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Notorious Donald Trump-backing Tufton Street has its internet cables cut by activists (www.thecanary.co)

submitted 2 days ago by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Activists from Shut The System sabotaged telecommunications cables leading to far-right lobbyists’ headquarters at 55 Tufton Street on Saturday 4 January.

They passed a note under the door saying this:

The greed-fuelled climate denialists and racists in this building are silencing warnings about the lethal risks of climate change while sewing hatred and division across our communities, all to prop up their wealthy, corporate friends and funders.

Shut The System does not tolerate murder and racism. We have cut off your Wi-Fi in defiance against the millions of deaths on your hands.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The only people who call Wi-Fi internet are people that don't know what either are.

Technologically electorate people can be found all over the world but it's not evidence of a language thing.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 21 hours ago

I mean you are clearly in the UK (or at the very least registered with a UK instance for some other obscure reason) so surely you've noticed that almost everyone there outside of those working in telecoms and IT calls the internet "The WiFi"? I agree that the only people who confuse the two terms are technologically illiterate, but sadly that is a significant number of people. I worked there in telecoms for 5 years and it was one of the first things I noticed when talking to people with anything related to internet services.