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

Post by wallace_f » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 7:37 AM UTC

xorxornop wrote: post #222

masmullin wrote: post #201

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

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) -…

But everybody is equal!

Post by cyphunk » Tue, Nov 29, 2016, 4:57 AM UTC

datamoshr wrote: post #44

As a UK resident, this irks me beyond belief. It's a sickening invasion of human rights[1]. To echo u/rubberstamps sentiments, it's such that there's been little to no coverage of this in the media. But it's the same everywhere, introduce an encroaching bill, have uproar from those with the heads screwed on (the minority). Let it grow a little stale in the publics eye and keep reintroducing with slight alterations it…

I've always found the pro-privacy argument "well let me see your email than" to be weak. But when someone responds to this "here, no problem" this indicates exactly what the problem is: Apathy.

A lack of privacy induces apathy. This is exactly what your friend responded from and acted upon. The better argument to start with, and one that counters apathy, is: I do not value privacy because I have many things to hide but rather because I have many things I value.

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

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