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gib444 • yesterday at 7:06 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Yup. In the UK you can be arrested for almost anything, have silence used against you, subject to warrant-less search of your home, compelled to decrypt devices, stopped in your vehicle for any reason etc. They have an angle for everything. Our legal system has accumulated a ton of narrowly defined powers

But then again we don't fear police and ICE shooting us dead and our government wasn't subject to a coup in 2021, so there is that. Swings and roundabouts