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Gamers, your country needs you: UK Gov asking gamers to join the military (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
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Introducing a direct recruitment route for cyber specialists, particularly targeting top gamers and coders. “If you are a top gamer or coder, your country needs you,” Healey said.

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[–] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

UK "defence".

Defence is when you protect your country's borders, not when you go around attacking other countries like they have been doing for the last decades. There's a word for it: offense.