The UK government are planning to follow China and require security vulnerabilities be reported centrally and then remain unpatched to allow Five Eyes access. https://www.justsecurity.org/87615/changes-to-uk-surveillance-regime-may-violate-international-law/
@GossiTheDog jings.
What an extraordinarily bad idea.
Surely no one could be so stupid as to...
Oh, wait, it's the UK #Conservatives.
@simon_brooke @GossiTheDog American here: I was under the impression that the UK is always absolutely terrible on these issues, regardless of which party is in power. Are conservatives worse?
@ech @GossiTheDog vastly. I have never voted #Labour in my life, but we had competent government from 1997-2008 under Labour. They did some very bad stuff, but they did it well.
By contrast we've had catastrophic, chaotic government since 2009 under the #Conservatives. These clowns are not just fantasists and charlatans, not just criminal and corrupt, they're also of immensely shallow intelligence. They cannot understand the consequences of their actions.
Think Trump, but more cretinous.
@simon_brooke @GossiTheDog Interesting. In the US both parties are absolutely awful on this particular kind of issue. A few pols in each party would see the problem with OP, I think, but as a whole I suspect they'd both enthusiastically support this proposal.
@ech @GossiTheDog I wrote a wee essay last week about why representative democracy, especially with first past the post voting systems, systematically selects unsuitable people as politicians.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2023-08-12-on-representative-democracy-and-citizens-assemblies/