while i agree with you stig ukip isnt the answer there even more right wing that the conservatives.
all the parties apart from the liberals(and even thats doubtful) want to do this in some form. as they think its a vote winner. but after seen a few polls taken the opposite is true. we already know the uk gov is spying on us citizens to bypass the anti snooping laws the u.s have and in return the u.s is doing the same for the uk. completely bypassing the needs for warrants.
that being said none of this surveillance has shown any results of note. they didnt stop the boston bombings even though they were forewarned nor did they manage to stop the latest in franc. again they already had actionable intelligence (the guys who committed the crime were actually being actively watched. they were already on no fly lists for instance so were a known threat.
as for the warrants being needed to snoop thats utter b.s. as snowden showed us.
give governments power and sooner or later they abuse it and this kind of power is ripe for abuse.
1 other thing i would like to add is whats the point of banning these few apps? the people claim they need to snoop on would just move to a less obvious, more niche app which they likely havent even heard of. so in reality its a pointless exercise with no real intelligence benefit other than invading joe publics privacy to see if they are swallowing what there being fed which is a massive corporate lie.
call my a cynical but ca(moron) really doesn't like the INTERNET. first he demands the isp's to block sites he and his ilk deem unsuitable. they go for the easy targets first torrents then porn, now instant messaging. next will be vpns and proxys, after that its pretty much open season to block so called radical news outlets like live leak who don't follow the corporate line.
im pretty sure this is deeper than what we are seeing here and the start of something we should all be outraged at. but as long as he claims to be protecting our children most will allow these infringements to go unchecked until its to late and we end up in a police state where your guilty even when you are innocent.
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