Are you surprised??!
I am, with almost 100% certainty, sure that someone brought up the "Think of the CHILDREN!" during the discussion.
Because wide-spread state surveillance allows (somehow) the plod to [pre]-identify (potential) child abusers, don't you know.
"We can protect our children by having eyes EVERYWHERE!", the representative from the Sociojustice-Economics Republican Democratic Socialist Leninist Statist Party stated, in [their] (rambling) support of keeping the status quo.
The EU Parliament also backed an agenda of raising their compensation as well as guaranteeing that media coverage of future parliamentary processes shall be excluded from the increased surveillance coverage"
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Sound about right?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
