theresa may, why the hell are you attacking the internet now

[Mr Queeba]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/theresa-may-election-latest-internet-regulation-downing-street-speech-manifesto-a7783186.html
so theresa may, despite not winning the majority in the election, is now going to try and regulate the internet and force internet service providers to have spies listen in on private conversations.
this is a complete privacy nightmare and is just bullcrap in general. she thinks that this will stop terrorism, but no, it won't. "oh, terrorists are TOTALLY solely relying on the internet and terrorism will completely stop if we regulate it, let's forget over the public by defeating encryption and privacy altogether!!!1!". without any sort of encryption, stuff will go down, and it will all be this stuffty person's fault.
oh, and guess what, she wants to block code repositories like github and sourceforge (source: http://boingboing.net/2017/06/04/theresa-may-king-canute.html), see how that will forget over many, many people right away.
/discuss

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[JumboMuffin]

cause a stuff ton of terrorist preparation and recruitment happens through the internet

[Mr Queeba]

cause a stuff ton of terrorist preparation and recruitment happens through the internet

yes, but 2 things:
1. she believes that internet regulation will stop terrorism. no, it won't. it may hinder terrorists, but it won't stop them. theresa's argument there is dumb.
2. this is going to screw over the public: no encryption will lead to easy cyberattacks which will destroy people and businesses, blocking code repos will make code collaborations very difficult and will screw over businesses that use them, etc etc

[Doughboy]

i'd rather not have my privacy stripped away too

[Gytyyhgfffff]

this will never happen. people have proposed stripping encryption away before and it's never happened. usually officials start talking to experts and they realize how absolutely stupid they are

[PhantOS]

i bet they wish they had a constitution as good as ours

[randomtroll39]

theresa may?

more like

theresa green amirite lads???

[EcstaticEggplant]

how is she going to achieve this?

[Deus Ex]

Poor UK, stuck between economic vamps and socialists

[Ipquarx]

She's attacking it because she's an old hag who knows nothing about technology

having a loving government censored internet (which literally every single conservative should be absolutely loving enraged by) is not going to stop a couple of forgetfaces from buying a knife from Tesco and stabbing people. It's loving insulting that this is even being considered.

usually officials start talking to experts and they realize how absolutely stupid they are

yeah guess what
theresa may had one of those experts tell her she's loving stupid
she fired him

[NotBomberguy]

the UK was communist anyways

[Tactical Nuke]

this is why corbyn gained seats

loving may goddamn stupid idiot piece of stuff dumbass

[RedGajin]

she wants to...ban encryption? how is that even going to help, anyone thats acting outside of the law is going to encrypt their traffic if they want to lol

[Drydess]

the funny thing is this will screw over her own government more than anyone else

[Maxwell.]

so why did people vote for may again