Monday, April 2, 2012

Retweet the Government

The government is proposing to bring forward legislation that will require ISPs to hold all electronic correspondence sent by all people (Tweets, E-Mails, Facebook posts, etc.) for two years.  The proposal seems to be that the detail would only be made available under a court order, but who the communications are between, will be available to the state security services, at all times.

Of course this is draconian and many might say that the terrorists can consider themselves as winners, when we have nothing, such as free speech and privacy, left to defend.

Maybe though, we should get this programme kicked-off now.

Maybe we should voluntarily include government departments and ministers on all of the tweets that we send - every single one of them to as many government would-be snoopers as we have the addresses of. 

Maybe we shouldn't leave out those local government bodies either.  This might save them having to spy on us with all those CCTV cameras.

The good thing about this re-defined Big Society, is that we all get to contribute!

Or maybe, we could just say NO!  While we still can?

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