Saturday 3 January 2009

Yet another police state

Britain leads the way in showing the rest of the world how to become a police state:

A blogger from India recently wrote a piece about the new surveillance laws of India and the arguments used to pass it as well as some of the provisions that were mentioned seemed surprisingly similar to that of laws being brought forth to legislators in countries like Australia, Britain and what is currently being talked about in the United States.


Hmmm.

The blogger creatively sums up a number of provisions with the following:

* Thou shall not author a joke. Not even forward one

* Thou shall not surf Bollywood news

* Thou shall not watch porn


Yep, especially not a joke about a politician. And this, well, does that not sound awfully familiar?

As reported by MediaNama, the bill passed the lower house in a hurry and without debate.


Oh yes, when it comes to bad government, the UK shows the world how it's done.

Anyway, if you were hoping to get away from totalitarianism, I guess you can cross India off the list.

Cunts.

1 comment:

Bristol Dave said...

India was already off the list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India