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UK Proposing Real-Time Monitoring of All Communications

Posted by Unknown on from the good-day-to-bury-bad-news dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In response to a plans to introduce real time monitoring of all UK Internet communications, a petition has been set up in opposition." Previously covered here, El Reg chimes in with a bit of conspiracy theorizing and further analysis: "It would appear that the story is being managed: the government is looking to make sure that CCDP is an old news story well ahead of the Queen's Speech to Parliament on 9 May. Sundays — especially Sunday April the 1st — are good days to have potentially unpopular news reach the population at large."

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  1. Brilliant! by defnoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    An e-petition! Brilliant! Since their inception a few years ago they have revolutionised democracy!

    1. Re:Brilliant! by MadKeithV · · Score: 5, Funny

      They allow the government to precisely target which sections of the population to ignore.

      You mean "all of them except the big contributors to my slush fund"?

    2. Re:Brilliant! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "And what are you going to do about it? Vote Labour? Hahahahahaha" - AC predicts the response from the Conservative leadership.

    3. Re:Brilliant! by Inda · · Score: 3, Funny

      I said something similar to my MP yesterday whilst using writetothem.com. It too forces you to give up your email address.

      "I sincerely hope I can trust you with my email address", my letter started.

      Justin Tomlinson (MP) is actually one of the good ones, even for a Tory. He turns up for meetings, doesn't claim for first class travel, always votes.

      Wait, I'm praising an MP for doing his job. Ignore me, I must be ill.

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  2. Re:Yeah right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Easy, they just ban the encryption altogether. You have nothing to hide right? Easy cheap solutions, remember? Make the sheep pay for their own surveillance/persecution is the best way, it does not cost anything! They are doing it to themselves, muhahahaha!

  3. Hitler would proud by MrKaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    See the guys with the British accents *are* the bad guys.

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  4. Re:Orwillian? by beowulfcluster · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am gonna right a new book called 2084

    Please extend my sympathies to your future editor.