Paranoid Times

I just recieved an email from someone whom obviously has their head up their own arse and can only notice one possible privacy violation at a time. I was asked to support a move to block the remergence of the SOPA bill, I think the sender (quite obviously american) is not shall we say up to current speed on current events unfolding worldwide as to the freedoms of information transfer and corporate as well as governmental moves to stamp this out totally. My own country for instance - our government wants to pass a law that gives them unconditional rights to monitor not just our web habits but our phone calls, text messages, emails and how we use copyrighted material legally or illegally, all in the paranoid hope of catching "terrorists" and "paedophile rings" I'd venture to guess that said terror and child pornography rings already bypass these monitoring methods using virtual private networks (VPN) and similarly encrypted datastreams so its really just a further step to reduce our already stunted civil liberty.

In the UK (where I live [exist more like it]) when Labour was in power and proposed such a bill it was universally deplored as such an affront to civil liberty by all opposition parties yet now with our current coalition government (abortion on grand scale) they are proposing the exact same bill.

With such as the corporate dinosaurs in the states proposing shit like this, the government trying it too in the UK it won't be long before the whole world will be a China style big brother society but with the increased adoption of certain technologies by the population as a whole it will be Big Brother with GPS.

This is NOT a rant. Its a statement of fact.