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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Chemical snorfare said:
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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It's still a little confusing. Initially Gove and Bojo were due to team up and create a nigh unstoppable juggernaut that would've swept all before them, but in the wake of the chaotic Brexit vote and Cameron resigning... well.

BoJo had largely used the Brexit vote as a backdoor leadership bid, to prove he had the chops to stand up for Blighty against Brussels while not being so signed up to the actual leave project. This didn't really matter to anyone at the core because the vote to leave wasn't expected to win, but it would've tranformed Boris from a bit of a buffoon to a potentially devastating faction leader post settlement of the question of Brexit, come what may.

Gove was originally to be Boris main party heavyman (he's been a whip before) and would probably have been Chancellor of the Exchequer when (because really, it's a when by the time it gets to the party faithful these days) Boris won. So what happened?

Boris appeared to be wobbling just 72 hours after the vote on what Leave actually meant and when Gove went to get assurances, namely that Boris wouldn't water down Brexit to us being in the EEA or other "Norway" style models... he didn't give anything.

So Gove decided that if Boris wasn't going to do things properly... he'd do it himself.

Or did he?

Despite being popular with the public the membership's always been a bit more mixed, with Gove regularly rising and falling among the membership polling done by Conservative Home.

By doing this, he'd take out both himself and Boris from the equation, leaving the very popular Andrea Leadsom (who's still popular among the membership now) to take the field as a true Brexiteer.

Of course, Leadsom herself gaffed quite badly as the only person she now stood against was May and she said those things she did about motherhood, and then had to withdraw.

This actually seemed like the best option at the time as it avoided a Membership/Parliamentary Party split as was happening in Labour.

Oh how times change.

As much as the Tory Party is currently falling over itself to support May... she's no longer in control of the party at all.

Damian Greene is now the conduit between the 1922 executive and May and the fact that pretty much no cabinet posts have changed in the reshuffle shows that she's now so weak she can't risk angering any of her big beasts unless they call for a snap leadership election.

The fact she's brought back Gove (albeit in Environment where in theory he can't do much) also shows a critical weakness in her position that she's had to reach out to a "sworn enemy" that regularly clashed with her at cabinet meetings and called her out on her bullshit a lot says something.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
The fact she's brought back Gove (albeit in Environment where in theory he can't do much) also shows a critical weakness in her position that she's had to reach out to a "sworn enemy" that regularly clashed with her at cabinet meetings and called her out on her bullshit a lot says something.
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Lol, ok I'd been racking my brains to remember where I'd read a few years ago that "conservative insiders don't rate May's intelligence much".

It might have been Gove when he was writing for the Times.

Ok I can see why both of them running would have sunk both of them.
I just cant fathom why Boris stepped aside.
Maybe the admission he wanted to water down Brexit came in an email where he'd said something indecorous, but I still think there was something personal said.

Anyhow it looks like Davis and Johnson are going at each other, which should be fun.
They are basically the last of the Top Tories I've got any time for (not that my lot are any better).
 
Chemical snorfare said:
Lol, ok I'd been racking my brains to remember where I'd read a few years ago that "conservative insiders don't rate May's intelligence much".

It might have been Gove when he was writing for the Times.

Ok I can see why both of them running would have sunk both of them.
I just cant fathom why Boris stepped aside.
Maybe the admission he wanted to water down Brexit came in an email where he'd said something indecorous, but I still think there was something personal said.

Anyhow it looks like Davis and Johnson are going at each other, which should be fun.
They are basically the last of the Top Tories I've got any time for (not that my lot are any better).
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May's basically a granite boulder, able to endure the weather but can still be blown by a tsunami as we saw with the Maybot wheeled out by Timothy and Hall during the campaign.

I suspect Davis and BoJo might come to a compromise eventually.
 
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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I don't know British politics too well but between this election and the Brexit vote it seems like the Tories have a serious problem of calling elections to prove a point and then being proven dead wrong.
 
Fork Cartel said:
tbh may should just seppuku, it's the only real hope to rescue the tories' honor at this late stage
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The traditional British invitation to suicide if I remember rightly was coming home to find a bottle of whiskey and a loaded revolver on your bedside table IIRC.

I'm not entirely certain what the political equivalent of that is.
 
Sable said:
The traditional British invitation to suicide if I remember rightly was coming home to find a bottle of whiskey and a loaded revolver on your bedside table IIRC.

I'm not entirely certain what the political equivalent of that is.
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The UK political equivalent is "Falling on your own sword" where while something might not be your own fault you still take full responsibility.

To be Honest, the Tories are far more ruthless when it comes to leaders that have underperformed frequently asking them to "resign" when in reality there's been a coup by either the cabinet themselves as happened in Thatcher's case in 1990 or encouraged to retire by the party as in Macmillan's case back in the sixites.

The weird issue is that May... hasn't technically under performed. She scored a healthy 43% of the votes cast which in normal circumstances would see her in a three figured majority, indeed on a similar vote performance in 1997 Blair enjoyed a majority of a staggering 179 seats.

The issue is that she scored votes in places that were completely irrelevant, mostly Labour safe seats, while in the marginals high turnout of the young and those already scared by May's Dementia Tax manifesto saw them flip Labour, not necessarily on the promise of "lots of free shit!" but to warn about how god awfully the manifesto had gone down.

So we're in a very very odd spot.
 
Meh, we all knew the "Wild West" period of the Internet wouldn't last forever.

Frankly it only lasted this long because the people in power were old and damn ignorant of its potential.

With Hillary's loss being blame on "the Internet" it's natural to expect those who wield power will want to get a grip and start controlling it. Hell with so many super-PACs created to "direct and inform" I'm amazed we haven't seen some repressive shit from Congress.

Won't be long now until this kind of repression is fairly common worldwide.

Now I know some will say the Internet can't be controlled because it's evolving too fast but remember the physical hardware used to access it can be. Lock down the ISPs and you lock down the web.

ISPs are just companies, they will obey the law of the land.
 
Sweet and Savoury said:
Meh, we all knew the "Wild West" period of the Internet wouldn't last forever.

Frankly it only lasted this long because the people in power were old and damn ignorant of its potential.

With Hillary's loss being blame on "the Internet" it's natural to expect those who wield power will want to get a grip and start controlling it. Hell with so many super-PACs created to "direct and inform" I'm amazed we haven't seen some repressive shit from Congress.

Won't be long now until this kind of repression is fairly common worldwide.

Now I know some will say the Internet can't be controlled because it's evolving too fast but remember the physical hardware used to access it can be. Lock down the ISPs and you lock down the web.

ISPs are just companies, they will obey the law of the land.
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I think the "they're old and don't understand" argument is more of a cliche than anything. I mean, governments quickly latched onto the value of cryptography after WWII. It didn't matter how old the politicians were, they still figured it out.

No, there are huge (and I would say intractable) roadblocks to fucking with the internet. Like strong cryptography, for one. Or the multitude of jurisdictions from which to work.

This is why I argue that copyright laws* are practically unenforceable nowadays. As long as people have strong encryption, fast computers and fast internet, you can't force them into doing anything digitally.

They would need to outlaw at least one of those three things to control the internet.

* For your internet piracy things, anyway.
 
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Jeeze what exactly are you people doing with your internet to be this upset about a little governmental oversight?
 
If you read the details of this platform the Tories are pushing they want to do exactly that.

Any unbreakable cryptography is illegal: any program that circumvents government snooping is also illegal.

All ISPs must, by this new law, must keep detailed records on everyone's internet history.

Only sactioned web pages may be accessed through British IP providers, anything not on the approved list and the ISP cannot pass along the data packets without legal consequences.

They want to go full China mode here.

The biggest road block I see is the business aspect cause let's face it your average Brit-bong will just roll over and ask for another cock-blast to the face.

But business who can't secure thier data...they're going to flee Britain in droves. No one will want to do business with a company who is vulnerable to hacking your personal data.

Would you use a credit provider who can't secure your purchase records?
Would you bank with a company who can't promise to keep your accounts locked up safe?


I really don't believe this shit will fly but the very fact they can find support to trot out shit like this is what scares me.

Between the nutcase lefties in America pushing full PC culture with the blessing of the media and now UK nanny state using terrorism to push Internet censuring...it's a scary time.
 
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