monitoring the information in real time.
Home Office Secretary Theresa May said in an editorial published ahead of the bill’s unveiling that only evil-doers should be frightened.
“Our proposals are sensible and limited,” she wrote in The Sun, the country’s top-selling daily. “They will give the police and some other agencies access to data about online communications to tackle crime, exactly as they do now with mobile phone calls and texts. Unless you are a criminal, then you’ve nothing to worry about from this new law.”
It’s interesting to me how my feeling change over the years and as our governments become more oppressive.
“Only evil-doers should be frightened”, Really?! So what happens when they change or expand the definition of an evil-doer?
I love technology and how it makes our lives easier than what our parents and grand-parents had to deal with. But in retrospect my parents and Grand-parents were far more free than I am today. So many new Laws and regulations with the force of law are enacted EVERYDAY.
As Ayn Rand foresaw, we are all criminals today, and that’s how we will be controlled by the regime. Free men cannot be controlled in the same ways criminals can be.
Perhaps the luddites and neo-luddites are correct in their reasoning. Too much technology makes us serfs or slaves to those who would use that same technology to control all aspects of our lives.
“But in retrospect my parents and Grand-parents were far more free than I am today.”
Very much so.