Discussion i’ve had a idea 💡

[RemainingDubious]

If anyone in the uk is actually planning to ctb and you want to leave a note. maybe think about mentioning how the bbc has helped show you that the world isn't a nice place, and how they prove 24/7. Maybe consider saying if life was so amazing the bbc would point it out once in awhile but they don't which proves you're doing the right thing.

i wonder if the bbc will tell they story of the part they really play then?

 

[oneeyed]

I'm not in the UK but journalism isn't much different here. This story would never reach any broadcast, website, or newspaper. It paints them in a bad light (all journalism really) and they truly don't care anyways.

 

[wait.what]

(Addressing OP): I rather doubt it. I see nothing to indicate there's any serious concern about suicidal people here. As for why Angus McRidiculous is allowed to use state resources in such unfathomably stupid ways, it could be pure bureaucratic incompetence, in which the government's right hand can't be bothered to care what its left is doing. It could also be a calculated attempt to stir up enough unthinking outrage that the British public will all but beg to have its last fig leaves of privacy stripped from it. I don't think there's a government in this world that isn't made uneasy by the existence of cheap and widely available end to end encryption. As I understand it, the Online Security Bill already leaves room for the government to ban encryption in transactions involving British citizens and their assets. It would be interesting to see the UK government attempt a "stand and deliver" order aimed at Britons' Swiss or offshore bank accounts, and see it we may.

Edit: EFF's last post on the subject, from September of 2023: Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All