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Summary: The war on privacy relies on conflating discreet life with a crime or publicly gathering (to make a point or be heard) being framed as an attack on public health. This is a video discussion about the right to assemble/gather and the rights associated with privacy in the UK, especially in light of the importance of demonstrations in a democratic society.

WIKILEAKS gave us Cablegate and it exposed many war crimes, as well as corporate corruption. Here in Britain the right to publicly gather is under attack. The same goes for privacy. It's easy to say that this is perfectly reasonable because of COVID-19, but some of the proposed solutions are neither effective nor proportional in the sense that they hamper human rights a lot more than they can safeguard the public.

Can people properly protest an extradition of Julian Assange, which is likely to be ruled on (or a decision formally released) tomorrow? Is the public being made powerless while oligarchs rake in trillions of dollars during a crisis? How much can or should society tolerate? ⬆

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