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UK Gov't May Track All Facebook Traffic

Posted by timothy on from the posted-before-curfew dept.

Jack Spine writes "The UK government, which is becoming increasingly Orwellian, has said that it is considering snooping on all social networking traffic including Facebook, MySpace, and bebo. This supposedly anti-terrorist measure may be proposed as part of the Intercept Modernisation Programme according to minister Vernon Coaker, and is exactly the sort of deep packet inspection web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee warned about last week. The measure would get around the inconvenience for the government of not being able to snoop on all UK web traffic."

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  1. Track my giant, wagging, blue penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Track my giant, wagging, blue penis you British cocksuckers.

    -That Blue Creep from that Shitty Movie

  2. Hey, it's another one of these! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's one of these, you ask? An AC post that mentions NIGGERS of course! Post your nigger jokes here!

    Q: Why do niggers keep chickens in their back yards? A: To teach their kids how to walk!

    Watch the easily offended start frothing at the mouth. Really, I think taking racial differences so damned seriously is part of the problem, not the solution. So make a joke. Laugh. Realize we're not so different after all and use humor to deal with our differences because it sure is better than using conflict to deal with our differences. And then get pissed off anyway and mod me down, you know you wanna :).

  3. Re:Who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "As a UK Citizen, yes I am, and yes I do write the letters to the MPs to complain"

    Made a big difference have you?