I've noticed a lot of bad digital rights stuff on HN over the last couple weeks - more pushes on age verification, attacks on end-to-end encryption, and now this. Is there something about the time of year? Maybe because the world cup is coming and people will be distracted?

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fidotron 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q3x19ddl7o is perhaps an unintentionally good summary of this situation.

	▲	EmbarrassedHelp 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That article appears to be slightly biased in favor of attacks on privacy, and it omits important details like the UK's ongoing consultation includes questions on banning VPNs.

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nitrix 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm doubtful the venn diagram intersection of engineers and the world cup is as big as you think it is.

	▲	dylan604 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My engineering team would all take long lunches to catch matches, and most of us would have windowed streams for games not aligning to a lunch break. I'd be willing think it would be a larger intersection that you think it is
	▲	NooneAtAll3 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		engineers sure non-permanently-online activists on the other hand...

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boothby 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In my hometown, we're quashing human rights to make room for the world cup! It's not a smokescreen, it's the justification.

https://www.pivotlegal.org/city_of_vancouver_s_new_fifa_byla...

	▲	cgh 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		From your link: “Further, the enforcement of this Bylaw, like all laws enacted in our current colonial and racist legal system…” Practically no Vancouverite would read this page and take it seriously.