No, my feelings remain completely unchanged. I'm still very much against it. I'm not convinced terrorists are the ultimate, primary target of this surveillance, honestly.

Even if it were, we know this type of mass surveillance has been in use for years now and it seems utterly ineffectual in preventing the kind of incidents they are supposedely meant to prevent.

Also, seeing the exploitative opportunism in some politicans and the media since the Paris attacks in spouting their thinly veiled fascism and demagoguery really pisses me off. It just makes me that much more resistant to any attempts to curtail our civil liberties.

The whole point of terrorism is to change the country it is inflicted upon through fear tactics. This is exactly what is happening by spying on people, censoring websites and introducing police-state like controls on our freedoms.

So you could say that by allowing ourselves to be led down this path we are in essence 'letting the terrorists win'.

Fuck that shit.