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Manchester Attack Could Lead To Internet Crackdown (independent.co.uk)

New submitter boundary writes: The UK government looks to be about to put the most egregious parts of the Investigative Powers Act into force "soon after the election" (which is in a couple of weeks) in the wake of the recent bombing in Manchester. "Technical Capability Orders" require tech companies to break their own security. I wonder who'll comply? The Independent reports: "Government will ask parliament to allow the use of those powers if Theresa May is re-elected, senior ministers told The Sun. 'We will do this as soon as we can after the election, as long as we get back in,' The Sun said it was told by a government minister. 'The level of threat clearly proves there is no more time to waste now. The social media companies have been laughing in our faces for too long.'"

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  1. The Mosque by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Mosque is the centerpiece of the Islamic culture

    The followers get instructions from their preachers during and after their prayer inside the Mosque

    In fact, the UK government already knew of the 350 or so Islamic Terrorists returning from ME but the government never apprehend them

    Instead, the UK government let them running loose, to continue preaching their anti-Western, anti-Christian diatribe inside and around their Mosques

    While it is the moslems who carried out the massacres it is the Western government giving them a free hand to do whatever they want

    The word I am required to enter is 'crying' and yes, knowing an innocent 8 year old girl perished in the mindless massacre, I am crying!

    1. Re: The Mosque by Charlotte · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      You're implying that there is something innately wrong with terrorism.

      I believe that terrorism/guerrilla/freedom fighting is warranted in some circumstances. Though not for purely religious reasons. There has to be a political component that cannot be addressed peacefully -- and the Troubles fit that description.

  2. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    After this security failure, those in power who are held responsible will now use this event as an excuse for a power grab.
    Terror events, real or synthetic, are used for gaining new power, at the expense of your freedom.
    As the kor-an is pretty clear on the use of political violence, terror should come as no surprise. If new fascist laws makes a region unlivable new ideas can take root, including the ideas of revolutionaries. This is pretty basic and old stuff.
    The purest koranic region is saudi arabia, not much room for other religions here, and this is what the IS wants to create everywhere. The vast majority of islamist favor sharia laws, and whether moderate or not.

    Islam is as much a political idea as a religious one, if not more so. Their stated goal is and have always been conquest. The average Yusef-schmoe may not know this, or admit to this, but their so called "scholars" and IS knows this.
    Islamists should be extended the same courtesy as non-islamic religions get in saudi arabia.
    Wake up and smell the gahwa.

  3. Re:In other news... by Charlotte · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Nah we just burn witches, torture heretics to death, murder gays, tell people not to use condoms (so they have no control over their lives and are easily manipulated), erect schools with the express purpose of brainwashing children (Jezuits: "give me a child until 7 and I will give you the man"). Christians commit terrorist attacks against Children (Oklahoma daycare bombing). All of these are identical to what ISIS is doing.

    Fucking hang yourself tool.

    It would appear that you are the tool. You're the one repeating nonsense that's been specifically drafted for your minute brain.