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A few things have come to my attention over the last week, but I never got round to commenting on them. So, here goes...
ITEM! The death of a child is a horrible thing, and the murder of a child perhaps the greatest crime there is, that an individual can commit. Society wants to do something to at least try and prevent such things from happening in the future - but pressuring the number one search company in the world to "block the pr0n"...? Oh please.
Did such crimes suddenly spring into existence with the advent of the 'net? NO.
Will this kind of action stop those who are hungry for child-abuse material from finding it? NO.
Go after the monsters who MAKE this material, and those who make a business out of distributing it. Anything else is like finding a dead car-crash victim in the middle of the road, and expecting them to return from the dead when you put a plaster on a graze on their elbow.
ITEM! And to make matters worse, web-wise, there is a move to bring in the previously scrapped "snoopers' charter" on the grounds that it "might stop another Woolwich (the murder of a serving soldier, not long after he left the barracks there, by two religious extremists)". Care to go and use that man's grave as a toilet while you're at it? 'Cause you're already pissing away the freedoms he fought - and DIED - for.
And whilst you're tearing down everyone's rights to privacy, please tell me who's going to pay for all this technology, and storage media? The general public, the vast majority of whom are law-abiding - and they'll pay twice, as the Government puts taxpayers' money into this, and the ISPs charge more to cover their side of it all.
The police already have all the powers they need to deal with "fundamentalist terrorism" - they go to a judge, present their case for a surveillance effort, and they can dig for whatever they need. And don't give me that "Nothing to fear if you've nothing to hide" crap...
ITEM! ...or worse still, maybe you'll leave it all in the *cough, splutter* capable hands of your buddies, Anonymous. Yeah, the "hacktivists" who "outed" a bunch of people as members of a particular right-wing "political party" - and just who will they pass judgement on next? Will they ever apologise if they get it wrong...?
And will those who think these masked clowns are so great be so supportive when they discover they're not on Anonymous's list of prefered users for THEIR hacker-paradise internet?
ITEM! The death of a child is a horrible thing, and the murder of a child perhaps the greatest crime there is, that an individual can commit. Society wants to do something to at least try and prevent such things from happening in the future - but pressuring the number one search company in the world to "block the pr0n"...? Oh please.
Did such crimes suddenly spring into existence with the advent of the 'net? NO.
Will this kind of action stop those who are hungry for child-abuse material from finding it? NO.
Go after the monsters who MAKE this material, and those who make a business out of distributing it. Anything else is like finding a dead car-crash victim in the middle of the road, and expecting them to return from the dead when you put a plaster on a graze on their elbow.
ITEM! And to make matters worse, web-wise, there is a move to bring in the previously scrapped "snoopers' charter" on the grounds that it "might stop another Woolwich (the murder of a serving soldier, not long after he left the barracks there, by two religious extremists)". Care to go and use that man's grave as a toilet while you're at it? 'Cause you're already pissing away the freedoms he fought - and DIED - for.
And whilst you're tearing down everyone's rights to privacy, please tell me who's going to pay for all this technology, and storage media? The general public, the vast majority of whom are law-abiding - and they'll pay twice, as the Government puts taxpayers' money into this, and the ISPs charge more to cover their side of it all.
The police already have all the powers they need to deal with "fundamentalist terrorism" - they go to a judge, present their case for a surveillance effort, and they can dig for whatever they need. And don't give me that "Nothing to fear if you've nothing to hide" crap...
ITEM! ...or worse still, maybe you'll leave it all in the *cough, splutter* capable hands of your buddies, Anonymous. Yeah, the "hacktivists" who "outed" a bunch of people as members of a particular right-wing "political party" - and just who will they pass judgement on next? Will they ever apologise if they get it wrong...?
And will those who think these masked clowns are so great be so supportive when they discover they're not on Anonymous's list of prefered users for THEIR hacker-paradise internet?
