The Labour government are planning to introduce new laws that will enable them to ban illegal users from using the internet if they can prove they have been using or downloading illegal content, mainly through filesharing sites.
Im not one for conspiracy theories, but this smacks of the government looking for a fight - this time a digital one.
In order to make this work, they will have to monitor all of our internet access.
They are looking to target people who are "very clever" with technology. Lets call them hackers or geeks. These people tend to stick together when the shit hits the fan, so if one of them is targetted, can you guess whats going to happen?
How about a hack into any of the major digital systems that this country now runs on, disabling electricity supplies, putting all the traffic lights in London on green, or cutting telephone systems, etc, etc.
Then, the government gets to stand up and say "We are facing a new type of Terrorist Threat, a Digital One", and they introduce new laws that will let them access and monitor everything online to stamp out this threat.
Of course, the hackers will be using mobile networks and always be one step ahead - but the government will get exactly what it wants and be able to create another level of terrorism to pump billions of pounds into tackling. And of course another way to "control" the masses by giving them another threat to live under.
I already fear terrorism on a daily basis from a "dirty bomb", to a plane crashing into my house, a bomb under my car, being knifed or shot by a 13 year old, being car-jacked, etc, etc. Do I really need another threat?
You should only start wars you have a chance of winning - my money would be on the hackers every time.
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