<story><title>UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnfargbl</author><text>Who is the evil bond villain behind this dastardly plan, exactly?&lt;p&gt;The UK government has made the practicalities of everyday life extremely miserable through a combination of&lt;p&gt;(a) ham-fisted political decisions (Brexit referendum held for party-political reasons, followed by the multi-decade car crash that is still ongoing); plus&lt;p&gt;(b) plain and simple &lt;i&gt;not giving a single shit&lt;/i&gt; about the majority of the population, because it isn&amp;#x27;t in the personal interests of most of the current set of ruling MPs to give said shit.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no overarching devious plan to enslave us all, here. It&amp;#x27;s just classic honest-to-goodness incompetence and disinterest.</text></item><item><author>trackflak</author><text>It seems like the government playbook reads as follows:&lt;p&gt;- Make the practicalities of everyday life extremely miserable&lt;p&gt;- Make the population worn down and apathetic because things are so bad, a better life unattainable for all but a few&lt;p&gt;- Then, no one will notice while we pass bills that heavily restrict your liberty and vastly entrench our power&lt;p&gt;- Profit&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a sinister genius, and smacks of contempt for the governed.</text></item><item><author>switch007</author><text>This is a short list of issues many people are dealing with right now:&lt;p&gt;- affording heating&lt;p&gt;- affording food&lt;p&gt;- affording their mortgage&lt;p&gt;- being kicked out of their rented accommodation&lt;p&gt;- unable to find somewhere to rent&lt;p&gt;- unable to afford somewhere to rent&lt;p&gt;- badly maintained rented properties&lt;p&gt;- bad public transport making commutes miserable&lt;p&gt;- increasing petrol prices&lt;p&gt;- unaffordable nursery fees&lt;p&gt;- long NHS wait times&lt;p&gt;- unable to find an NHS dentist&lt;p&gt;- crime&lt;p&gt;Please explain why and how privacy can rank  above this on a day to day basis about things they have the energy to care about. You kind of acknowledged this but then disregard it</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said it before and I&amp;#x27;ll repeat it here - as someone who lives in the UK the thing that bothers me the most about it is a complete apathy from everyone I know, and I work in IT. People just go &amp;quot;meh what are you going to do&amp;quot;, or recently very common &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t have strength to be angry at this government all the time over everything, I just carry on forward and hope things improve&amp;quot;. And of course the fact that this is getting 0 coverage from mainstream media doesn&amp;#x27;t help.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>&amp;gt; just classic honest-to-goodness incompetence&lt;p&gt;1. Appoint Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev to House of Lords as Lord of Siberia. His dad is a Russian oligarch and owns evening standard.&lt;p&gt;2. Handing out billions in PPE contracts to Tory donors to companies that were literally registered yesterday.&lt;p&gt;3. Privatise rail. Allow massive dividends from private rail companies. Spend 3.5 billion bailing out the same rail companies.&lt;p&gt;4. Allow 80 billion in dividents to be extracted from private water companies. Legalised dumping of raw sewage into rivers by water companies. Infrastructure is not maintained and most of water is lost to leaks. Enter talks about bailout with water companies.</text></comment>
<story><title>UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnfargbl</author><text>Who is the evil bond villain behind this dastardly plan, exactly?&lt;p&gt;The UK government has made the practicalities of everyday life extremely miserable through a combination of&lt;p&gt;(a) ham-fisted political decisions (Brexit referendum held for party-political reasons, followed by the multi-decade car crash that is still ongoing); plus&lt;p&gt;(b) plain and simple &lt;i&gt;not giving a single shit&lt;/i&gt; about the majority of the population, because it isn&amp;#x27;t in the personal interests of most of the current set of ruling MPs to give said shit.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no overarching devious plan to enslave us all, here. It&amp;#x27;s just classic honest-to-goodness incompetence and disinterest.</text></item><item><author>trackflak</author><text>It seems like the government playbook reads as follows:&lt;p&gt;- Make the practicalities of everyday life extremely miserable&lt;p&gt;- Make the population worn down and apathetic because things are so bad, a better life unattainable for all but a few&lt;p&gt;- Then, no one will notice while we pass bills that heavily restrict your liberty and vastly entrench our power&lt;p&gt;- Profit&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a sinister genius, and smacks of contempt for the governed.</text></item><item><author>switch007</author><text>This is a short list of issues many people are dealing with right now:&lt;p&gt;- affording heating&lt;p&gt;- affording food&lt;p&gt;- affording their mortgage&lt;p&gt;- being kicked out of their rented accommodation&lt;p&gt;- unable to find somewhere to rent&lt;p&gt;- unable to afford somewhere to rent&lt;p&gt;- badly maintained rented properties&lt;p&gt;- bad public transport making commutes miserable&lt;p&gt;- increasing petrol prices&lt;p&gt;- unaffordable nursery fees&lt;p&gt;- long NHS wait times&lt;p&gt;- unable to find an NHS dentist&lt;p&gt;- crime&lt;p&gt;Please explain why and how privacy can rank  above this on a day to day basis about things they have the energy to care about. You kind of acknowledged this but then disregard it</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said it before and I&amp;#x27;ll repeat it here - as someone who lives in the UK the thing that bothers me the most about it is a complete apathy from everyone I know, and I work in IT. People just go &amp;quot;meh what are you going to do&amp;quot;, or recently very common &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t have strength to be angry at this government all the time over everything, I just carry on forward and hope things improve&amp;quot;. And of course the fact that this is getting 0 coverage from mainstream media doesn&amp;#x27;t help.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>varispeed</author><text>You forgot about widening of the wealth gap and massive wealth transfer in the last couple of years.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not incompetence. The rich are in charge.</text></comment>