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The UK started taking a sharp authoritarian turn in the late '10s, every time I go back I am shocked at how censored public internet access has become, how conservative the media has become and how little the general public are aware of it all.
I spend a few weeks a year in the UK, as I still have family and friends there. I usually carry a UK SIM, but also spend a lot of time on public/hotel wifi. No matter the access point, I constantly find half the privacy/lgbt sites I operate blocked
CCTV coverage in town centers has been a thing in the UK for decades - but in the last few years I've noticed an increase both in fixed coverage, and in mobile surveillance vans. Police now regularly deploy facial recognition/surveillance.
Anyway, it isn't going to end there. Regardless of what happens in the next few weeks it is difficult to see anything reversing the trend.
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