Remember how back when the Snowden Revelations came out that the UK had civil society surveillace network just as big or bigger than the US (both of which being a lot more like what Russia and China do than what one would naivelly expect in Democractic countries)?
Well, in the US some of it was actually rolled back because it was unconstitutional.
In the UK, which has no written Constitution, even though what they were doing was unlawfull at the time, it was simply all made retroactivelly lawful by a law passed by that government. Then the Editor of the newspaper who brought out the Snowden Revelations - which is this very newspaper - was kicked out never to be hired to any important position by any large media company over there again, and the whole thing was never again mentioned including by this very newspaper that has been producing “what a surprise!” articles like this every time their government passes another “lets be more like China” law like this.
That country has a voting system as rigged as the one in the US (hence how the current government has 60% of parliamentarians on 42% of votes), no Constitution to protect even basic rights from a government with a mere “37% of votes” (enough for this party to get a parliamentary majority) and political and money elites which are far more elitist (think people who see most other people as “plebes”) and authoritarian-leaning than pretty much all other democratic nations (I suppose the jury is out on whether the UK Tories are worse than Orban or not, though they’re certainly much posher sounding)
Remember how back when the Snowden Revelations came out that the UK had civil society surveillace network just as big or bigger than the US (both of which being a lot more like what Russia and China do than what one would naivelly expect in Democractic countries)?
Well, in the US some of it was actually rolled back because it was unconstitutional.
In the UK, which has no written Constitution, even though what they were doing was unlawfull at the time, it was simply all made retroactivelly lawful by a law passed by that government. Then the Editor of the newspaper who brought out the Snowden Revelations - which is this very newspaper - was kicked out never to be hired to any important position by any large media company over there again, and the whole thing was never again mentioned including by this very newspaper that has been producing “what a surprise!” articles like this every time their government passes another “lets be more like China” law like this.
That country has a voting system as rigged as the one in the US (hence how the current government has 60% of parliamentarians on 42% of votes), no Constitution to protect even basic rights from a government with a mere “37% of votes” (enough for this party to get a parliamentary majority) and political and money elites which are far more elitist (think people who see most other people as “plebes”) and authoritarian-leaning than pretty much all other democratic nations (I suppose the jury is out on whether the UK Tories are worse than Orban or not, though they’re certainly much posher sounding)