awareness. Is it working in politics that makes one so jaded and fond of their own prose?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lewispollard</author><text>As a UK citizen, I feel jaded and bitter about this topic, as the government have been pushing to &amp;quot;ban encryption&amp;quot; in one form or another for... it feels like decades now? And each time they&amp;#x27;re advised against it or unable to get it into law, they draw up another proposal and try to sneak it in another way. It feels like one of these days, if they keep trying, they&amp;#x27;ll manage get it past the experts&amp;#x2F;lawyers somehow and it&amp;#x27;ll doom our privacy for a long time. So in the writing, I don&amp;#x27;t detect over-reaching self-righteousness or a lack of self-awareness - more, awareness of just how tiring and arduous this push for &amp;quot;encryption bans&amp;quot; is getting to everyone who understands the implications of it, and how frustrating it is to have to repeatedly deal with this kind of insidiousness in government.</text></comment>
<story><title>Are we doing this again? Yes, we&apos;re doing this again</title><url>https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/08/investigatory-powers-act-amendment-kings-speech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgaunard</author><text>I always feel somewhat awkward reading blog articles like this.&lt;p&gt;While the author is certainly fighting a good cause, their writing style is very self-righteous and shows lack of self-awareness. Is it working in politics that makes one so jaded and fond of their own prose?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atoav</author><text>Everything sounds silly if you read it to yourself in a silly voice. The whole thing did not come across self righteous at all to me. Maybe it is because I follow the developments in net politics enough to know that the cynical undertones here are totally warranted.&lt;p&gt;Like in Germany, where the supreme court told the government &lt;i&gt;twice&lt;/i&gt; that storing all communication data of their citicens without any cause or court order is totally illegal. Guess what: they try it again right now.&lt;p&gt;The UK government demonstrated in similar fashion that they are not just incompetent, but act with incompetent mallice. Acting above them is hard to avoid, because they make it very hard not to.&lt;p&gt;One could wonder why it is always the people fighting the good causes that have to act perfectly and self-aware, while the bad actors are given all the slack in the world constantly, while they lie, deceive and twist everything that comes in front of them. &amp;quot;Oh you naive fool, you actually want to be GOOD? Let me find a hair in your soup to validate my own fatalistic position!&amp;quot;</text></comment>