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Re:Theresa May to create new internet controlled and regulat... by colanderman on Saturday May 20, 2017 @03:17PM (#14383854)
The UK has always felt it proper to invade individuals' privacy. TV detector vans date from 1952: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van and they've recently entered the digital age: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/bbc-to-deploy-det...

This type of casual invasion of privacy at least (nominally) requires a warrant in the US.

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Re:Theresa May to create new internet controlled and regulat... by lebrad on Saturday May 20, 2017 @05:42PM (#14384493)
I'm constantly amazed that so many British people believe the fiction that BBC detector vans are able to detect license violations.
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Re:Theresa May to create new internet controlled and regulat... by colanderman on Saturday May 20, 2017 @07:23PM (#14384909)
I'm not British, and even if they're fake (why do you believe that?), they've still been purporting to invade privacy for over half a century.
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