David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need warrantless electronic surveillance
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#3Wat.
blinks Wat.
This must be stupidest thing I've ever read in my entire life. It's like saying that we should all affix a gun to our hand because it works so well in FPS.
Or that hiding in a corner makes you recover from cancer. I don't care if he didn't say it really.
I blame either him for saying or the journalist for writing so illogical.
Re: David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need warrantless electronic surveillance
#4Wat. Wat. blinks Wat. This must be stupidest thing I've ever read in my entire life. It's like saying that we should all affix a gun to our hand because it works so well in FPS. Or that hiding in a corner makes you recover from cancer. I don't care if he didn't say it really. I blame either him for saying or the journalist for writing so illogical.
"In the most serious crimes [such as] child abduction communications data... is absolutely vital. I love watching, as I probably should stop telling people, crime dramas on the television. There's hardly a crime drama where a crime is solved without using the data of a mobile communications device."
Re: David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need warrantless electronic surveillance
#5From the boingboing article - "David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need mass warrantless electronic surveillance"
Re: David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need warrantless electronic surveillance
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#7From the BBC article referenced by boingboing - "He said TV crime dramas illustrated the value of monitoring mobile data." From the boingboing article - "David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need mass warrantless electronic surveillance"
Crime dramas illustrate many things, not all of them related to reality.
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#8I cannot fathom how an entire nation of people can allow themselves to be duped so well, by so few. The entire 'keeping people safe' position is a button that gets pushed and pushed - do the English really fear for their lives so much that they are willing to give up so much freedom, and to allow a powerful elite to rule them? The answer, centuries old: YES.
It is my belief that the English zeitgeist is so riddled with guilt over what IT did to its colonies and foreign possessions, that it is currently in the death throws of a society crippled by its own crimes against humanity. This notion of the elite nature of the British Empire serves no purpose other than to polarize the people of that tiny nation against all others .. and this is terribly shocking.
The British people will never be truly safe for as long as they continue to deny their own empires criminal behaviour. What England did to Ireland; what it did to its colonies; what it continues to do in foreign lands, daily - this is the true source of danger for the English people. No amount of pontificating/Mind Control being force-fed on the British public will ever address the dire straits in which England has forcefully left millions of people, not subjects of their empire but nevertheless victims, all over the world.
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#9While I strongly oppose any warrant-less surveillance bills. I can agree with the statement. Nothing makes me a sympathise with the police more than crime dramas. So much to the point where I feel some American TV procedurals are almost propagandist and a lot of people assume the police have more rights than they do because of TV. But this is reality and things aren't as black and white as that.
Re: David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need warrantless electronic surveillance
#10From the BBC article referenced by boingboing - "He said TV crime dramas illustrated the value of monitoring mobile data." From the boingboing article - "David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need mass warrantless electronic surveillance"
I am not sure that makes it any better. Crime dramas illustrate many things, not all of them related to reality.