• hiire@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I hate how people turn a blind eye to these things nowadays. They’re willing to give away their personal lives at the expense of the shittiest excuses out there. Privacy should be a necessity, ffs.

    • dunestorm@lemmy.world
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      Why don’t they just actually give their actual reason: to spy on UK citizens.

      To use children and criminals as a scapegoat for this attrocity is disgusting.

    • perviouslyiner@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      protect the public from criminals, child sex abusers and terrorists

      Aren’t two of those just subsets of the first one?

      What a curious pair of emotionally manipulative examples to choose, when it adds absolutely no extra meaning to the Home Office’s statement.

      • darcy@sh.itjust.works
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        i would assume they mean ‘criminals, especially…’, but classic tHiNk oF tHe ChiLdReN argument