Notices by Police State UK (policestateuk@mastodon.me.uk)

"The loophole in WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is simple: The recipient of any #WhatsApp message can flag it. Once flagged, the message is copied on the recipient's device and sent as a separate message to #Facebook for review."

#Privacy #Security

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/whatsapp-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-arent-that-private-after-all/

@harld

'White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt boasted, "The Kennedy Center learned the hard way that if you go woke, you will go broke”.'

"In the week following Trump’s announcement, ticket sales dropped by roughly 50 percent compared to the previous week."

😆

#USPol #GoFashLoseCash

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kennedy-center-reeling-from-stunning-ticket-sales-collapse-after-trump-takeover-report/ar-AA1zzYd1

"Far-right activists will demand the release of Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who is in solitary confinement in prison after committing contempt of court."

#UKPolitics #Protest

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-police-tommy-robinson-stop-racism-protest-london-whitehall-b1208426.html

"I was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical."

#USPol #Xitter

https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election

"We should now be imposing the same boycotts on Musk’s hideous fascist US that we once did on apartheid South Africa."

#USPol #Trump #Musk

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/19/information-dark-age-elon-musk-donald-trump-jeff-bezos

"I will base my decisions on evidence not on very rich men in America,” the safeguarding minister has said, suggesting that Musk should "crack on with getting to Mars."

#UKPolitics #ElonMusk

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jess-phillips-proves-why-she-is-a-first-rate-minister-388022/

"In a US geopolitical perspective, #Greenland’s strategic or economic value should not be overestimated. It is a long way from Nuuk to Russia, and even further to China."

#USPol #Trump #Arctic

https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/trumps-greenland-flirt-clumsy-arctic-geopolitics/

"Bewildered by the ideological offensive by the heads of X and Meta, Europeans are afraid of offending US President-elect Donald Trump. They are wrong. Time for firmness."

#USPol #EUPol #Trump #ElonMusk #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #Xitter

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/01/10/the-eu-must-stand-up-to-musk-and-zuckerberg_6736900_23.html#

"President-elect Donald #Trump's threat to "tariff #Denmark at a very high level" if it refuses to give up #Greenland could affect weight loss medications like Ozempic, Lego bricks and hearing aids."

#USPol #FAFO #Consequences

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/10/greenland-plan-could-affect-ozempic-legos-hearing-aids-report/

"#Ireland has submitted a declaration to the International Court of Justice to join #SouthAfrica’s genocide case against #Israel."

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/icj-ireland-intervenes-in-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel/

"Britain’s economic gloom is overdone. The outlook is robust compared with that of our EU neighbours, the UK’s service exports are less exposed to US tariffs, while strong parliamentary stability is another positive for investors against volatility elsewhere."

#UKPolitics #Economy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/07/elon-musk-labour-policies-economy-nhs-services

"As Brazil is a signatory to the Rome Statute, it is obliged to ensure that the crimes provided for in the statute (war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide) are investigated and punished."

#Israel #Palestine

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/05/world/israel-gaza-soldiers-arrest-war-crimes-intl/index.html

"Hospital buildings in England are in such a dilapidated state they risk fires, floods and electrical faults."

#NHS

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/30/england-rundown-hospitals-are-outright-dangerous-say-nhs-chiefs

“That they had a case of mistaken identity only makes the police actions more disturbing in this case. Time and again we’ve seen police persecution of anyone who is even associated with #PalestineAction, and people subjected to intimidation and sometimes even police violence if they are suspected of being part of the group. This kind of police repression has a chilling effect on the right to protest and is traumatic for anyone caught up in it.”

#UKPol #Protest #Policing

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/29/met-police-arrest-teenager-wrongly-linked-to-palestine-protest

"Miliband has been setting out the government’s “clean power 2030” plan, including measures to boost the UK’s #RenewableEnergy supply. The blueprint includes wide-ranging measures to speed up planning decisions on clean energy projects, unblock the queue of projects waiting to connect to the grid and empowering the energy secretary to have the final say on major infrastructure such as giant onshore wind farms."

#UKpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/13/miliband-pledges-no-blackouts-under-labours-unstoppable-renewable-energy-shake-up

Kier Starmer has vowed to remain sitting on as many fences as possible...

#UKpol #EUpol #USpol

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-trump-foreign-policy-mansion-house-speech-b2657562.html

@BarrieSuddery @ukelections I think Wales voted for Brexit too? It was Scotland and Northern Ireland that didn't.

"If reports that #ElonMusk intends to donate $100million to #NigelFarage are accurate, then we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy."

#UKpolitics #ReformUK

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m-to-farage-will-break-our-democracy-starmer

"I have frequently argued that it is Labour’s self-interest to take the money out of British politics. That’s still true. But now, with the advent of Musk, doing nothing poses an existential risk to our democracy."

#UKpolitics