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Ah yes, thought something like this. This is one of these laws, on itself it bad, but people will not realize, because they're - ironically - too busy on their
by yawaworht1978 5y ago
Ah yes, thought something like this.
This is one of these laws, on itself it bad, but people will not realize, because they're - ironically - too busy on their phones on social media....
Nobody will go protest in the streets over this.
But a couple 100 single of these shenanigans and the people will ask themselves how we ended up in this mess, and everyone will jump on the divide train and blame the "other" party, when it's really equally distributed usually.
Testimony to that is that nobody opposed this hard enough to bring it down.
The only bright side to this is, it appears the governments cannot easily access all things, despite five eyes and international collaboration.
I find if a case is bad enough for a warrant, then maybe deploying a keylogger or similar would be the better way. At least then it's handled by a specialist.
But delegating this to police officers? Hellno
- ploika 5y agoIreland isn't part of the Five Eyes though. I don't really think Helen McEntee's maternity leave is relevant either because she's in the same party as Heather Humphreys, and they are in a three-party coalition government. There's no main partisan divide like there is in the US or UK.
- rusk 5y agoThere’s no partisan divide? You’re having a laugh.
- ploika 5y agoThere is no main partisan divide like there is in the US or UK. We don't have a two party system. The last election was basically a three way tie, with a significant vote share split across another handful of small parties and independents. It's way more complex than just FG v SF.
- rusk 5y agoWe have FF+FG, a pantomime to collectively keep the conservatives in power, and we have everybody else. FF+FG have been in power almost continuously since the formation of the state.
- jmmcd 5y agoDo you really think Humphries just decided to introduce a bill while McEntee is on leave? Surely this bill would've been in preparation for months.