This is what UKGOV wanted to do with Rwanda. No country in the West is going to condem this, are they?
They want us to know that this can happen to us too, if we stand in the way of the Rich exploiting us and the planet.
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The Trump administration sent 250 people, who were mainly Venezuelan
and alleged to be gang members, to El Salvador, where the government has
opened its prisons to deportees from the United States.
Human Rights Watch warns that conditions in the prisons are dangerous and
inhumane:
44 Detainees in El Salvador’s prison system are cut off from the outside world
and denied any meaningful legal recourse. While [president Nayib] Bukele
publicizes his prisons as “the best in the world,” the reality is very different. We
have interviewed people released from these prisons and dozens who have
relatives in jail. One after the other, we received and verified accounts of dismal
detention conditions, torture and death.
One of the people we spoke with was an 18-year-old construction worker who
said that police beat prison newcomers with batons for an hour. He said that
when he denied being a gang member, they sent him to a dark basement cell
with 320 detainees, where prison guards and other detainees beat him every
day. One guard beat him so severely once, he said, that it broke a rib.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/178/601/450/038/229/original/7429c2abe6643332.png "mago 15.57 GMT
The Trump administration sent 250 people, who were mainly Venezuelan
and alleged to be gang members, to El Salvador, where the government has
opened its prisons to deportees from the United States.
Human Rights Watch warns that conditions in the prisons are dangerous and
inhumane:
44 Detainees in El Salvador’s prison system are cut off from the outside world
and denied any meaningful legal recourse. While [president Nayib] Bukele
publicizes his prisons as “the best in the world,” the reality is very different. We
have interviewed people released from these prisons and dozens who have
relatives in jail. One after the other, we received and verified accounts of dismal
detention conditions, torture and death.
One of the people we spoke with was an 18-year-old construction worker who
said that police beat prison newcomers with batons for an hour. He said that
when he denied being a gang member, they sent him to a dark basement cell
with 320 detainees, where prison guards and other detainees beat him every
day. One guard beat him so severely once, he said, that it broke a rib.")
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This is our Foreign Minister, do we think he's compromised?
"As shadow foreign secretary, I’m an Atlanticist, a deep believer in Britain’s military, intelligence and nuclear alliance with the US. But as a person, I’m also a product of the Atlantic. Sometimes, when the cabin stills, flying over the ocean, I think about the crossings that made me."
Frankly anybody who calls themselves an "Atlanticist" is just carrying water for Oceania
https://www.newstatesman.com/diary/2023/09/special-relationship-north-america-david-lammy
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There's still time to put pressure on the UK government.
The UK Secretary of State has the power to exempt small, safely moderated websites from the Online Safety duties.
We need urgent change to protect net plurality, rather than further consolidating power in monopoly platforms. We need competition for a safer Internet.
Write to your MP (UK) #SaveOurSites 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
The UK Online Safety Act comes into effect today.
Its onerous duties may cause many small sites, blogs and fedi instances to shut down or geoblock UK users when faced with potential fines and penalties.
This won't keep children safe. It'll benefit large platforms like Facebook and X that are laying waste to content moderation.
The Register · It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board
Starmer: We can't tax the rich, that would hurt the economy
Also Starmer: The British people have spoken* and Brexit is final no matter how much damage that's done and continues to do to the economy
* What the British people said was, a third wanted to Leave, a third wanted to Remain, and a third didn't know or didn't care. Also, the year after, the British people said we wanted a Blue Tory government so you should resign, Keir. What's that? Changing views? Also, in the last election, 80% of the electorate didn't vote for you so the British people speaking doesn't seem to be high on your actual list of policy drivers mate
Report: The UK Foreign Office refuses to condemn deadly Israeli attack on British charity in Gaza
The Israeli army killed eight UK humanitarian aid workers in a drone strike on northern Gaza on Saturday.
The UK Foreign office said it was “deeply saddened” by the attack.
This Wes #Streeting guy is a real villain of a human.
For what it means to anyone (and everyone else's case is valid), when I had my mental health collapse, I didn't claim these so-called 'benefits', and still people looked at me like I was making it all up.
BBC NewsMental health conditions are overdiagnosed, Streeting saysWes Streeting says too many young people are "being written off", as he defends upcoming welfare reforms.
Labour Party targeting people with mental health issues for more cuts, just evil.
Nothing less of a military draft, dragging the most vulnerable to indenture service knowing they're the most likely to be exploited without much protections.
The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.
There’s a simple solution:
Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances The government can do this now
The duties start TOMORROW – Write to your MP 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
Morning all.
Musing: the lies from Labour about helping people into work.
If you want disabled people to work, and I don't know why you would other than some twisted belief that human lives are meaningful only in terms of our economic output, but if you do then you could do it this way:
* Identify areas in which deploying large numbers of people with varying skills and ability levels could improve society for all, and if you must do it this way, improve national economics capability
* Offer flexible and realistic positions to make progress in those areas, to disabled people, without threat and at market rates
* Pay for this using the power of a fiat currency with a national central bank
Maybe this would work instead of forcing people to compete in an ableist job market deliberately designed to have large numbers of unemployed in order to suppress wages.
But you don't want it to work. You just want to look good to the gammon and the City and the cost will be the lives of disabled folk.
"US politicians and privacy campaigners are calling for the private hearing between Apple and the UK government regarding its alleged encryption-busting order to be aired in public."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/apple_uk_encryption_hearing/
"Colloquially, the IPA is referred to as the Snooper's Charter since its aims are to legally empower intelligence agencies with greater surveillance powers."
The Register · Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash
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@alisynthesis I guess Bernie would have to attract billionaires that he's not willing to court, which is sad because there are enough on the "giving pledge" list who would at least listen.
There are still some Chuck Feenyes in the world.
I watched the same with Michael Foot in Britain, who was a fantastic socialist leader, and a fantastic speaker - and was very similar to Bernie in a lot of ways. But he was completely unelectable because in an ultra capitalist society, you need friends in that world (very oversimplified).
Now I will spend too long trying to find out if Foot and Bernie ever met, but I think a plane ticket to America would have been far too opulent for him 
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Will you join over 1.9k people who’ve signed our petition to keep what’s stored on Apple iCloud encrypted?
The UK government is gambling with our security and playing into the hands of hackers and criminals.
Send a message: save encryption before more services are hit with technical notices.
Sign and share now
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
38 DegreesKeep our Apple data encryptedIt is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud.
Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure. It’s essential for being safe online when sending messages, shopping, doing online banking – and for storing things safely in the cloud. With the Cabinet Office estimating the cost of Cyber Crime at £21BN a year to our economy, we can’t afford to make our...
‘Absurd’
When you have the press and civil society camped outside the courtroom, the secret might be out 
Even so, we’re still denied the reasons why the UK government wants to take a battering ram to our security and privacy.
It shows contempt for the public interest in the Apple encryption case.
"There is still time for the Labour cabinet to act like a cabinet, and for its members to stand up to the Treasury to halt the cuts in benefits to the sick and disabled, and to insist on a more flexible interpretation of the fiscal rules and a limited set of tax measures."
John McDonnell
Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted? | John McDonnell | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/benefit-cuts-labour-mps-disabled-sick
#UKPol #Labour #welfare #austerity
The Guardian · Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted?
Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.
We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.
URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"
The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.
The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.
Other services will be hit.
https://therecord.media/google-refuses-to-deny-it-received-uk-tcn
Sign our petition 
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
therecord.mediaGoogle refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK governmentU.S. lawmakers say Google has refused to deny that it received a Technical Capability Notice from the U.K. — a mechanism to access encrypted messages that Apple reportedly received.
No one really knows how the game is played
The art of the trade
How the sausage gets made
We just assume that it happens
But no one else is in
The room where it happens.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
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The battle for encryption happens TODAY. Your right to privacy and security will be decided behind your back.
We call for the hearing to be made public.
Encryption must be protected from this slippery slope.
Sign and share our petition to have your say
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
38 DegreesKeep our Apple data encryptedIt is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud.
Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure. It’s essential for being safe online when sending messages, shopping, doing online banking – and for storing things safely in the cloud. With the Cabinet Office estimating the cost of Cyber Crime at £21BN a year to our economy, we can’t afford to make our...