Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”

Re:Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever pa... by jakobdabo on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:12PM (#12979847)

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

- Edward Snowden

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Re:Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever pa... by masmullin on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:29PM (#12981831)

That argument isn't good enough, unfortunately. As many people will respond with "well, yeah, I don't have anything important to say."

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Re:Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever pa... by xorxornop on Thursday November 17, 2016 @05:29PM (#12982344)

The fact that they can't even think that they might want to be able to say "I value my human rights" at some point is severely worrying. Bunch of philosophical zombies.

If they're anything other than white skinned, blue eyed, blonde haired, heterosexual, male, centrist-politically leaning (or one of the other few extremely simplistic predefined options - analogy: the block-shapes-through-the-board children's game) - history called. It's got some advice to give - but, of course, barely anyone is listening. (except the government. No, they're listening plenty... just not to history - they're too busy listening to the sound of hubris!)

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Re:Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever pa... by wallace_f on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @02:37AM (#13020865)

But everybody is equal!

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