UK government surveillance law

[Mori Chu]

Not US political news, but I still found it interesting. Britain is trying to pass a sweeping new online surveillance law that allows the government to track and store every web site visited by every citizen at all times and save it in a data center for up to one year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-34715872

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/05/sev ... nce-rules/

Personally I find this stuff terrifying and an awful violation of privacy. I also hate the PATRIOT Act and similar efforts in the US.

[Indy]

If you have nothing to hide why do you care?

[Mori Chu]

I see what you did there.

[Nodack]

It's none of their business what porn sites mori goes to.

[Mori Chu]

That was for a research project!!

[Wally_West]

That was for a research project!!

I am also doing a "research project". Can we compare notes?

[Ladmo]

No, this totally falls under politics Mori.

There is a terrible trend of intimidation against journalism that has been transpiring. There's only one reason for it and that is to wield power of information over the masses. That's terrifying.

I've been reading about this "Tor" project lately, and its potential for greatness whereas journalism and whistle-blowing is concerned, but its also equally horrendous capabilities for people who intend to do great harm relate.

There's a guy with a youtube channel who scours "The Dark Web" and illuminates some of the incredible nasty things going on there. It does make me wonder if he does this to give Tor a bad name.

I saw a documentary on a kid calling himself "The Dread Pirate Roberts" who was running a website that allowed people to sell illegal drugs on his Tor webpage, and the legal process railroaded the kid. They pretty much wouldn't allow him to defend himself in a court of law. I wonder what's more scary sometimes, things like Tor or our legal system.

Here's the trailer.
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If you get a chance to see it it's really remarkable. If you start looking into what this "Deep Web" supposedly offers, you gotta' wonder what we're coming to as a species sometimes.