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- Comment on Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth 2 days ago:
you dismiss the historical status of pubs as community places by isolating me enjoying it as an individually me thing
Firstly, I haven’t done that. Secondly, this doesn’t make sense.
- Comment on Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth 3 days ago:
I do most of my social hangouts at pubs
Ah so the type of place where you hang out is the type of place that “should” be preserved. Now I understand why you think that.
historically it has not been the social centre of UK towns is false
I haven’t said that.
obv don’t go to a pub and take up space without giving them any money
LOL you think you can give me advice
- Comment on Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth 3 days ago:
It’s the cornerstone of interacting with your local community in the UK.
No it isn’t. My interactions with my local community never take place in a pub.
- Comment on Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth 3 days ago:
it’s a part of British culture that should be preserved
Why?
- Comment on Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says 4 days ago:
I haven’t suggested it shouldn’t be.
- Comment on Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says 4 days ago:
The goal should be
Why should it be?
- Comment on Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight 5 days ago:
This is a terrible article which seems to be for the purpose of poo-pooing the green Party’s policy in favour of… landlords… the Big Issue… on the side of landlords… WTF?
- Comment on Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs 1 week ago:
Cocaine? Absolutely not. Not that I’m against cocaine, it’s just that people on cocaine are really, really annoying.
So you’re for criminalising alcohol use then?
- Comment on Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs 1 week ago:
not legalisation, I don’t want to be seeing Tesco value acid available behind the counter
Legalisation can mean lots of things, including legalised drugs sales only from specialised pharmacies. This is the kind of approach advocated by legalisation proponents. “Legalisation” doesn’t mean “available in Tesco”.
- Comment on Britain is ‘a terrible place’ to sell medicines, says Pharma corporate executive 4 weeks ago:
For a lot of the world, certainly in Britain, supplying medicine to people who need it is a very different concept to pharmaceutical companies doing good business.
- Comment on HC will experience some planned outages over the next few days 4 weeks ago:
On a related subject, are there any out-of-band communication channels with admins in case of unexpected outages?
- Comment on Inquiry launched into phone ‘planted in Commons to play sex noises’ at Prime Minister Questions 5 weeks ago:
Jesus, this is what the UK has become. Following the US down into the gutter.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi music festival cancelled after backlash from locals 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
Apple was forced to follow EU regulations … so the EU can tell a foreign company
Apple isn’t a foreign company. Their EU headquarters are in Cork:
www.apple.com/careers/us/…/cork.html
They also have offices in Munich, Prague, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, Stuttgart, Barcelona and Stockholm:
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
thus must be bound to those laws
This wrong.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
they have an obligation(duty) to uphold British law
Let me get this straight, you’re claiming that non-UK citizens acting outside of the UK are subject to UK law?
how’s that hard to grasp
If you are claiming what it seems like you’re claiming then it’s not difficult to grasp, it’s just wrong.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
the point was the UK is not the only one trying to do it
I don’t see any evidence of the EU trying to do with the GDPR what the UK is trying to do with the CPA.
they can totally enforce the fine by restricting those businesses from doing business within their territory until they comply
That’s sanctioning, not enforcing a fine.
And yes they can do that but that’s not what Ofcom is talking about. Ofcom have explicitly stated that foreign citizens have “duties” under UK law. The word “duty” has a very specific meaning in English law, in fact it’s really one of the most basic concepts. It means there is an obligation on someone and if that obligation is not fulfilled then courts have the power to take action.
Sanctioning a foreign citizen doesn’t imply an obligation. There can’t be an obligation because a foreign citizen, by definition, is not subject to English law. Ofcom is claiming that foreign citizens are subject to English law.
I don’t know how you could get it more wrong.
LOL
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
Fine companies in other countries
The EU has no power in “other” countries, by which I presume you mean non-EU countries. It’s not possible for the EU to fine companies in non-EU countries. They could issue a fine but they have no power to enforce or collect the fine. The non-EU companies can quite legally just laugh at the EU and give them the finger.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
the GDPR does apply outside of the EU
What do you mean exactly? What do you mean by “apply”?
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
GDPR does this as well
I don’t understand what you’re referring to with the word “this”. What is it you believe the GDPR does as well?
- Comment on Created a lemmy community for Your Party 1 month ago:
Is it important?
Given that’s a British party and the participants will be mostly British and connecting from Britain, then yes.
Surely this is the strength of federation
I’m not sure what you think is a strength here. Just because you can create a community anywhere doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to ignore geography or jurisdiction.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
Ofcom began investigating 4chan over alleged violations of the Online Safety Act in June. On August 13, it announced a provisional decision and stated that 4chan had “contravened its duties”
How on Earth did a UK government office determine that a foreign entity is subject to UK laws? On the surface, this seems like extreme ignorance and stupidity on the part of Ofcom. Shameful.
- Comment on Created a lemmy community for Your Party 1 month ago:
The Lemmy instance where you created this community isn’t British.
- Comment on Created a lemmy community for Your Party 1 month ago:
Host
Marvin
Location
Fort Rock Data Center 207 SW Columbia St. Bend, OR, USA
Services
Matrix Lemmy Mastodon PeerTube Jitsi CryptPad File Sharing
:-/
- Comment on Do you have a high street full of gambling shops breeding poverty and addiction? I have a way to fight back 1 month ago:
I have a way to fight back
No, they don’t.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn on Britain’s New Left-Wing Party 1 month ago:
he hasn’t got a chance
You mean the MP who’s been consistently voted in to his seat since 1983, over 40 years? Who was leader of the opposition and a contender for prime minister? Who’s now forming a whole new party together with a bunch of other MPs at a time when the party that got voted into power in a landslide in response to the last shit show of a goverment has shown themselves to be no different in kind to said shit show? That guy?
You wish he didn’t have a chance.
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 1 month ago:
I disagree.
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 1 month ago:
As it suggests, the Ukrainian Maidan was, well, in Ukraine.
The article’s comment wasn’t limited to any particular country.
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 1 month ago:
We’ve experienced both street action and political violence, yes, and these are febrile times – but such things have never overthrown a government.
Uhh… might want to check out the Ukrainian maidan.
