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With numbers like four percent vs gender ratios around half, I don't think it can be blamed on gender. Astroturfers try to tell us that in the UK everyone in t
by VLM 12y ago
With numbers like four percent vs gender ratios around half, I don't think it can be blamed on gender.
Astroturfers try to tell us that in the UK everyone in the general public loves police surveillance, but when given a choice, it appears not to be as loved and appreciated.
- DanBC 12y agoThese filters have nothing to do with police surveillance. And you're wrong about how the UK public feels about surveillance. The UK has more CCTVs than most countries and we didn't get here by most of the public hating cctv. Here is a story from this year where police request men to give a DNA sample, and 500 men voluntarily give police a DNA sample. Are all these men "astrotrufers"? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30920277 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30920277 http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-30972723 http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-30972723 We have CCTV everywhere. People in the UK object when they think it's misused - councils checking whether people are using the right bins for example - but even then (councils checking whether people claiming to live in a school's catchmet area actually live there) you don't have to look hard for people defending that. If yu want to have any hope of changing the surveillance culture you need to accept that most people in UK just don't know much about surveillance and wouldn't care much if they did know.
- crdoconnor 12y ago>And you're wrong about how the UK public feels about surveillance. The UK has more CCTVs than most countries and we didn't get here by most of the public hating cctv. It helps that CCTV is pretty fucking useless. It's hardly the same thing to take a grainy video of you walking down the high street as it is to slurp up every email you've ever written.