[HN Gopher] 'Shocking' scale of UK government's files on critics...
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       'Shocking' scale of UK government's files on critics revealed
        
       Author : c420
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2023-11-18 18:19 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | h2odragon wrote:
       | Did they learn nothing from the USA? You don't do this in the
       | government, you "partner" with the private sector to make a non-
       | profit group, which then does the things government would rather
       | not be seen to be doing directly.
        
         | mistrial9 wrote:
         | definitely -- UK govvies appear to be leaning on an unequivocal
         | legitimacy; i.e. you can't do anything about it even if you
         | knew.
        
       | jjgreen wrote:
       | _Trying to extend the civil service code to me because I was
       | merely going to talk to an audience with a handful of civil
       | servants is utterly wrong. I'm not a revolutionary Trotskyite._
       | 
       | He isn't, anyone who was would call themselves a _Trotskyist_
       | rather than a _Trotskyite_ , the latter is reserved for Daily
       | Mail readers ... unless this is some kind of fiendish double-
       | bluff, ....
        
         | celticninja wrote:
         | He is Lithuanian/American and he is incredibly critical of the
         | USSR and Stalin and also incredibly well versed in the history
         | of the USSR in CEE. So I have no doubt he chose his words very
         | carefully.
        
       | arp242 wrote:
       | > In September, the Observer revealed how three early-childhood
       | education experts discovered that the Department for Education
       | tried to cancel invitations for them to speak at government-
       | funded events because they were judged to have been critical of
       | government policy.
       | 
       | "The thing is, you have spoken to the wrong expert. You've got to
       | ask the right expert. And you've got to know what an expert's
       | gonna advice you before he advises you."
        
       | acheong08 wrote:
       | The government should move to China if this is what they like.
       | Aren't we meant to be a free and democratic society?
        
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