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London 2006, Meet London 1984

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-is-the-newspeak-for-change-the-channel dept.

Draape writes "Shoreditch TV is an experiment TV channel beaming live footage from the street into people's homes. According to the Telegraph U.K. television will broadcast from 400 surveillance cameras on the streets, into people's homes. For now they are only showing it to 22,000 homes, but next year they plan on going national with the 'show'. They fly under the flag 'fighting crime from the sofa'."

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  1. Doubleplus Arse by ElephanTS · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    London is already the most surveilled place in the world. I know because I live here. It's beginning to feel oppressive as you know there is probably someone taping you everywhere you go. Speed cameras are making driving without getting fined difficult - cost me £180 last year for very minor speed offences. Soon TPTB will be fining you for smoking or spitting on the street using this type of technology - you'll just get a computer print-out sent to your house. Maybe I read to much sci-fi as a kid but I feel like I'm in 1984 half the time anyway. Erosion of civil liberties is pernicious and creeping - at what stage to we pass the point where it's too far?

    Even when criminals are caught what happens to them? - the prisons are full (75% drug-related offences - generally just poor people trying to make a go of things) - and fining the poor never really works. The criminal justice system in this country is ineffective and flawed - many 'bad people' get away with misdemeanours because of various technicalities so what's the point of catching more people? Nothing is going to get solved.

    Q: How is the government preparing for the probable collapse of society as peak oil begins to bite?

    A: By developing 'Big Brother' technologies and surveilling everyone. Selling paranoia to everyone about their fellow men and neighbours to prevent social movements from emerging - typical 'divide and rule' tactics, time-tested and true.

    Now to turn on the news and watch the 4-minute hate . . . . ooh what a bad man, string him up, string him up! He's the reason everything's so bad now, we see it now.

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    spoonerize "magic trackpad"
  2. Re:No obvious correlation by dhakbar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "If whites are in power they can target blacks by making black drugs of choice (marihuana) illegal whilst protecting white drugs of choice (alcohol and tobacco)."

    You're retarded, aren't you?