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What equivalent or similar actions could be taken against GCHQ in the UK?
by jdimov 13y ago
What equivalent or similar actions could be taken against GCHQ in the UK?
- fit2rule 13y agoNone. The only way to get rid of the GCHQ in the UK is revolution.
- junto 13y agoIn ten years time, this comment of yours will automatically place you on a list of 'dissidents'. You will be targeted for heightened (full) surveillance. Your phone will be tracked, all email and phone calls recorded and scanned automatically for review by a machine. You will not be allowed to fly, or find yourself in the queue for "special searches". You will be subject to stop and search on the street under the anti terrorism act, though no policeman will actually know why you are on that list. All of this will happen automatically. No person will have triggered this process, nor intervene on your behalf. Every TSA agent or UK equivalent will have no idea why you have been marked in the system as "terrorist/dissident". You will simply be treated as such. There will be no recourse. Your children, your siblings and your parents, plus your friends will have a slightly higher weighted bayesian 'terrorist' score placed on their files, because you know them. Welcome to the world of tomorrow. Welcome to the real Skynet.
- madaxe_again 13y agoYou have just articulated the principle problem with autocracy, be it by man or machine, succinctly.
- tzakrajs 13y agoBraziiiil...
- fit2rule 13y agoActually, unless I misunderstand your attempt at wry irony, I believe that this world is now.
- dd36 13y agoJack Bauer
- moocowduckquack 13y agoContinuously broadcast "The Archers" on all available frequencies.
- WalterSear 13y agoA cure worse than the disease.
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- WalterSear 13y agoNoooooo! Stahhp.
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoCan you elucidate why the UK populus needs to turn to guerilla tactics against GCHQ? If you can then you've a platform on which, instead, to press for political reform. I'd very much like to hear a succinct elucidation before anyone says that the political process is too broken to make viable such change as is necessary.