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They can surveil all the elderly people, people with disability, and people living below the poverty line as they make their way from their frigid, unheated houses so they can temporarily shelter in heated public spaces as they desperately try to stave off the effects of hypothermia for one more day.
Another day, another dizzying amount of money spent doing anything but improving the lives of the average person, all courtesy of the Kid Starver regime.
what is it about cracker-run countries where the people just roll-over and accept this shit?
Alongside this, £115 million (US$157.3 million) will be invested over the next three years into a National Centre for AI in Policing, known as Police.AI. The Israeli-based Corsight AI – implicated for using AI for surveillance in Gaza and leading to the wrongful detention of hundreds of Palestinians – will be subcontracted to help provide this service.
Behold. Israel, genocide trained AI and mass surveillance. The holy trinity of 21rst century liberalism.
as well as the merger of Britain’s 43 separate police forces, likely into 12 "mega forces".
I wonder if centralisating the police forces will make them more violent or less. Well at the home secretary thinks it will make them more violent else they wouldn't be doing it, but does anyone know of how this shit might play out?
In parallel, the House of Lords amended the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to ban VPN access for under-18s, mandating provider identity verification and further eroding online anonymity. A recent amendment to the UK’s 2025 Online Safety Act will require social media and dating apps to take “proactive steps” – including pre-scanning private messages – to curb unsolicited nude images and other harmful content.
Awful in every way.
Call your party labour and increase exploitation of labour y'all