Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the U.K. on Wednesday.

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    While the EU are investing in self hosted, open source technologies to get away from the US, the UK is doing the opposite.

    Story of the UK in general.

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        It’s getting tiring hearing about the constant attacks on privacy and encryption around the world from the UK, US, EU, and AUS. The villainous wealthy elite parasites just want all of our data to sell to each other, and apparently, ethics can go hang.

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          The villainous wealthy elite parasites just want all of our data to sell to each other

          True, although in this case a huge motivator is to know if we are organizing against them.

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        I know. It’s not only an invasion of everyone’s privacy but also pretty fucking unworkable. Hopefully people in charge will realise just how unworkable it is in time. However…Guestures at the UK and OSA