Yeah unfortunately one vote every 4 or 5 years is not enough granularity to weigh in on specific issues. Also, politicians lie about what they will do all the time.

Showing that a large amount of people are against an action, whether by petition or protest, is one of the tools we do have.

This particular piece of legislation has been in the works for two administrations of two different parties. We’re kind of sick of both of them so I think many people will likely vote for a 3rd party the next time around. Possibly the more progressive splinter group of our 'left" party.

Doesn’t stop us from continuing to push. Since they responded we got 300 000 more signatures.

Reminder that there is a petition for UK residents, now with 500 000 signatures: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

Reading the attached article, this seems to be a directive, rather than a law. We don’t know what shape the law will take, or whether it will actually be implemented… No?

Please correct me if I’m wrong. Not too familiar with this stuff.

There’s still time to push back, I would guess.

Not any more 😭

You should probably also consider CalyxOS, which supports most Pixel phones and, for me at least, seems to work with banking apps using microG while removing all of the pre installed Google bloat and providing a firewall.

That said, I haven’t tried GrapheneOS. From what I hear you can lock it down even more and there are more features.