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A lot of people in the UK don't know what surveillance powers the government has enacted into law. Nor do they know the plans the government has in their 2017 m
by cirrus-clouds 9y ago
A lot of people in the UK don't know what surveillance powers the government has enacted into law. Nor do they know the plans the government has in their 2017 manifesto.
I created a campaigning site to dissuade people from voting for the Conservatives in the election - I know that will be frowned up on here, but I wrote an entire section on the site to explain (in laypersons terms) what surveillance powers have been legislated and proposed by the Conservatives:
https://www.dontvoteconservativeuk.com/#security https://www.dontvoteconservativeuk.com/#security
- deepGem 9y agoIt does look like either the Labour or the Tories favour surveillance heavily. It makes me wonder, do the leaders of these parties actually believe that such surveillance can ensure security ? Or, is it that most of the common people see surveillance as a good security measure and the political parties are just appeasing these people. I can't help but extrapolate this situation to the scenario depicted in "V for Vendetta".
- thedlade 9y agoThe public aren't asking for any of this. They only use these cases as a sort of opportunity window to introduce laws that ban various types of porn
- zigzigzag 9y agoThere is also the opposite problem. The public aren't asking for it not to be done either. Internet surveillance isn't a hot button political topic either way. However, terrorism is. Hence the problem.