Starmer - protests

[Baldman]

Starmer has apparently said that he is going to clamp down on the violent protesters.

Shared intelligence, wider deployment of facial recognition technology and preventive action, criminal behaviour orders to restrict their movements, before they can even board a train. In just the same way that we do with football hooligans.

Hang about. Isn’t this the bloke that ‘took the knee’ the last time we saw protests turn violent on our streets?

[Leeds Sandgrounder]

Starmer has apparently said that he is going to clamp down on the violent protesters.

Shared intelligence, wider deployment of facial recognition technology and preventive action, criminal behaviour orders to restrict their movements, before they can even board a train. In just the same way that we do with football hooligans.

Hang about. Isn’t this the bloke that ‘took the knee’ the last time we saw protests turn violent on our streets?

Can you support a cause without approving of everything done by people who also support that cause?

[DesCartes]

Starmer has apparently said that he is going to clamp down on the violent protesters.

Shared intelligence, wider deployment of facial recognition technology and preventive action, criminal behaviour orders to restrict their movements, before they can even board a train. In just the same way that we do with football hooligans.

Hang about. Isn’t this the bloke that ‘took the knee’ the last time we saw protests turn violent on our streets?

What has taking the knee got to do with the price of fish?

If they can make them work, these are sound proposals.

[Baldman]

Can you support a cause without approving of everything done by people who also support that cause?

Yes of course

[Leeds Sandgrounder]

Yes of course

Righto.

[Meerkat]

I thought facial recognition was racist?

[Leeds Sandgrounder]

I thought facial recognition was racist?

FACE-ist more like!!!

[Baldman]

Righto.

Ok. Odd place to make that point beneath a completely different subject. But at least we’ve found something we agree on

[Baldman]

I thought facial recognition was racist?

Not when it’s done to white people silly

[Leeds Sandgrounder]

Not when it’s done to white people silly

Could it be that the technology is not as good at distinguishing between black people's faces as it is with other people's faces?