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Where would the modern internet be without groups of people getting completely outraged by things that they shouldn't really worry about. See also: Every perso

Where would the modern internet be without groups of people getting completely outraged by things that they shouldn't really worry about. See also: Every person in the UK is caught on CCTV a billion times every single day, which is fed into a central database and used by the government. Every email is logged by the government. etc etc etc. This is the entire business model for "The daily mail" paper in the UK - get people completely scared to death about every single thing so they think the worlds falling apart and they need to buy the paper to keep up with it all. "There's pedophiles on everyones street!" "global warming will kill us all" "the government is spying on everyone" and so on for ever.

pbhjpbhj 17y ago
Where would the modern internet be without groups of people getting completely outraged by things that they shouldn't really worry about. You may not be outraged by the curtailment of our freedoms by a man who is unelected and has been booted out of post twice (at least) and who is spearheading a new copyright initiative immediately after staying at the pleasure of a media magnate, said initiative doing nothing for the public domain and everything for vested monopoly interests. You may not, but those of us who prefer not to enforce the profit of the super-rich by the rule of law, solely for the benefit of those rich, we should be outraged.
- bumblebird 17y ago
  It's only a few months until the whole government gets kicked out - including evil mandleson and his cronies. I have quite a bit of faith the Conservative government will undo a fair bit of the damage Labour have done.
  - cabalamat 17y ago
    > I have quite a bit of faith the Conservative government will undo a fair bit of the damage Labour have done. Actually the Conservatives broadly support this particular bit of damage. In fact they want disconnection of filesharers to happen sooner: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2009-11-09c.6.8 http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2009-11-09c.6.8 Furthermore, the Tories are also in with Rupert Murdoch -- they're widely suspected of having done a secret deal with him -- so they'd be likely to go along with any new restrictions on fair use etc that Murdoch wants in order to turn the net into a locked-down pay-per-view digital newspaper. (Murdoch's plans won't work, of course, but that won't stop the Tories pushing through harmful laws). So while the Tories will be better than Labour in some ways, they're sure to be worse in other ways: meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

pbhjpbhj 17y ago

Where would the modern internet be without groups of people getting completely outraged by things that they shouldn't really worry about. You may not be outraged by the curtailment of our freedoms by a man who is unelected and has been booted out of post twice (at least) and who is spearheading a new copyright initiative immediately after staying at the pleasure of a media magnate, said initiative doing nothing for the public domain and everything for vested monopoly interests. You may not, but those of us who prefer not to enforce the profit of the super-rich by the rule of law, solely for the benefit of those rich, we should be outraged.

bumblebird 17y ago
It's only a few months until the whole government gets kicked out - including evil mandleson and his cronies. I have quite a bit of faith the Conservative government will undo a fair bit of the damage Labour have done.
- cabalamat 17y ago
  > I have quite a bit of faith the Conservative government will undo a fair bit of the damage Labour have done. Actually the Conservatives broadly support this particular bit of damage. In fact they want disconnection of filesharers to happen sooner: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2009-11-09c.6.8 http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2009-11-09c.6.8 Furthermore, the Tories are also in with Rupert Murdoch -- they're widely suspected of having done a secret deal with him -- so they'd be likely to go along with any new restrictions on fair use etc that Murdoch wants in order to turn the net into a locked-down pay-per-view digital newspaper. (Murdoch's plans won't work, of course, but that won't stop the Tories pushing through harmful laws). So while the Tories will be better than Labour in some ways, they're sure to be worse in other ways: meet the new boss, same as the old boss.