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Australian government refuses to disclose web snooping plan
- mtgx 14y agoThese types of new laws seem like a growing trend in the most advanced "democratic societies". Worst of all, the governments of such societies are trying their best to bypass the regular democratic processes and to avoid letting their citizens have any say on them.
- sdoering 14y agoSometimes i get the feeling, these kinds of democracies might just as well be called democratorships... ... some years ago, I had a saying: "Politics is the stage-play being shown, so that the people believe, they are living in a democracy."
- adestefan 14y agoThese types of laws are nothing new and are always a reaction to new forms of communications. If Man ever figures out how to communicate via telepathy, there will surely be someone that wants to write a law allowing that channel to be tapped.
- abecedarius 14y agoMisleading headline. They didn't suppress snooping, they refused to disclose the plan to snoop. (Which has been in the works since at least 2010 when another such call was denied, says the article.)