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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 7h

And since Trump exercised partisan control over the PCLOB - sacking its Democrat members - one of the potential safeguards against abuse of EU citizens' personal data has been neutralised.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

And of course, your reminder that the Conservatives in government enthusiastically approved every single one of the Sentencing Guidelines that they now claim are evidence of the far-right “two tier justice” myth.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 7h

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 7h

Trump's presiding over a country where people can be bankrupted by illness... and we're having to pay more for medicines to appease him? When will governments learn that he'll just grab that and ratchet up his demands?

Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 7h

Thread. Remember, also, that what judges have to do is *apply the law*, and they have to do it in writing, on the record, in a legal system based on precedent as well as statute. Jenrick is an accountability-shy opportunist who shouldn't be let near the legal system (except possibly as a defendant).

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 8h

Shameless bullying by odious little tin soldier Jenrick of people who just want to serve the public.

This shouldn’t be worth taking seriously ofc, bar the manifest risk that our politics will now dissolve into an auction over how many judges each party promises to sack.

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 9h

Top Tory names judges he would sack for bias bit.ly/3KE7cBY some have allowed immigrants to stay in the UK for reasons Robert Jenrick disapproves of. He wants Ministers to appoint (and sack) judges. But top judge Sumption warns this could lead to an authoritarian state

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 7h

Israel’s two year assault on GAZA

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 7h

+1: for one thing, privacy-respecting technology would be far more developed - because it could have preceded the monetization boom. And the tech for secure, trustworthy attribute assertions would have been commonplace... so maybe the UK's Age Verification scheme would have been less of a farce.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 8h

5 times I've been through the 'break / ban encryption' debate.

1st time was late 90s, trying to get encryption to use AT ALL.

Imagine what progressive tech could have built if we didn't have to drop everything to fight this BS off every few years.

Support your local digital rights org. Please.

Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 18h

At some point, you'd think they ought to conclude that *there isn't an acceptable, mandatory alternative*, and put the resources into other, more practical ways of addressing the *societal* problem of child abuse instead. But they'd rather have the means of mass surveillance and censorship. 🤷‍♂️

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 18h

Someone other than a US Republican propagandist might think that the word POLICIA on the riot shields was a bit of a giveaway...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 18h

At some point, you'd think they ought to conclude that *there isn't an acceptable, mandatory alternative*, and put the resources into other, more practical ways of addressing the *societal* problem of child abuse instead. But they'd rather have the means of mass surveillance and censorship. 🤷‍♂️

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 18h

The derogation says that online services aren't violating the e-Privacy Directive if they *voluntarily* monitor their users' traffic for illegal content. It's been 'temporary' *for 5+years* because no EU presidency has got consensus on an acceptable, mandatory monitoring alternative.

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 18h

They're telling other EU govts "pass the CSAR NOW, because the temporary derogation EXPIRES NEXT YEAR 😱". Yeah, but... the 'temporary' derogation has been in place since before 2020, and has expired before, and been renewed. This is fake jeopardy, and the expiry actually tells us something else:

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 21h

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

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GrumpyGirdle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿〓〓🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸🐈‍⬛📚🌊 @grumpygirdle.bsky.social · 21h

Banned Books Week 2025 Blackwell's

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 21h

The Danish government pushed this proposal onto the Council of Ministers' agenda for Friday, despite not having the usual consensus for doing so. They have also made misleading statements about the so-called "temporary derogation from the ePrivacy directive": data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...

data.consilium.europa.eu

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 21h

True, though here I just mean "without law enforcement powers", rather than anything like PAM... 🙂

Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 21h

I don't think Jenrick is in a position to start accusing anyone else of bringing their office into disrepute.

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 21h

Excellent if true. And perhaps the persistent parliamentary chaos in France will persuade the politicians there that they've got more important things to do than defend this authoritarian and impractical proposal.

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 22h

Where to even start with what's wrong with this? The Home Office isn't just unfit for purpose, it's enabling companies to profit from desperation, *from the public purse*, and signing 10-year contracts *whose cost then triples*.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.

www.bbc.com

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 1d

Een beleid dat op dit soort overdrijvingen is gebaseerd, kan niet "noodzakelijk en evenredig" zijn - wat het volgens het EU-recht wel moet zijn.

Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 1d

Hartelijke dank: ik ben het er helemaal mee eens.

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Profolus @profolus.com · 2d

KONSYSE: The high-profile case against former megachurch leader Robert Morris concludes with a guilty plea on five felony counts of child sexual abuse.

Former Trump Spiritual Advisor Robert Morris Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Abuse Charges — Konsyse

Ex-Trump advisor Robert Morris sentenced after admitting to abusing 12-year-old Cindy Clemishire.

www.konsyse.com

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Khaleesi (Elina Eickstädt) @khaleesicodes.bsky.social · 4d

If you are a German citizen, please consider contracting your MPs and Ministers. We’ve created a guide on what MPs to contact as well as example arguments:

chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20...

Der Kampf gegen die Chatkontrolle braucht dich jetzt! – Chatkontrolle STOPPEN!

chat-kontrolle.eu

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Signal @signal.org · 4d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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