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Well, it seems that we’re one step closer to joining old Nazi Germany. As if the government’s plans to monitor social networking sites where not bad enough, another blow has been struck against our privacy. And it’s not just here, it’s happening all over the EU.

This is fast becoming intolerable. Where will the line be drawn? Today the government can check who you’re sending e-mails to, who you’re calling, which websites you’re visiting and what you’re doing on social networking sites- even if you are keeping your activities private. I find the whole thing disgusting.

Oh I can see why it’s done. Phone calls have been logged for years; it was only a matter of time before e-mail was to follow. I don’t like it, but it’s an acceptable situation. Monitoring websites and social networking activities though, now that’s crossing a line. I don’t want people to know what I’m doing online any more than I want them to know what I get up to in my own home. People perk up and shout “There’s no problem if you have nothing to hide!” I tell these people to go and choke themselves and remove their idiocy from the gene pool.

Of course I have something to hide.

I don’t want people to know which porn sites I visit. I don’t want people to know about some of my hobbies and interests, even if they are totally legal. I don’t want people knowing what is basically, my private online activity. How the hell is knowing that I use face book, read 5 web comics, check my web mail, play chess and visit /b/ every evening going to catch criminals? And even so, just because someone visits certain websites, does not mean they are a criminal.

I’ve often looked over ‘questionable’ websites. Places that sell drugs, places used by terrorists or other extremists. It’s interesting; it lets me get a look at the story from their perspective. Nine times out of ten I click away grinning at how retarded the world is, but when someone sees that traffic on my account, what are they going to think? Am I going to get a police file just because I was curious about seeing what someone else was thinking?

The EU passed it by “saying it was a commercial matter and not a police matter”, he explained.

“Because of that they got it through on a simple vote, rather than needing unanimity, which is required for policing matters,” he said.  – BBC news article linked above.

Authorities can get access to the stored records with a warrant. – The same damn article.

Not a police matter my arse. Apart from market research, they will be the only gits to access this information.

He added: “It was introduced in the wake of the London bombings when there was a sense of shock in Europe. It was used to push people in a particular direction.”

When is this going to stop!? In Britain we’ve already shat all over our legal system by allowing people to be held for days without charges, and now the EU itself is succumbing to post terrorist paranoia. You know how many people died in that attack? 56.

You know how many people died in the August 2003 heat wave? 3,000 in Paris- ALONE. And no one batted an eyelid.

The terrorists are wining, and will continue to win as they utterly destroy our freedom, our privacy and our society. And as we let the governments gain more and more of a stranglehold on us, they are less and less likely to give up these new powers. Where do we draw the line? What’s an acceptable loss of our privacy and liberty for so called ‘safety’? Newsflash. You’re more likely to die in a goddamn plane crash than a terrorist attack. How the #### do we justify spending so much money on fighting terrorism when planes are still more dangerous than they are*!? How do we justify invading privacy when we still have homeless and jobless?

*That was sarcasm, just to be point out

It’s nothing more than a diversion. The government has taken terrorism and turned it into something useful. The government keeps us afraid and isolated, pointing us at other made up things to be afraid off to keep us distracted from the simple reality, while reinforcing their own agenda. Two birds with one stone.

There’s no conspiracy, no illuminate, no aliens. The simple fact of the matter comes down to power. Information is power and the more information they have, the more information they control, the more powerful they are. And the easier it gets to claim more information. Dystopia is coming, and the world portrayed in the videogame mirror’s edge is fast approaching a reality.