Archiv: Suella Braverman
‚Think about that for a minute… The Home Secretary wanted a riot.‘ As the Home Secretary is sacked, @mrjamesob wonders why Suella Braverman attacked the police and ‚summoned‘ a mob of ‚far-right hooligans‘ to London.
(13.11.2023)
Suella Braverman is the most hated woman in British politics — and far nicer than you think
(November 9, 2023)
Some speculate the ambitious Braverman’s sole aim was to upset left-wing opinion and so enhance her standing with the grassroots Tory members — a famously right-wing cohort — who will decide a future Tory leadership contest.
If so, she likely succeeded.
UK urges Meta not to roll out end-to-end encryption on Messenger and Instagram
A Meta spokesperson said: „The overwhelming majority of Brits already rely on apps that use encryption to keep them safe from hackers, fraudsters and criminals.
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„We don‘t think people want us reading their private messages so have spent the last five years developing robust safety measures to prevent, detect and combat abuse while maintaining online security.“
Meta targeted for fresh UK gov’t warning against E2E encryption for Messenger, Instagram
Although friction from policymakers has clearly made the “pivot to privacy” which founder Mark Zuckerberg announced all the way back in 2019, when he said the company would universally apply E2EE on its services, slow going.
Finally, though, this August, Meta announced it would enable E2EE by default for Messenger by the end of the year.
Wikipedia may no longer be available in UK because of online safety bill
Lucy Crompton-Reid, the chief executive of Wikimedia UK, said it was “definitely possible that one of the most visited websites in the world – and a vital source of freely accessible knowledge and information for millions of people – won’t be accessible to UK readers (let alone UK-based contributors)”.
Wikipedia could be taken offline in the UK
Lucy Crompton-Reid, chief executive of Wikimedia UK, warned the text of the bill could compel the website to introduce age verification.
The Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the free encyclopaedia, said it would refuse to verify the age of UK readers.
Failure to properly comply with the Online Safety Bill could create a situation where the site is fined, or even blocked for UK users entirely.
Citing Privacy Concerns, WhatsApp, Signal Wage Media Campaign Against UK Online Safety Bill
(April 25, 2023)
WhatsApp and Signal, two of the largest privacy-focused messaging apps, have joined forces to petition against the United Kingdom’s proposed Online Safety Bill due to privacy concerns. They are accompanied in this effort by several other smaller privacy apps, such as Viber and Wire, who have signed on to an open letter directed to UK legislators.
UK Introduces Mass Surveillance With Online Safety Bill
(30.03.2023)
The anomaly is that if the government can access the content, criminals and foreign governments will almost certainly be able to use the same backdoor. (…)
This law will already affect US firms. The real danger is its arguments may spread like a contagion to be used by other governments.
UN Human Rights Chief urges UK to reverse ‘deeply troubling’ Public Order Bill
The Public Order Bill, which has now been passed by Parliament in the United Kingdom, is deeply troubling legislation that is incompatible with the UK’s international human rights obligations regarding people’s rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Thursday.
“This new law imposes serious and undue restrictions on these rights that are neither necessary nor proportionate to achieve a legitimate purpose as defined under international law. This law is wholly unnecessary as UK police already have the powers to act against violent and disruptive demonstrations,” Türk said.
New ‘magical thinking’ law puts everyone’s privacy at risk, warns Signal president
Ms Whittaker said the video offered “scientifically unsubstantiated claims”. But she said that the video had also “pulled the veil off the intentions behind this bill”, and that it had made clear the legislation “really is attacking encryption”.
“It appears to me that there’s a little bit of desperation – and now they’ve taken the gloves off,” she told The Independent. “And they are saying the quiet part loud, which is that we don’t want more encryption.”
Child sexual abuse is an appalling crime. The roll out of end-to-end encryption means the light that has shone on these crimes will be switched off. @NCA_UK Director General Rob Jones & @PoliceChiefs Ian Critchley on why social media companies must put child safety first.
(19.04.2023)
Liz Truss threatened with Tory revolt in showdown ‘confidence vote’ on fracking
Liz Truss was facing a revolt by Tory MPs opposed to fracking on Wednesday despite whips saying a crunch Commons vote was a “confidence motion in the Government”.
At least three MPs signalled that they would not back the Government in the showdown vote, including the Prime Minister’s net-zero tsar Chris Skidmore, Conservative MP for Kingswood.
Suella Braverman‘s resignation letter to Liz Truss in full
Earlier today, I sent an official document from my personal email to a trusted parliamentary colleague as part of policy engagement, and with the aim of garnering support for Government policy on migration. This constitutes a technical infringement of the rules. As you know, the document was a draft Written Ministerial Statement about migration, due for publication imminently. Much of it had already been briefed to MPs. Nevertheless, it is right for me to go.
As soon as I realised my mistake, I rapidly reported this on official channels, and informed the Cabinet Secretary. As Home Secretary I hold myself to the highest standards and my resignation is the right thing to do. The business of government relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes. Pretending we haven‘t made mistake, carrying on as if everyone can‘t see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility; I resign.
Suella Braverman quits as home secretary with scathing broadside over Liz Truss’s ‘broken pledges’
The immediate cause of the resignation was the breach of security rules after Ms Braverman admitted inadvertently sending a sensitive document from her personal email.
But a letter to the PM, released by Ms Braverman on her social media feeds, amounted to an assault on Ms Truss’s five-week record in office.
The trouble with dog-whistles: Paul Embery is the latest victim of the cynical censorship brigade
One of the strange habits of our time is the one in which a self-appointed class roams the land, hands cupped to their ear, hoping to discern something they can identify as a ‘dog-whistle’. I wrote about this habit after Conservative MP Suella Braverman came in for a scolding for using the phrase ‘cultural Marxism’ in a speech.