UK PM doubles down on Internet Repression - Theresa May wants to read everything you say online

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Dispite getting creamed in her snap election, U.K. PM Theresa May still plans on going ahead with her party's Internet Regulations Act which goes even further then last years regulations.

Not content with simply reading your ISPs logs on your browsing behaviour, which was made legal and required by British ISPs last year, May now plans on enacting a deep packet inspection very similar to what the Chinese Government current uses. Also on the chopping block; outlawing any encryption methods that a government agency can't break, VPNs and any "tools or programs" that would deflect, block or in anyway interfere with the ability of a government agency's ability to exam internet traffic or data.

This includes open source sites such as Git-hub and Git-lab...

"We plan on becoming the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the Internet".
Direct Quote from May

This bitch be crazy!


Here's the full story;

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...downing-street-speech-manifesto-a7783186.html

I can't believe that even the bloody Limey's would be as crazy to outlaw secure encryption and VPNs...how would business survive in such a world? Imagine banking without a secure encrypt...fucking nuts.
 
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I honestly hope this shit flys.

Can you imagine outlawing secure encryption?

Kiss your banking/financial sector good-bye.

Would you trust your life savings to a company who can't guarantee its security?
 
>Already have one of the biggest and strictest surveillance states in the world
>Still unable to detect and/or detain terrorists before they murder people

More surveillance on ordinary citizens isn't going to help. Maybe you should be keeping a closer eye on self-professed Islamists and jihadists, there are literally thousands of them walking around the UK.
 
Meh I don't think this is aimed at normies or terrorists honestly.

Hill-dawg's loss has shined a spotlight on the Internet, those in power were shocked too see it decide the US election and then Brexit, now they're scrambling to get a grasp on it so they can twist it like the traditional media.

Good luck fuckheads, the more they try to squeeze the more will move beyond thier grip. They really don't have a clue about how the Internet really works.
 
Sweet and Savoury said:
I honestly hope this shit flys.

Can you imagine outlawing secure encryption?

Kiss your banking/financial sector good-bye.

Would you trust your life savings to a company who can't guarantee its security?
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The Government is gonna do all that so that they can finally keep track of each penny you make
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AnOminous said:
Why did this dumb cunt even call a snap election anyway? This has to be one of the dumbest decision any PM in recent history ever made.
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It can be a smart thing to do if the mood of the electorate is in your favour and you want to forestall leadership challenges. It can also be a strategy for increasing your majority if you're having trouble getting stuff through Parliament. Doing at it at short notice reduces the chances of the Opposition putting together a coherent strategy in the time available.

She clearly misread the political climate in a major way.
 
Cosmos said:
>Already have one of the biggest and strictest surveillance states in the world
>Still unable to detect and/or detain terrorists before they murder people

More surveillance on ordinary citizens isn't going to help. Maybe you should be keeping a closer eye on self-professed Islamists and jihadists, there are literally thousands of them walking around the UK.
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As recent terrorist attacks have shown, it isn't the lack of a surveillance state that has kept these stupid fucks from stopping attacks.

Every single attacker was already on a list of terrorists!

What the motherfucking fuck!
 
AnOminous said:
As recent terrorist attacks have shown, it isn't the lack of a surveillance state that has kept these stupid fucks from stopping attacks.

Every single attacker was already on a list of terrorists!

What the motherfucking fuck!
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Yeah but they'll be able to track your piddling drug purchases, what porn you watch and how many movies you torrent. Y'know, the important stuff.
 
Rio said:
Huh, it's almost as if Theresa May makes a shitty prime minister. Who'd have thought?
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No one ever doubted Theresa May was and is a shitty prime minister. She is out of her fucking mind.

The problem is that Corbyn has literally given the EU every fucking bit of leverage they could've possibly hoped for with Brexit by 'pre-agreeing' to a lot of the terms they're setting before the negotiation even takes place and made it clear that he will do anything to make a deal to stay in the single market - which of course means the EU is going to make that monumentally difficult.

Meanwhile on the other hand, Theresa May is such a fucking sociopath (see OP for an example) people believe her when she says she'd prefer no deal over a bad deal. Whether or not that is a lie doesn't matter, people believe it - and it will give her an edge when negotiations begin.

Believe it or not the EU needs a Brexit deal as much or more than Britain. Britain stands to go into soul-crushing debt it's true, but that's nothing compared to EU facing the risk of collapse if it can't balance its budget (or having to hassle poorer countries in the EU to pay more, making them consider leaving as well).
 
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I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED.

Ok, so, first thing's first as much as May is still going to go ahead with trying to get this law through Parliament... there's really no garuntee it'll make it. She doesn't actually even have an effective majority in Parliament when you factor out Sin Feinn never taking their seats (due to needing to swear an oath to HRH) she falls short by one MP so if Labour and the others gang up this law will go down in flames.

There's really no telling what the DUP will do in a confidence and supply government and even then that only gives her an effective governing majority of 15 meaning once again a small rebellion by more civil rights minded Tories will sink this when its hit by Labour and the others also voting against it.

May also has the House of Lords to contend with, who are far more hawkish about civil rights and once famously stayed until 3am to battle 40 days detention without charge. They ordered the Men in Tights to ship in hot water bottles and blankets to keep them going. At around midnight one Lord was on the BBC, he said something along the lines of. "They keep sending this law up thinking we're a bunch of old codgers who'll go to sleep eventually. But we've got blankets, hot water bottles, cups of tea and I hear that they do an excellent breakfast here."

So, what of the banning of end to end encryption? Well this will mostly likely be written into the law to apply to messenger services or other methods of communications, not things like financial transactions. Indeed, when this law should come down to the nitty gritty details there will be a shocking number of exceptions or omissions in it like nearly every single other version of net related law we've ever passed.
 
Sooo... the answer to terrorist attacks against the population done by radical fundamentalist muslims who've been on various watchlists and who have been reported by a lot of people beforehand without any of these awesome surveillance systems ever producing anything usefull is to increase the surveillance to spread out their thin resources on even more people, a crushing majority of which hasn't even done anything to warrant this and who have been - in fact - the target of said attacks?

FFS, let's just hope this shit gets taken behind the garden shed and beaten to death with a shovel.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
Sooo... the answer to terrorist attacks against the population done by radical fundamentalist muslims who've been on various watchlists and who have been reported by a lot of people beforehand without any of these awesome surveillance systems ever producing anything usefull is to increase the surveillance to spread out their thin resources on even more people, a crushing majority of which hasn't even done anything to warrant this and who have been - in fact - the target of said attacks?

FFS, let's just hope this shit gets taken behind the garden shed and beaten to death with a shovel.
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Newspapers are calling for her to go.

The party membership is calling for her to go.

The party inside Parliament is calling for her to go.

Ministers are calling for her to go, or will refuse to serve when asked.

Basically we'll see what happens after they all have some soul searching over the summer, or even this weekend.

The main thing that would probably be passed and should be is that of needing voter I.D when you go vote, after that we'll probably see her booted out and some sort of "unity" front appear with Bojo, Gove, Hammond and Davis.
 
I'd be mad about this, but all this means that a bunch of government spooks will have to read through a ton of porn searches.

If they're lucky, they might even find something related to terrorism or something.
 
AnOminous said:
Why did this dumb cunt even call a snap election anyway? This has to be one of the dumbest decision any PM in recent history ever made.

I love how she's now groveling and apologizing to all the Tory PMs whose jobs she lost with this dumbass idea.
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It wouldn't have been dumb if she literally shut her stupid fucking mouth and did nothing. Labour would have been cremated. Instead she brought out a manifesto that said: 'Oh, we're killing off the tech industry in our country, going to harvest all your emails, ban Linux. We're also restoring the Ivory trade and making rich people tear foxes apart on horses with dogs. VOTE CONSERVATIVE, WE'RE MORE RET.ARDED THAN A LITERAL COMMUNIST'
 
>Our government's Orwellian policy has identified multiple terrorists before they attacked
>Attacks go through and kill many Britons
>Obviously the solution is more internet surveillance

This is more blatant than the fucking Patriot act. Enjoy forcing your tech industry to seppuku, Britbongs. Banning Linux is more likely to drive the financial firms to Frankfurt than anything you can put in the Brexit deal.
 
Doesn't she want all servers in the UK to use proprietary software instead of Unix variants since they're open source? :story:

Good luck with that. Pretty sure every IT Admin will protest over that shit, among other things. Not to mention how much it would cost for every Unix server to license MS or Apple server software.

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Here's my source. I'm not even sure if this is part of the manifesto. I can't seem to find a source for the list in the article. Scanning the Manifesto I can't seem to find direct quotes.
 
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A ton of her policies are now being heavily watered down or shelved completely in order to gain cabinet support as the manifesto really did launch with next to nobody looking it over that wast't May or her two asshole aides.

Fox hunting's gone.

Grammar schools look likely to go.

Most of the pensions stuff is being either ditched or watered down significantly.

Which means this law is likely to take a few knocks as well.

On the flipside, Micheal Gove is now back in the cabinet, which is awesome.

Gove is one of the few truly "great reformers" in the Tory party, where he will quite cheerfully take on entrenched groups and win. He was winning his education reforms until Cameron unwisely listened to the teaching unions instead of the people on the doorstop who adored Gove and his policies taking on the looney teaching unions.

He also went hammer and tongues at the law lords which they hated because he was challenging their shittier practises also.

Now he's back and in charge of the Environment Ministry, meaning a lot of more idiotic green policies will hopefully be shelved and we'll see rockets put under schemes that look like they'll work, like the Tidal Lagoon Project because why the fuck isn't a country with nearly 12,500 miles of coastline using it for power generation?
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
Gove is one of the few truly "great reformers" in the Tory party, where he will quite cheerfully take on entrenched groups and win. He was winning his education reforms until Cameron unwisely listened to the teaching unions instead of the people on the doorstop who adored Gove and his policies taking on the looney teaching unions.
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You've watched the Torys a lot closer than I have, and I've been meaning to ask...

WTF did Gove have on Johnson?
 
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