I would like to make it public how disgusted, disgraced and angered I am about the new government proposals to make social networking sites like our generations' beloved Facebook and Myspace to retain details of their users' movements on the internet.
These obsessive proposals follow plans to store information about every single phone call, email and internet visit made by anyone in the extremely democratic United Kingdom, on a central database.
I think this is absolutely absurd. I suppose I should be able to understand that social networking online is extremely dangerous, especially with the fact that there are so many creepy people saying they are who they most definitely are not and because of this, the younger members of our generation, such as my little brother could be in danger. However spying on everyone for the sake of it, just isn't on.
The government are obsessed with all these databases that contain every tiny detail about each and every one of us - it's actually scaring me stupid how oblivious most people my age are to what is happening and how serious it is.It disgusts me. They take all of our money, they take away our freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of the Media and they are well on their way to taking every little ounce of freedom and dignity that we have left by spying on us through all these stupid, pathetic databases and each and every CCTV camera that takes shots of me wherever I am in this country. Which, may I add, it is estimated that in this massively surveilled country, we each get snapped on about 7 cameras a second or minute - something ridiculous like that.
The last thing I want is to seem as though I'm some type of government hater and that I'm shallow and biased so I shall say what I feel to be one of the positives of living in a country where we are all spied on... which is that if you are breaking the law - you are going to be caught and convicted extremely efficiently. For example, if you are on benefits and working at the same time and you happen to be emailing an employment agency every couple of days or maybe hours (depending on how eager you are) then if they check who you are emailing, it will help them find out that you are breaking the law.
I just don't like the idea of being spied on and having my privacy (privacy being one of my fundamental human rights) invaded in what is supposed to be a free and democratic country.
How can I be proud to be British with our current government?
The govt said it was to help the authorities find out what "terrorists" and "criminal gangs" are planning but it's not as if anyone is going to post on Facebook - "meet you at 8pm, outside the bank, and don't forget the safe-cracking tools".
ReplyDeleteI think it's about time the police started working harder for their living. I wonder if they would know how to investigate a crime if it wasn't recorded on CCTV or logged on a social networking site.
I also think we are in danger of losing our privacy and civil liberties if we allow the perceived fear of terrorism and crime to dictate what we allow the govt to do.