#orwellian — Public Fediverse posts
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On today's episode of #WMPG's #CommunityVoicesForChange, the topic is #FlockCameras, Municipal #Surveillance and #Privacy!
Community Voices For Change
On Mon from 01:00 pm EST to 01:30 pm EST
With: Richard RudolphDescription
"Community Voices for Change is a talk show highlighting the work of individuals and organizations working to enhance the greater good of communities. Producer and Host Richard Rudolph begins each show with music from Sam Cooke’s Ain’t That Good News Album -'A Change is Gonna Come'. The show is also based on the writings of #HowardZinn and other writers who believe if we can get organized '#SmallActs' multiplied by hundreds, thousands of people we can transform our communities, the state and even possibly the world. Our sound engineer is Dennis Kirkpatrick."
Link to show info and archives:
https://www.wmpg.org/show/mon1300/Spreaker link:
https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/community-voices-for-change--6675193#CommunityRadio #MainePol #USPol #Orwellian #SurveillanceState
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Protect #VPN use in the UK
Sign petition:
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk
#privacy #security #Internet #authoritarian #Surveillance #ToxicLabour #Orwellian #Orwell #DemocracyNOW #OpenRightsGroup
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#AndThen? And then #Mullvad was #censored in #UK
#UnitedKingdom is escalating its #censorship & mass #surveillance
When Mullvad tried to address this with #TV #ad “And Then?”, it was banned on British television
Outdoor ad campaign meant to criticise the TV ban was also largely halted
Here, you can watch the banned ads and explore the entire campaign
https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk
#authoritarian #Orwellian #dystopian #privacy #security #ToxicTories #ToxicLabour #KeirStalin #StarmerOut
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Stop scanning us! #FacialRecognition
Home Secretary Mahmood, revealed her chilling vision of building a “panopticon” where “the eyes of the state can be on you at all times”
Your #passport photo now being searched by police, even if you have done nothing wrong
#Driving licence photos are next
If we don’t set clear limits now, our rights to #privacy, #FreeSpeech, #protest & access to information are at risk
Sign:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-scanning-us-all-with-facial-recognition -
Scrap #DigitalID cards
#UK Government plan for digital ID cards is £1.8 billion white elephant
It is little more than an echo of the failed Tony Blair ID card scheme, now with an expensive digital element bolted on
We rejected ID cards then and we reject them now.
Despite the government’s partial U-turn on some compulsory elements of the scheme, the huge cost remains – alongside many other problems.
#security #privacy #BigData #ToxicLabour #KierStalin #ID #Orwellian
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Stop #FacialRecognition
This could be the last meaningful chance to push back on 24/7 #facial recognition in #UK
Putting cameras on our high streets, we’re all treated like #suspects in #digital #police #line-up, with our photos taken repeated for identity checks 24/7
We’ve created a speedy tool to help you respond – it takes just minutes but could help protect privacy for a generation.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-facial-recognition/
#PoliceState #authoritarian #Orwellian #dystopian #ToxicLabour #KeirStalin
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#Labour's #jury plans condemned by lawyers across UK, Ireland
UK #Justice Secretary #Lammy wants to limit #JuryTrials
“The Four Bars are deeply concerned that the #UK Govt planning to restrict the right to a #jury #trial in #England & #Wales
- “Being tried by a jury of one’s peers is a fundamental cornerstone of the criminal #justice system in our respective jurisdictions”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25729633.labours-jury-plans-condemned-lawyers-across-uk-ireland/
#ToxicLabour #DemocracyNOW #HumanRights #authoritarian #Orwellian #1984 #dictatorship
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Digital #ID to become law in U-turn from #Labour Government
#ToxicLabour#DigitalID is to be made law for all adults in the #UK in a screeching U-turn from the Labour Government. [Not in Labour #Manifesto]
Keir #Starmer is expected to announce the full plans later this week, with LBC speculating an announcement could be made on Friday
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25495657.digital-id-become-law-u-turn-labour-government/
#authoritarian #LabourLies #dishonest #Orwellian #oppressive #ToxicStarmer
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#Journalists detained as ad van with Trump & #Epstein picture seized by police
#Trump is attending series of private engagements with royal family at Windsor today
The National understands journalists in attendance were held & questioned by police for ~30 mins
They want us to think #US is good influence. Truth is Trump is an abuser who was friends with paedophile Epstein. Not good for anyone in #UK
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25474015.journalists-detained-ad-van-trump-epstein-picture-seized/
#ToxicLabour #DementiaDon #ToxicStarmer #authoritarian #Orwellian
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Ukraine rebukes Slovak FM’s call to ‘perhaps forgive’ Moscow — UN analysis finds Russia responsible for 2022 Olenivka prison explosion killing Ukrainian POWs — Smashing previous monthly record, Russia launches 5,337 kamikaze drones against Ukraine during June — Russia-Iran alliance wavers as Tehran suffers major blows — China unveils its new graphite bomb; here’s how they work … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/tuesday-july-1-2025/
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Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship #USCitizens to #ElSalvador
Trump officials are talking internally about #denaturalizing #AmericanCitizens — and potentially sending some to #ElSalvador
By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Asawin Suebsaeng, Andrew Perez - April 12, 2025
"Donald #Trump and his White House have moved to deport #GreenCard holders for espousing #ProPalestinian views, shipped hundreds of #migrants to a notorious #Salvadoran #MegaPrison without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador.
"Trump said last weekend he would 'love' to send American criminals there — and would even be 'honored' to, depending on 'what the law says.' White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this 'if it’s legal.'
"El Salvador’s president, #Nayi Bukele, has for months been offering to hold U.S. citizens in his country’s prison system, which he has turned into 'a judicial black hole' rife with 'systematic #torture,' as one #HumanRights advocate recently told Rolling Stone.
"Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly #authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.
"The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.
" 'You can’t deport U.S. citizens. There’s no emergency exception, there’s no special wartime authority, there’s no secret clause. You just can’t deport citizens,' says Steve Vladeck, a legal commentator and law professor at Georgetown.
" 'Whatever grounds they try to come up with for denaturalization or #expatriation, the one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that people are entitled to individualized processes, before that process can be effectuated.'
"In the United States, the grounds to strip a naturalized individual of their citizenship encompass serious material offenses. They include: committing #treason or #terrorism, enlisting in a foreign military engaged in opposition to the United States, or lying in applications for citizenship or as part of the naturalization process."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/xliRd#Orwellian #Authorianism #Fascism #ICEDetention #Deportations #USPol #SilencingDissent #MemoryHoled #Disappeared