Re:Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated after...
by MagnumOpus on Monday June 05, 2017 @03:53AM
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> Just about everyone who has become Home Secretary in my adult life has moved in that direction
The Home Sec position is a revolving seat used as a political parking lot, so the only people who stayed more than a year and had time to move in any direction in this century were T. May and Blunkett. And the latter started in a position where he regarded civil liberties as "airy fair" and expressed the aim to make the previous law&order hard liner "seem liberal".
It seems to me that the causation is the other way around - the only people really really craving that sort of position with immense secret powers but little public spotlight are those who are intrinsically authoritarian and power hungry.
The Home Sec position is a revolving seat used as a political parking lot, so the only people who stayed more than a year and had time to move in any direction in this century were T. May and Blunkett. And the latter started in a position where he regarded civil liberties as "airy fair" and expressed the aim to make the previous law&order hard liner "seem liberal".
It seems to me that the causation is the other way around - the only people really really craving that sort of position with immense secret powers but little public spotlight are those who are intrinsically authoritarian and power hungry.