Re: Island mentality
"I'm sorry, but that's not even satire -- it's just bollocks."
Is it?
We have lost our rights to privacy in one fell swoop with this law.
The public have been showing their hatred of foreigners (racist and xenophobic attacks up by a large amount since referendum).
Democracy has been pretty bad for a while: No democratic vote has been run on an honest campaign for a fair while, all are done using half truths, twisted logic, and outright lies. Very few actually fact check anything they are told. Democracy without informed opinion is no true democracy.
I can see a policy in future whereby a mobile device brought into the country would have to be checked for compliant (i.e. compromised) software, and confiscated if not.
We are not quite at the point he describes yet, but that's the trajectory, and it's closer than you may think.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
