Use a long password and you’ll be immune from their before first unlock brute force.

Passcodes are trivial to break.

Laws don’t make a democracy authoritarian either

How do you think former democracies turn, like the Weimar Republic turned into Nazi Germany?

It started with legislation.

Also, this country already has deeply authoritarian aspects, such as GCHQs immunity to the public and their tapping of the internet backbone and storage of the data with no accountability. If that’s not authoritarian, I don’t know what is.

Also, remember that NotMyKing protestors in London (ORGANISED PROTEST) were arrested en-masse for NO reason, only to be released when the event was over. But yeah, we’re “not authoritarian”.

They have just as much freedom to protest as everyone else has

Little and declining every day? What, are you only okay with it if they’re standing with signs in a corner where they can be conveniently ignored?

If they think they can break the law without punishment, they are simply wrong and stupid.

Oh yeah, I forgot, only lobbying fossil fuel companies get that privilege. Destroy the environment and become immune from repercussions. Score!

The law is being changed to slowly ban effective protest, does that mean it’s okay to crush protest? No! To say it is just because the laws were passed in a democracy (by either stupid or malicious politicians) doesn’t make it just, or any less authoritarian.

Also consider that the FPTP election system is deeply undemocratic to begin with, where a party with about 30% of votes can gain a majority despite the majority actually voting against them.

Another one for the graveyard!

Then being locked up for a year for being chained to said lamp post?

“They annoy me, so they should be locked up!”

Clown. People like you are why this country is barreling into authoritarianism. Even under Labour.

Should have the right to know what happening to their children. Schools shouldn’t be hiding anything from the parents.

I hate to break it to you, but if a child tells the school before they tell their own damn parents, there’s a reason for that.

Usually in a situation where people are being used as shields the reaction is not to indiscriminately murder all the people then say “we did it! the hostage-taker is dead!”.

Switzerland isn’t in the EU

Where’s lemmy.ml, telling us all that China is actually the peak of liberty?

You’re not gonna get anything requiring Ring 0 access (like Vanguard) running on Linux anytime soon.

Good. Kernel mode anticheat is fucking malware. Anticheat for a game should never have the same power over the system as a driver, which needs those privileges to communicate with hardware.