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El Reg reports that the coalition government in the UK wants to push through a new surveillance law that forces ISPs to keep data for 12 months.
It's the latest in a series of attempts from the Theresa May-led Home Office to legislate on communications data, known colloquially as the snooper's charter.
The latest bid to revive May's unloved plan comes after a recent decision from judges in the European Union's highest court ruled that the Data Retention Directive was "invalid".
We really are doing our American cousins proud.
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Tuesday July 08 2014, @12:10PM
If I were British I would be voting UKIP [ukip.org], thank you for giving them free advertising and please continue. I would like to hear your opinions on those non-whites who not only vote for them but represent them because that kind of spiel is always funny to listen to. Would you call them "Uncle Tom" or have you updated your "anti-racist" vocabulary to the contemporary "coconut" aka "white on the inside"? No don't switch on your brain; you're perfect just the way you are :)
As was recently quipped at Mock The Week [wikipedia.org] (not verbatim): 'everybody was told how bad and racist these people were and people in general listened and said "yeah that sounds like the party for me" and went to vote for them' :D
A good show, and nice to see some criticism of the BBC from a BBC show and even nicer to know it is in vain. By the way I'd vote for Dara Ó Briain [wikipedia.org] too, maybe that's the tactic they should go for (an Irish prime minister of the United Kingdom eh?) :)
If anyone close to Dara notices this then please pay attention to how I managed to write his Gaelic Ó correctly: it's the power of the Linux compose key! And my keyboard is some kind of combined multi-Scandinavian monstrosity with three different colors of letters and doesn't have any key with that character on it, however I suspect I will have to replace it with an appropriate HTML Unicode entry in the preview (I know it's already on the bug-list, I'm not complaining).
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(Score: 1) by wantkitteh on Tuesday July 08 2014, @03:03PM
No problem, I may not support UKIP's positions on immigration and the EU, but I'll fight to the death their right to express them! I also reserve the right to troll the sh*t out of them at every opportunity and cave my own head in with a gold-plated copy of Das Kapital before the less open-minded of my liberal friends lynch me if UKIP ever achieve a governmental majority of membership of a ruling coalition. In the meantime, I'll be pounding my face into the desk until something fractures.
It isn't easy being Green.
(Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Tuesday July 15 2014, @11:00AM
I think I got you wrong with my reply and I came on a bit harder than reasonable.
Because well if you're Green at least you don't vote for the Tories or Labour; I say voting for anything but them is for the better, anything! I doubt UKIP will ever work with Labour (which pushed hard for most of what UKIP is fighting against like genocidal immigration and union subservience, under a fundamentally antidemocratic union no less), I also doubt UKIP will ever work with the "Conservatives" (not even if they put Boris in charge: the Tories ultimately don't "get it" about being servants of the people). Both of those parties are rotten to the core (never mind their politics) and it would seem to be suicide for UKIP. Luckily for UKIP they have powerful "allies" in Cameron (I don't feel sorry for him) and Milliband (I do feel a bit sorry for him but shouldn't because he's just as bad) and a media environment which is finally starting to asphyxiate on its own over the top propaganda and the growing backlash it fuels.
Pounding ones face into the desk is one thing but accidentally yet repeatedly headbutting oneself when walking through the door like more people will find themselves doing is quite another and sometimes wakes up even the most ardently ideological person, once in a while it even happens "live" on telly :)
If (if!) UKIP ever does achieve majority please go easy on yourself and wait a few years, maybe you'll see what they're on about, some of those much more "worse off" than you might still approve of some of it unless Switzerland is their idea of hell :)
While it of course isn't entirely identical I live in a place where something similar has already happened (but an awful lot of work remains for them, they will need decades to repair it all) and the world didn't end, instead it slowly started getting a little bit better. It would be nice if it lasted but the distance to utter ruin is far shorter and would only take an election reverting to the same old sick bastards as were in power before.
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(Score: 1) by wantkitteh on Tuesday July 15 2014, @03:43PM
Harder than reasonable? I thought that was what all conversations about politics by people with differing views always ended up being and we were just skipping the pleasantries at the beginning. Still, most gracious of you sir!
When you're faced with two rotten popular parties, the third option is usually the best idea, but last time I tried that (in the absence of a Green candidate) I ended up voting Lib-Dem and the seat was won by the Conservatives... and we know what happened next. I couldn't possibly bring myself to vote for UKIP, so I'm now considering calling Montgomery Brewster [youtube.com] and asking him to stand in my constituency next year. That's if I'm still sober after the "emergency" data interception legislation that's being rushed through parliament in 1 day flat having been announced 1 week ago gets voted in. Which it will.
Does anyone here live in a sane country and need someone to share the rent?