Suddenly we’re told there’s a brand new bill that looks like it was written by the National Security Agency that has to be passed in the same manner that a surveillance bill in the United States was passed in 2007, and it has to happen now. And we don’t have time to debate it, despite the fact that this was not a priority, this was not an issue that needed to be discussed at all, for an entire year. It defies belief.
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We have to pass the bill before we know what’s in it, except that the NSA knows what’s in everything.
a bill a day keeps the public sector at play
Is it me, or are people a little nervous about commenting on this because, of course, it’s all true?
I think people just expect this shit, so what to say? It is of course the reaction ‘they’ are perfect happy with.
This just keeps getting better and better. Now we know that GCHQ has the ability to “seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, ‘amplify’ sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be ‘extremist’.” We all assumed that they are monitoring Samizdata; what else are they doing here?
Laird,
But what accounts for the amazing amount of drivel and vitriol in a typical Youtube comments section? It would be nice to think it was government spambots, rather than a skewed sample of humanity.
Mr Ed,
I always assumed that the name “YouTube” was derived from the U-bend familiar to plumbers, and was intended to convey a similarity of purpose. The U-bend is designed as a trap for the containment of sewer gases. The YouTube comments section, at least, appears to have an identical function.
The Weltmeisters have finally learned the lessons of Enigma.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10968316/Germanys-plan-to-take-on-NSA-Block-eavesdroppers-with-classical-music-and-use-typewriters.html
More details on GCHQ’s perfidy.
I smell big bucks in the homing-pigeons industry.