I read the news today oh boy! Page 51
!!!! F**king f**k f**k.
What that means is that an unelected official would have the power to do anything without Parliamentary oversight or debate
"That's Labour!"
Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2009, 10:44 PM GMT!!!! F**king f**k f**k.
I was wondering when this story would hit the BCG and how Aaron would react.
With livid outrage. But sadly without any surprise.
I was foolish enough to believe this would of been another one of their "un enforcable" laws, but with big business driving this through. We're going to be paying more tax(don't kid yourself it'll go up) to have our internet usage spied on.
Perhaps they should employ this tactic to the knife or gun crime or maybe paedophiles and rapists? no? of course not because it's easier to arrest and fine normal working people, and tick their boxes drive those statistics up whilst the people who commit crime basically run amok.
Sadly, a lot of it is workable. From what I've seen, I fear that the Conservatives are/will be going along with some of it, under the impression that it won't be possible. But whoever supports it in Parliament, it should not be allowed to happen. It's an extremely slippery slope.
slippery slope? it's a f**king free fall.
Absolutely disgraceful.
I read that the average American commits 3 felonies per day because of all the laws that they keep enacting. It's probably the same over there. Heaven help us when they decide that it makes fiscal sense to start charging us all for our "offences."
Quote: Gavin @ November 20 2009, 12:42 AM GMTslippery slope? it's a f**king free fall.
Absolutely disgraceful.
Oh it'll be even worse once this stuff actually gets into law. It'll be "P2P traffic is diminishing, but it's moving to upload sites". So then they're tracking HTTP traffic. Then they say it moves to FTP networks, then usenet, and then e-mail. (Not that half of this isn't happening already, but to different extents and with closer to byte-by-byte analysis than just generic logging.)
Quote: sootyj @ November 19 2009, 5:46 PM GMTThe Sun's front page was some supermodel said something about not eating making you thin or something.
Aha! But what about those Etheopians you see with huge bellies? Eh, smarty pants!
I won't comment on this thing Gav posted or I'll be writing pages and getting very angry. All I will ask:
Does anyone know if Guy Fawkes has any surviving relatives?
I'd say that the Dark Lord is about on par with him in terms of honesty, decency and morals.
bigfella had a lucky escape - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8369674.stm *shudder*
Wooooooh the Labor party is eeeeeeeeeeeevil. This thing is disgusting.
Quote: Leevil @ November 20 2009, 1:16 PM GMTbigfella had a lucky escape - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8369674.stm *shudder*
Fight Club?
Quote: Curt @ November 20 2009, 1:23 PM GMTWooooooh the Labor party is eeeeeeeeeeeevil. This thing is disgusting.
True. 
Well if people stopped irresponsibly ripping off other peoples IP and hard work, not to mentioned funds invested by prodcos etc then these laws would be unneccasary. There's no government task force on bumming ostriches because people generally don't do it. When the BBC's revenue is slashed by this kind of theft, eventually it will end up with reduced production.
If the law seems draconian and harsh it's because it's such a hard area to enforce.