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do you know why this sort of article is easily believable?
by nazgulnarsil 17y ago
do you know why this sort of article is easily believable?
- axod 17y agoBecause some people believe everything they read on Reddit? For example the tripe about the UK being overrun with CCTV cameras that are centrally monitored by the government. As more and more people get their news from the internet, and don't bother fact checking, this will only increase. Rumor will rule. Knee jerk will be standard. Sad really how mob rule works.
- bartl 17y agoThere are over 10000 cameras in the city of London alone. (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412867-tens-of-thousands-of-cctv-cameras-yet-80-of-crime-unsolved.do http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412867-tens-of-...) I'd call that pretty much "overrun", yes.
- axod 17y agoYes, and the vast majority of those are going to some crappy VHS tape, which tapes over the previous days tape. They are in place so that if a crime happens, the shop owner can replay the tape or give it to the police. Why would I care if individual shop owners want to put CCTV in their shop? The problem is, that people assume it's some big conspiracy, and all your movements are tracked by the government. It's all been setup by the government to spy on people. The reality however, is that in the 70s,80s, CCTV became so cheap that individual shop owners could buy them and have them as a little deterrent. Also "The city of London alone" is fact fudging. Most CCTV is going to be in the city of London as it's the capital. Elsewhere in the UK usage is going to be less.
- ErrantX 17y agoEnlighten us :P seriously though the entire piece should ring bells. Example: Most legal experts say it will become impossible for small businesses to offer WiFi access to their customers. Really? No citations there? Then the admission at the end that actually it probably wont affect them practically because they are too small....