<story><title>UK Prime Minister: We have put in place Internet filters to block extremism</title><url>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131023/debtext/131023-0001.htm#13102356000002</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephagoss</author><text>The people of England are stereotypically doormats when it comes to this sort of thing. Standing up for rights is not something we&amp;#x2F;they do very well.&lt;p&gt;We are the most survillienced nation, the population the most docile. That is one of the reasons I moved away, no one cares about this stuff, all they want is TV and quite often dole money. Let the filter roll out!&lt;p&gt;Of course there are exceptions, but nowhere near enough to make a real difference. The Government in England gets what it wants no matter what.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I mean England, from my travels the other UK countries do not seem to have the same attitude as England does.</text></item><item><author>GVIrish</author><text>Well that didn&amp;#x27;t take long.  First it was about porn, now the naked power grab begins.  Who gets to define &amp;#x27;extremism&amp;#x27;?  Will information that Snowden leaked now be deemed extremist material?  It seems only natural that the next step will be blocking dissent and content deemed dangerous to the sanctity of the state.&lt;p&gt;People of Great Britain, I hope you&amp;#x27;re not sleeping on this.    Forget the slippery slope, this is the cliff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bport</author><text>The study that made us think the UK was the most surveilled country was a 2006 report, which reported about 4 million cameras in the UK. This report was published by the UK government&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x2F;own&amp;#x2F; information comissioner as a warning of what we could be walking into.&lt;p&gt;A more recent study a couple of years ago put the number closer to 2 million, about 90% of which are privately owned. A large number of privately owned, non-centralised security cameras are not a threat to me in any way. If the government started networking private security for monitoring by the government, &amp;#x2F;that&amp;#x2F; would be the action that would get people (and private companies) up in arms.&lt;p&gt;Other recent government aggression, such as suspicionless stop and searches, extended detention for terrorism offences etc. were successfully challenged in the European court of humans rights within a few years. I&amp;#x27;ve seen a pattern of worrying things slipping passed a sleepwalking public, then reverted later when it comes to light.&lt;p&gt;Apart from all that, this headline in particular is really inaccurate. There was no quote as strong as the subject, but the closest thing is that the PM said they were going to &amp;#x27;block sites&amp;#x27; related to extremeism. This isn&amp;#x27;t a &amp;#x27;filter&amp;#x27;, which implies it&amp;#x27;s something automated that affects all internet activity.&lt;p&gt;The internet surveillance under RIPA &amp;#x2F;is&amp;#x2F; genuinely frightening, but that isn&amp;#x27;t unique to the UK.</text></comment>
<story><title>UK Prime Minister: We have put in place Internet filters to block extremism</title><url>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131023/debtext/131023-0001.htm#13102356000002</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephagoss</author><text>The people of England are stereotypically doormats when it comes to this sort of thing. Standing up for rights is not something we&amp;#x2F;they do very well.&lt;p&gt;We are the most survillienced nation, the population the most docile. That is one of the reasons I moved away, no one cares about this stuff, all they want is TV and quite often dole money. Let the filter roll out!&lt;p&gt;Of course there are exceptions, but nowhere near enough to make a real difference. The Government in England gets what it wants no matter what.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I mean England, from my travels the other UK countries do not seem to have the same attitude as England does.</text></item><item><author>GVIrish</author><text>Well that didn&amp;#x27;t take long.  First it was about porn, now the naked power grab begins.  Who gets to define &amp;#x27;extremism&amp;#x27;?  Will information that Snowden leaked now be deemed extremist material?  It seems only natural that the next step will be blocking dissent and content deemed dangerous to the sanctity of the state.&lt;p&gt;People of Great Britain, I hope you&amp;#x27;re not sleeping on this.    Forget the slippery slope, this is the cliff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZoFreX</author><text>&amp;gt; We are the most survillienced nation&lt;p&gt;We are? I hope you have a better source for that than yelling something about CCTV and 1984 before running away (which is the extent to which most people can make the argument).&lt;p&gt;I do agree with the rest. Apathy is the name of the game here.</text></comment>