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Neil Brown mastodon (AP)
Police have told anyone heading to see Swift in Cardiff that extra officers - including armed police, officers on horseback and facial recognition technology - would be deployed so people can expect a "safe and welcoming environment".


Nothing says “welcoming” quite like guns and live wide scale facial recognition cameras.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c044ymn4e1mo

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Pippin friendica

"Welcome" to nineteen eighty-four. Getting their doublethink practice in?

I suppose it'd only truly feel "safe and welcoming" if you were 100% sure such a system wouldn't take action against you. So either you'd have to have the warm glow of feeling you were in the "in group", where you could do no wrong and "obviously" the authorities wouldn't bother you, or you'd have to climb your way up the power structures to the point where you can make sure the rules (and the enforcement of them) wouldn't bother you.

So that's tory voters and tory politicians explained, I suppose, maybe, hmm.

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