Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated after London terror attack

Re:Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated after... by cirrus-clouds on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:27AM (#14480834)

A lot of people in the UK don't know what surveillance powers the government has enacted into law. Nor do they know the plans the government has in their 2017 manifesto.

I created a campaigning site to dissuade people from voting for the Conservatives in the election - I know that will be frowned up on here, but I wrote an entire section on the site to explain (in laypersons terms) what surveillance powers have been legislated and proposed by the Conservatives:

https://www.dontvoteconservativeuk.com/#security

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Re:Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated after... by deepGem on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:41AM (#14480882)

It does look like either the Labour or the Tories favour surveillance heavily. It makes me wonder, do the leaders of these parties actually believe that such surveillance can ensure security ? Or, is it that most of the common people see surveillance as a good security measure and the political parties are just appeasing these people. I can't help but extrapolate this situation to the scenario depicted in "V for Vendetta".

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Re:Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated after... by thedlade on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:50AM (#14480920)

The public aren't asking for any of this. They only use these cases as a sort of opportunity window to introduce laws that ban various types of porn

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Re:Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated after... by zigzigzag on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:12AM (#14481049)

There is also the opposite problem. The public aren't asking for it not to be done either. Internet surveillance isn't a hot button political topic either way. However, terrorism is. Hence the problem.

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