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Two men found guilty of cutting down famous Sycamore Gap tree (news.sky.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net to c/treehuggers@slrpnk.net

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Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were convicted of causing more than £620,000 worth of damage to the tree and more than £1,000 worth of damage to Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland.

On 27 September 2023, the pair drove 30 miles through a storm to Northumberlandfrom Cumbria, where they both lived, before felling the tree overnight in a matter of minutes.

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The difficulty is that living in a nation with a crumbling rule of law, I have little idea of what the police might go after me for in the future. And I refuse to silence myself to the extent required to navigate around their hypothetical future repression.

[–] strongoose@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's reasonable - security is always context sensitive. That said there are easy steps most users can take to make their communications less easily accessible - encrypting your phone and using end to end encrypted chat - for extra safety you could use a messenger that supports disappearing messages too (even if you're setting a long disappearance time, say 1 month).