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If you can go to prison for up to 7 years shoplifting, why can't wage theft be criminally prosecuted too?

Meanwhile, because of this and the contempt for the rights of migrants, some parties are advocating for leaving the European Court of Human Rights.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm283eqje03o

After all, if you're being admonished for human rights violations, why not just redefine what human rights are and plug your ears to criticism?

The above image is all us folk in the UK see when you do, and if we try to use a VPN + incognito, we get this:

403 means forbidden, so the message is disingenuous.

They must have put some effort into block lists for VPN servers. Even if it works for some of us, it's not worth it.

For more information on this, see this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

Adding to the above, Sex Matters (the anti-trans-rights organization) sees this as an opportunity to out all trans people, and given how often the EHRC listens to them, and how the government accepts the EHRC's guidance, there is real chance that this is very dangerous.

If you are a UK resident and are against the introduction of Digital ID, a petition is available to vote against it's introduction. So far it has gained over 1.7 million signatures. Only yesterday it was at just under a million.

Sorry for the weird source, a YouTube Post, but this is where I first saw it.

Part of the Republicans' Big Beautiful Bill includes a stipulation (that Planned Parenthood is challenging in court) that no federal funding or Medicaid dollars would be given to clinics that provide abortion. It was already against the law for any organization to use federal dollars towards abortion services other than for cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the pregnant person. In other words, no one's tax dollars were being used to fund abortions.

Activists say this was a targeted move to finally 'defund' Planned Parenthood, a long-term goal of Republicans.

Medical facilities, including Planned Parenthood, need that money to stay open. So, the Wisconsin branches, even though they're in a state where abortion is legal, will stop performing abortions since they can't afford to lose the federal money.

Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal.

Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.

The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian last month. It revealed how Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance programme.

The UK petition version of the Stop Killing Games initiative got a somewhat dismissive response in February. They said they had no plan to modify or introduce new laws, that existing laws were sufficient for protecting consumers.

Petition signers today received word via email that this would be debated in parliament on November 3rd.

surprise surprise

Every time you hear a right-winger accusing someone of something, there's a good chance they have done it themselves.

It is likely protesting the Palestine Action ban.

When the right talk about free speech, they only defend the free speech of bigots and right-wing politicians.

As soon as someone disagrees with them or calls them out, suddenly speech isn't so free after all.

Palestine Action is a direct action group that was proscribed a terrorist organization after they spray-painted some RAF planes in defiance of UK military aid to Israel.

Most arrested individuals were retirees, with some blind and otherwise disabled people also arrested.

Over 500 people were arrested, the most for a peaceful protest since 1961.

Spotted in London. There were some for gay, lesbian and straight. 🏳️‍🌈