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subarctictoday at 6:34 PM3 repliesview on HN

I've noticed a lot of bad digital rights stuff on HN over the last couple weeks - more pushes on age verification, attacks on end-to-end encryption, and now this. Is there something about the time of year? Maybe because the world cup is coming and people will be distracted?


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boothbytoday at 8:05 PM

In my hometown, we're quashing human rights to make room for the world cup! It's not a smokescreen, it's the justification.

https://www.pivotlegal.org/city_of_vancouver_s_new_fifa_byla...

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fidotrontoday at 6:46 PM

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q3x19ddl7o is perhaps an unintentionally good summary of this situation.

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nitrixtoday at 6:45 PM

I'm doubtful the venn diagram intersection of engineers and the world cup is as big as you think it is.

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