Kevin BeaumontThe US Government has issued an executive order demanding employees snitch on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility initiatives by emailing: [email protected]
Just in case you wanted an email address for paywalls, mailing lists etc.
tiny_m@GossiTheDog I googled that and found this https://www.chcoc.gov/content/initial-guidance-regarding-deia-executive-orders which is pretty chilling stuff tbh.
betalars 
@home@tiny_m SCREAMING
@betalars I don't think until I read that , that I'd fully understood how scary the new administration is. I'm from the UK and I've never lived abroad. Our govt does some shady stuff but we do also have a fairly reliable legal system that would prevent this sort of stuff, so its really hard to imagine what it's like being in a country where you don't have that sort of protection for civil rights.
edit: you can all stop replying about the EHCR now. That wasn't the point of what I was getting at
@tiny_m I'm in germany and the only thing I keep thinking is I am so thankful the Americans made sure to really and thoroughly future-proof our constitution and I'm completely dumbfounded as to why they didn't proof theirs like at all.
I am so sorry for the good people that still live there.
@betalars I'm sure everyone thinks this about other people's governments but I find their whole election process completely baffling with the electoral college and popular vote and then how the high court changes so their entire federal legal system is also contingent on political bias. It seems very flawed, but then our house of Lords is also just a bunch of people who get to vote on our entire legal system just because they are rich so it's no better. we don't even have a constitution
Steve Popovich@tiny_m @betalars it would take forever to explain our royally f*ed up political system over here in historical terms, but to oversimplify, it seems to come back to the "original sin" of our nation, that at its beginning, only white, male landowners were full citizens with voting rights. So, originally the wealthy (by the standards of the day) had the power. Since then, we've never come to terms with the outsized political influence that wealth provides, because the entrenched wealthy interests don't want it to happen. We really need to get money out of politics.
@sspopovich good luck with that now o_O
David-TWe still have the protection of the ECHR! It's separate from the EU.
Despite the Tories (and the gutter press) making noises about leaving (repeatedly), they never did.
@yadt yeah I guess the point I was making was we have a lot of legal barriers that would prevent something like this happening where we live. I'm pretty sure if you tried to put an entire department on garden leave because their job involved preventing employment discrimination that's pretty strong grounds for constructive dismissal or calling your union to discuss a tribunal hearing. Especially for the civil service
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@tiny_m @betalars ECHR still applies here - its from the Council of Europe (which the UK is still part of), not the EU (which we left). It /is/ confusing as the two organisations have common roots and are linked in many ways, but I think even Reform UK would struggle to get Britain out of the Council of Europe (unless they actually get us expelled, or the UK splits apart)