EFF: UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety opinion: US policymakers should take heed, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation

THIS! Want to protect children? Then teach their parents how to use parental controls. #AuthoritarianUK www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/t...

In this specific way, the UK functions as an authoritarian state.

What else do you call a system where a government says:

“You can vote for your party — but we’ll veto parts of its manifesto.”
“You can have democracy — just not the kind that lets you leave.”

#AuthoritarianUK

Westminster: Police raid Quaker Meeting House | ICN Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House in London last night (27 March 2025) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.In the following statement, the Qua...

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House in London last night (27 March 2025) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza. The right to free speech and protest is under attack in #AuthoritarianUK
www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52036?s...

Privacy fears for millions as government demands access to messages and photos 'The government want to be able to access anything and everything, anywhere, any time.'

#AuthoritarianUK Britain aims to violate the privacy of all iPhone users. The UK government has demanded Apple provide backdoor access to snoop on the private communications of people not suspected of any crime. #DigitalRights
metro.co.uk/2025/02/08/p...

There is reason to think this surveillance backdoor has already been provided by other tech companies. There is no logical reason to think that spies only want access to Apple users' private data and communications.
#AuthoritarianUK

Gov.uk app could lead to ‘mandatory ID scheme’, claim privacy groups App and wallet would allow people to carry digital versions of key documents such as driving licence on their phones

Yup! That's a feature for them, not a bug. They couldn't win the public argument for mandatory Digital-ID so they are doing it behind our backs. #AuthoritarianUK #DigitalRights
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#AuthoritarianUK where climate activists were jailed for years for *planning* protests and peaceful protestors can get five years in jail.

UK smuggling in new surveillance regime without any transparency, accountability, or due public deliberation. #AuthoritarianUK