<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#0080ff" vlink="#2e3436"><div><br></div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm spending some time in UK but I'm not British, so... what is the "right-to-rent" actually is?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Sylvia</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, 2017-02-04 at 09:21 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On 4 February 2017 09:09:05 CET, Stephan Eggermont <<a href="mailto:stephan@stack.nl">stephan@stack.nl</a>> wrote:
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On 03/02/17 21:05, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
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This is not about an "irrational" fear of "Muslims", it's the
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rational
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outcome of an actual event:
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No, it is the irrational outcome. There is no process in place to
ensure that people using sim cards are actually the ones registered.
There is no rational reason to assume that it will have any effect
on terrorists. It is security theatre, and extremely dangerous to our
freedoms.
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It also means the value of stolen ID documents on the black market goes up, increasing the risk to everybody who might be mugged at some point. This has been the most noticeable effect of the otherwise useless "right-to-rent" (a.k.a. mandatory racism by landlords) rules in the UK.
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