Are you sure? Most notices provide a list of partners. What needs to be provided is a list of who gets to see which data for which purpose.
Most lists I have ever seen are lists that are not informing me of that, especially the lengthy ones. The only ones that comply are very short lists by privacy conscious website owners.
I don't think so, you could use the official Linux build as far as I know. I think it needs a phone number but not necessarily a mobile device. I might be wrong though.
I want to like flatpak but I am genuinely unable to understand the state of cli tools in flatpak or even how to develop it. It all seems very weird to build upon as compared to docker
> There were great HN-related conversations to be had around DOGE and what it was (purportedly) trying to achieve
Were there? I just saw people blindly advocating and excusing their incompetence. The discussions were very polarized, not well thought out or supported with evidence, and not remotely productive. At least from what I saw.
Just FYI, there are some people that vastly exaggerate the security it provides. For the most part, you're just as safe using flatpak versions of applications.
Apart from the fact that this is extremely rare, the first vulnerability is not a complete escape. For example, any offline vault VM storing secrets stayed secure. This is just not happening with any other security approach.
Speculative sidechannel attacks have nothing to do with OS or compartmentalization technology, since they are the problem of CPUs. Nothing can help here, so this is irrelevant to this discussion. Except that Qubes Air will save you in the future: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/22/qubes-air/
> Apart from the fact that this is extremely rare,
So are bubblewrap escapes, which is the sandbox flatpak uses.
> the first vulnerability is not a complete escape.
It could potentially lead to one, and being able to obtain information from other VMs defeats much of the point of isolation, and so defeats much of the point of why people use qubes.
> For example, any offline vault VM storing secrets stayed secure. This is just not happening with any other security approach.
That's not true. Strong MAC would suffice, no VT-d needed.
> Speculative sidechannel attacks have nothing to do with OS or compartmentalization technology
Of course they do, in fact they have more to do with it than solutions like flatpak, which is why Qubes releases security advisories and patches to address those vulnerabilities.
>> Apart from the fact that this is extremely rare,
> So are bubblewrap escapes, which is the sandbox flatpak uses.
Not only they are much more frequent, including possibly kernel privilege escalations, not affecting Qubes, - the bubblewrap repository itself says that you have to be really careful to stay secure with it, even in the lack of vulnerabilities. This is not what people should seriously rely on. Again, my secrets in vault VM are safe since the introduction of VT-d in Qubes 4.0 in ~2021. There is no comparably secure OS in the world.
I don't understand your unsubstantiated attack on Qubes.
> and being able to obtain information from other VMs defeats much of the point of isolation
It does not. Even if a VM becomes hostile and starts reading the RAM, it will not get any privileges in any other VM. Also, it can be easily cleaned. Also, you can just stop all VMs when performing a secure operation. Tell me how you protect yourself in such case with Flatpak.
> Not only they are much more frequent, including possibly kernel privilege escalations,
No, that's simply not the case.
> not affecting Qubes,
Maybe, qubese would still be vulnerable to kernel vulnerabilities even if they didn't allow VM escape - anything in the disposable VM would be at risk.
> the bubblewrap repository itself says that you have to be really careful to stay secure with it, even in the lack of vulnerabilities.
Source? I assume they are referring to misconfigurations.
> There is no comparably secure OS in the world.
You've said before you don't have a lot of security knowledge and it continues to show. Qubes is one specific approach to a problem not suitable for all goals, it's useful for hobbyists who use browsers and such. Anything in the disposable VM is still at risk.
SEL4, ASOS and CuBit are all more secure than Qubes. Qubes doesn't offer any more security than having a bunch of different machines to do different tasks on. Not even airgapped. If the machines have a vulnerability, then whatever is on the machine is fair game.
> I don't understand your unsubstantiated attack on Qubes.
There is no attack, I'm just refuting your preposterous zealotry for it. It's fine for what it is, but you make it much more than what it is. The developers of Qubes would absolutely disagree with your claims.
> Even if a VM becomes hostile and starts reading the RAM, it will not get any privileges in any other VM.
You keep repeating this without providing any actual statistics. I provided statistics about Qubes vulnerabilities, https://www.qubes-os.org/security/xsa/. Show me the numbers please.
> anything in the disposable VM would be at risk.
This just shows that you don't understand the security approach of Qubes. You do not store anything important in a disposable. You run it specifically for one task of opening something untrusted and then it's destroyed. It's in the name: Disposable. Moreover, nothing prevents you from running Bubblewrap inside Qubes. Then one single VM will be as secure as your whole setup, and in addition, you get reliable isolation.
> Source? I assume they are referring to misconfigurations
> bubblewrap is not a complete, ready-made sandbox with a specific security policy.
> As a result, the level of protection between the sandboxed processes and the host system is entirely determined by the arguments passed to bubblewrap.
> Everything mounted into the sandbox can potentially be used to escalate privileges.
This is not a robust system designed for security first. You can use this to be (much) more secure than otherwise, but it's not a security-oriented design, unlike Qubes.
> Anything in the disposable VM is still at risk.
Which means nothing. Disposable can't store anything, it's destroyed every time you stop it.
> You've said before you don't have a lot of security knowledge and it continues to show.
I see the same about you. You keep repeating some myths about Qubes OS based on misunderstandings of its security approach. I don't have to be a professional in security to understand simple concepts. Qubes is not an OS made for professionals but for users.
> Qubes doesn't offer any more security than having a bunch of different machines to do different tasks on.
> SEL4, ASOS and CuBit are all more secure than Qubes.
Do I have to trust you on this, or do you have any reasonable reference to security people? You don't even provide your threat model when saying this, which clearly shows how amateur your approach to security is.
> I'm just refuting your preposterous zealotry for it
Relying on professionals in the field is not zealotry. In contrast, you show exactly the latter. I see no references.
> The developers of Qubes would absolutely disagree with your claims.
> You keep repeating this without providing any actual statistics. I provided statistics about Qubes vulnerabilities, https://www.qubes-os.org/security/xsa/. Show me the numbers please.
You can find this yourself. For any software running in the guest OS, you can look up it's security history.
> This just shows that you don't understand the security approach of Qubes. You do not store anything important in a disposable. You run it specifically for one task of opening something untrusted and then it's destroyed. It
I understand it perfectly, but you seem to be missing my point. Yes, the qubes are disposable, but you need to have information in them while you are using them, yes? So, you make a new qubes to do your taxes, your tax information is in the qubes because you need it to do that. While the qube is running, if it is vulnerable, then that information is at risk. I get that it is no longer at risk once the qube is destroyed, but that is irrelevant to my point.
Consider an example, back in 2024 if you were running SSH in a Qubes for some reason, you would likely be vulnerable to the regreSSHion vulnerability. Sure, an attacker could only access what was on the disposable VM, but that could still be a lot.
> This is not a robust system designed for security first. You can use this to be (much) more secure than otherwise, but it's not a security-oriented design, unlike Qubes.
Neither is qubes. It's designed for specific use cases, and doesn't do much to protect the information running within a qube aside from destroying it after disposing of it.
> Which means nothing. Disposable can't store anything, it's destroyed every time you stop it.
It's at risk while the VM is running, which is the point.
No, it doesn't. Those points are rather nonsense. Malware that can bridge airgapped systems? Sure, if you have a compromised USB stick and stupidly run something from it, I guess. The disposable VM would be at risk also.
> Do I have to trust you on this, or do you have any reasonable reference to security people? You don't even provide your threat model when saying this, which clearly shows how amateur your approach to security is.
You have no security knowledge at all, though, you just repeat your chosen solution because it's FLOSS. It makes this discussion very frustrating. Do you understand anything about capabilities, mandatory access controls or formal verification?
> Relying on professionals in the field is not zealotry.
You are exaggerating claims you can't backup in a field you don't understand due to the software meeting your only real criteria, being FLOSS. That is absolutely zealotry.
> This is plain false:
Not only do your links not support your exaggerated claims at all, meaning I am correct the author would absolutely not agree with you, but the FAQ entry dismissing formal verification and safe languages refers to a paper from 2010 - back when Rust didn't even exist. You might not know this, but the tech world moves pretty fast...
Do me a favor, spend some time with your favorite FLOSS AI and ask it why SEL4 would be considered superior to Qubes from a security perspective.
You refuse to provide any references. I don't see a reason to continue the discussion.
You also reply to my references with shallow dismissals with no substance presenting that as facts ("Not only do your links not support your exaggerated claims at all")
You give examples how Qubes can't save you from absolutely everything. It's true. Yet your original claim is that Flatpac is similarly secure and you failed to explain how it would protect from the same problems.
Why is there a need for references? Do you not understand how VMs work? Do you dispute that software running in the VM can be vulnerable?
> You also reply to my references with shallow dismissals with no substance presenting that as facts ("Not only do your links not support your exaggerated claims at all")
Because your 'references' don't support your claims, it's that simple. You can't just copy and paste links and act like you have provided evidence when the links don't match. Your claim doesn't appear on the Bubblewrap github page at all.
> Yet your original claim is that Flatpac is similarly secure and you failed to explain how it would protect from the same problems.
Vulnerable software running in a Bubblewrap sandbox and in a Qubes VM are both similarly vulnerable to software vulnerabilities, and it is unlikely an attacker would be able to escape the sandbox or the VM. I grant that escaping the sandbox is easier and more common, but not by much.
Your first key point was that Bubblewrap vulnerabilities happen all the time, and you've yet to support that. The only 'reference' you provided was to the Bubblewrap github page.
> They do not exist, only open-weight ones do.
And of course you don't trust anything that isn't FLOSS, right?
Instead of having a million different tabs open, use a tab session manager, save the stuff you want to read later, and keep open only stuff pertinent to things you are working on.
Prioritize your projects to have actionable goals.
When you procrastinate, try to do so by being productive on smaller projects.
Be aware of your own nature, and try to exert control over it. Recognize that not every idea or desire is useful, and learn to discard the ones that are not and investigate or give more attention to the ones that are.
Organization, take notes and organize them. I often have a scratchpad textfile open, that I then organize into sections (e.g. app ideas, ideas for specific code projects, movie ideas, whatever), break these up further into project or topic files. The ones that grow and get fleshed out are the ones worth pursuing.
Have a healthy sleep and recreation routine to not get burned out.
Leaning a little into the the distractions, and building processes to quickly search and hop between things had made it better for me.
At the very least opening tabs with Ctrl+T, tab search with Ctrl+Shift+A, quickly closing them with Ctrl+W is my main workflow in Chrome-based browsers.
Once I get my speed up, I find distractions don't occur as often.
Emacs, org-mode, magit, and AI, combined with good sleep, weight lifting, stimulants, have almost completey nullified my ADHD problems.
I have a few text files open at any one time. One is for a diary I keep, which changes for each month, so for example at the moment I have '2026 01.txt' open. I have a general to-do file and a tech todo file, and then notes.txt. When my notex.txt grows too long, which I define as having to scroll at all, I start to break it up.
When I break it up, I personally use latex files. I know everyone loves markdown, but I'm not a fan of Obsidian (closed source and electron, ugh), so I fell in love with TexStudio.
I have keybindings for simple macros to insert sections and subsections that I can quickly name, and these display in the navigation tree very well. TexStudio also allows multiple tex files open at once with a tabbedinterface, and allows saving sessions, so I can open one file to open all my, say, 'ai app ideas' notes. I've found this to work better for myself than any other available app or solution.
Eventually, I'd like to release a fork which would mainly be trimming stuff out rather than really adding anything in, but it's far from a priority for me at the moment.
I have so many text files (technically wikis and GDocs text docs, but I'm not doing more than lines of text). I was talking to a coworker today about our graveyard of pen and paper notebooks, todo apps, reminder thingies, post-its..
I need two things: ubiquity, so that I can add ideas, todos, etc. wherever I am; and exaggerated simplicity so that I don't end up turning the note solution into its own project that's abandoned or exchanged in a year.
Force yourself to use the same paper journal you carry around. Keep writing whatever comes in your mind, literally everything. Re-read the last day at day's end. Mitigation tecnique to empty your brain, leaving trails.
The problem is most Brits, at least on HN, seem to deny what is happening and/or support it. People being arrested for holding up blank signs at Charles' coronation was ridiculous and nothing like it has happened in the US, but anytime that's brought up they pivot to mass shootings in the US or some other whataboutism.
I was curious about the "blank sign" story because it's slightly different from what I remembered reading. As far as I can tell, this is the incident you're referring to:
On 12 September, Charles addressed parliament as king for the first time. The Metropolitan police called in reinforcements in case of protests. Powlesland, who works nearby, walked from Parliament Square to Downing Street and back with his blank piece of paper. “Then a guy from Norfolk police came up and spoke to me, and that was the video that went viral.” Powlesland recorded the encounter on his phone. “He asked for my details, I asked why and he said, ‘I want to check you’re OK on the Police National Computer.’ I said, ‘I’ve not done anything wrong, so I’m not giving you them.’ I wanted to test it without getting arrested. So I asked, ‘If I wrote “Not my king” on the paper, would I get arrested?’ and he said, ‘Probably, because it would be a breach of the Public Order Act; it would be offensive.’” Was he right? Powlesland laughs. “No! Just having something someone else finds offensive is not a criminal offence because then pretty much anything could be.”
I'm glad that was only a single instance, I had misremebered it as being multiple. I think the bigger isser then is people arrested for holding up signs saying "not my king" or similar, of which there were at least 64[0].
I am convinced that a good bit of this is paid astroturfing and another segment is people who work in government or government contracting. Brits generally seem more open to government intrusion, it’s true, but in my experience they don’t go out of their way to defend things like this. It’s more of a passive acceptance.
I think tribalism is the simpler explanation. One of the worst offenders I saw was a guy on here who wrote one of the new generation shells written in go...went out of his way to say the US had the same behavior as the UK, arresting people holding a blank sign, except his evidence was the disproportionate shooting of black people by police. An entirely unrelated issue. The point was though he was flailing due to feeling defensive, and unable to take a step back and analyze the criticisms objectively. This is super common behavior in pretty much all countries, and I think it's a huge problem.
True, now that you mention it I’ve seen the same sort of thing from people who are definitely not bots. Although, you can’t discount the possibility that they do some government or law enforcement work as a consultant. The full throated defense of police state tactics is unreal. (For what it’s worth, there are plenty of Americans who show up in Palantir/Flock threads doing the same thing, and I have the same suspicions there.)
For a current example look at the other guy replying to my comments, earnestly trying to equate 'free speech zones' in the US which have not been a thing in years, maybe more than a decade, with people in the UK being arrested for holding up blank signs.
I can't imagine it's paid work because what would be the point? It's not like he is influencing anyone's opinions.
OK. SO, one city decided to do that, around a convention where there was very likely reasonable security concerns. Not sure I agree with it, but it's hardly a national issue. Look at all the no kings and anti-ice protests nation wide not confined in any way as evidence.
Fair enough. People were just arrested for holding up signs like 'abolish monarchy' or 'not my king', and the person holding up a blank sign was intimidated by police. Slightly better, I guess.
You've backtracked from your 'blank sign' position. I'm pointing out that your "People were just arrested for holding up signs like 'abolish monarchy'" might be on similarly shaky ground.
If it's not clear, I'm also heavily implying that you should be questioning the veracity of whatever source you're getting this easily-debunked tripe from.
> You've backtracked from your 'blank sign' position.
I wouldn't say backtracked. I acknowledged a correction. The pont still stands, people are being arrested and/or intimidated by police for expressing a non-hatespeech, non-violent opinion.
> I'm pointing out that your "People were just arrested for holding up signs like 'abolish monarchy'" might be on similarly shaky ground.
I gave a source elsewhere in this thread.
> If it's not clear, I'm also heavily implying that you should be questioning the veracity of whatever source you're getting this easily-debunked tripe from.
It's not tripe, and if you want to attempt to go ahead and debunk it. I was wrong about the arrest for the blank sign as admitted, I'm not wrong about people being arrested for holding up signs expressing non-hatespeech, non-violent opinions, for which sources are abundant.
And look at you - making incorrect assertions about both free speech zones (they are still used) and your central point about the arrest of a protestor who it turns out wasn't arrested.
It's sad that you're not going to walk away from this discussion thinking "Huh, maybe I wasn't very well informed, it's pretty terrible in both countries so calling out the UK as significantly worse might actually be wrong" but instead believe you were attacked by unreasonable, tribal British people defending authoritiarianism.
But that's arguing on the internet I guess.
By the way, here's another example of the use free speech zones and the arrests of people for having their say -
"Since state officials created a “free speech zone,” local police continue to make arrests that have “no apparent purpose other than just intimidating people away from that line, and sending a message that they’re going to be controlling the area with force,” said civil rights attorney Joe DiCola."
Suppression of protest is unfortunately a popular thing for governments in a lot of places right now. It's as bad (if not worse) in Australia, where I live, especially in New South Wales where they seem determined to find a pretext to ban any and all marches.
And to make it absolutely clear - I do not support any of it nor am I defending the actions of the UK authorities. Also not a monarchist, that family of parasites needs to be stripped of all powers, lands and assets stolen from the British and other peoples, and I was disgusted by what the British authorities did to suppress dissent leading up to the coronation of King big-ears.
> making incorrect assertions about both free speech zones (they are still used)
My assertion was that "they haven't been a thing", and they haven't. Your sentence implied they were a nationwide issue still, and they very simply haven't been. Again, the numerous nationwide protests easily demonstrate that point.
> your central point about the arrest of a protestor who it turns out wasn't arrested.
At least 64 people were for simply holding up signs saying "not my king". The guy holding up blank paper was intimidated by the cops, which sure, is better than being arrested, but not great.
> It's sad that you're not going to walk away from this discussion thinking "Huh, maybe I wasn't very well informed, it's pretty terrible in both countries so calling out the UK as significantly worse might actually be wrong"
What's sad is you're being the very example of someone being overly defensive about the UK's decline instead of just agreeing these are real issues. This isn't a competition, I think the US is going in a horrible direction as well, andnot once did I claim the UK was 'significantly worse' - that's a strawman birthed from your defensiveness.
> but instead believe you were attacked by unreasonable, tribal British people defending authoritiarianism.
I do think you are being tribal and unreasonable, yes.
> But that's arguing on the internet I guess.
Unfortunately, but it's honestly only a minority of people who act like that. Reasonable people wouldn't be this deep into the conversation and would just have agreed, yeah, the British government overreached against protestors and some other examples of overreach appear concerning if indicative of a trend.
But, nah, let's just defend King and Country without stopping to actually analyze or self-reflect.
> My assertion was that "they haven't been a thing", and they haven't. Your sentence implied they were a nationwide issue still, and they very simply haven't been.
I gave you another example from last year, but it was in an edit so you might have missed it.
> Again, the numerous nationwide protests easily demonstrate that point.
Protest marches occur regularly in the UK as well, so that's evidence it's fine there?
People were arrested for protesting at an event, the coronation. This is the same sort of thing free speech zones have been used to suppress in the US. Sure, the last time they were used in the exact same way was probably under Bush Jnr, but they're still used where protest is considered inconvenient (like the ICE protests in the article I linked above).
> not once did I claim the UK was 'significantly worse'
Not with those exact words, but it was heavily implied with your repetition of emphasis on the guy being arrested (or not) for holding a piece of paper.
> being overly defensive about the UK
> Reasonable people wouldn't be this deep into the conversation and would just have agreed, yeah, the British government overreached against protestors and some other examples of overreach appear concerning if indicative of a trend.
> But, nah, let's just defend King and Country without stopping to actually analyze or self-reflect.
Do you have no reading comprehension at all? I have agreed with that, several times. I haven't defended the actions of the UK once. When you directly asked me if it was a problem, I said yes it's awful. The King can go #### himself.
OK, I'm done with this conversation, at some point dang will be along to put an end to it anyway I imagine, as it's fruitless.
> I gave you another example from last year, but it was in an edit so you might have missed it.
It doesn't really matter though, the point was it hasn't been a national issue in over a decade, and that remains the case.
> Protest marches occur regularly in the UK as well, so that's evidence it's fine there?
The point was people were being arrested in the UK simply for holding up signs. You tried to equate free speech zones with that, but as I said it's an entirely unrelated matter, a desperate whataboutism sprung from defensiveness.
> Sure, the last time they were used in the exact same way was probably under Bush Jnr,
So, over a decade ago like I said.
> but they're still used where protest is considered inconvenient (like the ICE protests in the article I linked above).
There are giant protests all over the country. Free speech zones don't make the news because they are not an issue. No one is being impeded.
> Not with those exact words, but it was heavily implied with your repetition of emphasis on the guy being arrested (or not) for holding a piece of paper.
Not at all, you inferred it. I've been consistently clear that I think the UK is going down a bad path but in a very different way from the US, I never said worse.
> I have agreed with that, several times. I haven't defended the actions of the UK once. When you directly asked me if it was a problem, I said yes it's awful.
Honestly, only once that I'm aware of, and I had to drag it out of you. All your posts are pushing back, which gives the impression you want to defend the problems being mentioned.
> OK, I'm done with this conversation, at some point dang will be along to put an end to it anyway I imagine, as it's fruitless.
I shan't expect a reply then. Cheers. Hopefully we can have a more productive discussion on a different topic in the future.
I was talking about protestors being arrested for holding up signs, he said the same thing happened in the US but his evidence was the disproportionate shooting of black people by police in the US, which while very bad is an entirely different issue.
Because it is massively exaggerated by those with an agenda to distract from the US.
But go on, tell me about how “free speech zones” are meaningfully different to this. You won’t be arrested so long as you stay in your zone down the street and round the corner and out of sight.
The UK has serious problems, but reading Americans catastrophising over this stuff as I have been for a couple of decades now is always incredible. Take the beam from your own eyes. And stop believing lies about the streets of London being a war zone.
> Because it is massively exaggerated by those with an agenda to distract from the US.
I don't think there has to be any negative motive. I'm not from the US or the UK but have lived in both countries, so feel I can be somewhat objective. What's going on in both countries is disturbing to me, but they have differences with what they are doing.
> But go on, tell me about how “free speech zones” are meaningfully different to this. You won’t be arrested so long as you stay in your zone down the street and round the corner and out of sight.
That hasn't been a thing for a long time. There have been nationwide protests the last few days not restricted to any kind of 'free speech zone'.
Consider what you are trying to defend: holding up a blank sign. Are you really OK with that? You really think that is reasonable?
> The UK has serious problems, but reading Americans catastrophising over this stuff
Pointing out a legitimate concern is not catastrophising anything.
> And stop believing lies about the streets of London being a war zone.
It’s still the law, was expanded under Obama and is used widely. It is used to control dissent at events where protest would be unsightly, much as the UK incident you brought up.
> Arresting people for holding up a blank sign is very different and much worse.
On the contrary, it’s no different whatsoever from corralling away protest until it’s out of sight in an approved zone, and arresting anyone who expresses dissent in sight.
It’s exactly the same use of police in concealment of dissent by the state.
> Do you agree it was a problem
Of course, it’s fucking awful. It’s your contention that “nothing like this ever happened in the US” that I took issue with - it does and it’s entirely routine.
This is my very point - the UK is used as some sort of out-there example of Orwellian repression, but the US, often painted in contrast as some sort of bastion, albeit a troubled one, is usually doing exactly the same damn thing.
It’s in this thread. We have your assertions above, and below we have someone decrying how unimaginable it would have been for a government to attempt to wholesale spy on people’s communications two decades ago, seemingly completely unaware of the activities of the NSA in AT&T and other companies’ data infrastructure in the US, revealed in 2006.
> On the contrary, it’s no different whatsoever from corralling away protest until it’s out of sight in an approved zone, and arresting anyone who expresses dissent in sight.
You are not being genuine here IMO, and this seems to be a case of the very tribalism I spoke of. The two are not remotely the same. One is restricting a protest to a zone. The other is punishing people for what they are saying, even when what they are saying is a blank piece of cardboard.
> It’s your contention that “nothing like this ever happened in the US” that I took issue with - it does and it’s entirely routine.
> ...
> the US, often painted in contrast as some sort of bastion, albeit a troubled one, is usually doing exactly the same damn thing.
Can you cite an example of people in the US being arrested for holding up a blank piece of cardboard?
As another poster has already pointed out to you, the person holding the blank piece of paper was not arrested. A number of the arrests of anti-monarchy protestors were subsequently ruled unlawful (e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyenzdz66wo).
All of this was widely reported in the British media and generally agreed to be a bad thing, so it doesn't really fit with your narrative of Brits being in denial about these problems.
By being sloppy with the facts you're only reinforcing Nursie's point that much of the discussion around these issues on HN is based on exaggeration and poorly sourced claims. That's what people actually object to, but you misinterpret these objections as a defense of police overreach.
> As another poster has already pointed out to you, the person holding the blank piece of paper was not arrested.
I was under the impression it was not a single incident, but that's great that it wasn't.
The bigger problem, though, was people being arrested for holding up "not my king" or similar signs. According to one site[0], there were 64 arrests that day. I don't think it matters that no charges were filed or whatever, what matters is they were taken at the time for expressing an opinion.
> All of this was widely reported in the British media and generally agreed to be a bad thing, so it doesn't really fit with your narrative of Brits being in denial about these problems.
That's also good to know. I should have been clearer, but I meant within the context of my experience online. I also don't know that they are truly in denial, it just seems they are overly defensive about it and want to point out the US is worse in various ways.
> That's what people actually object to, but you misinterpret these objections as a defense of police overreach.
I'm misinterpreting anything, and certainly not in this discussion. In past discussions, closer to the coronation, there were Brits being very active in downplaying the arrests, that to me would seem to be denying there was an issue. If it was widely reported in British media as a bad thing, it would seem these particular people being in denial were outliers.
Ok, but please just do a quick search and check your facts before kicking off a long discussion thread on a false basis. I promise you that a lot of the pushback you're getting from Brits is down to the factual inaccuracies and exaggerations in your posts, not any great love we have for police crackdowns on peaceful protests.
> Ok, but please just do a quick search and check your facts before kicking off a long discussion thread on a false basis.
My facts here would have been previous HN discussions that would have been very hard to find.
> I promise you that a lot of the pushback you're getting from Brits is down to the factual inaccuracies and exaggerations in your posts
No, that isn't the case, and you're not in a position to promise that; it's an assumption you're making, and I would ask you to question your motivation for doing so.
In the previous posts I was using as an example discussion the coronation, people were downplaying protestors being arrested for holding up signs. Nothing was being exaggerated, all the facts were accurate as they had just happened - sources were abundant.
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