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New Zealand Parliament Votes To Extend Spying Powers

Posted by Unknown on from the not-used-for-spying-pinky-swear dept.

pinkstuff writes "Amid protests and much opposition New Zealand parliament has just passed a bill which allows the The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) greater spying powers."

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  1. Public opinion doesn't matter by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For a long time, governments of modern democracies have been rather afraid of public opinion and the press, and have avoided doing things that would result in protests and opposition.

    Then at some point they realized they could bribe the press, and that the public's opinion doesn't really matter, nor does it amount to much or lead to much violence in a society of over-fed TV addicts. Today's protesters are all bark and no bite, and the powers-that-be know it full well. So they do whatever the fuck they want without even trying to be discreet about it.

    That's where we're at right now. Welcome to a new form of tyranny, in which dictators are "democrats" who resort on soothing words and the complicity of mass-media to pussify the populace and keep it in check. Violence and outright dictatorship is so yesteryear...

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  2. It makes you wonder? by kurt555gs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who does all this spying serve? Really. Who?

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