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aGameOfThrones
06-15-2012, 04:16 AM
In a move sure to shock racist- and sexist-abuse hurling teenagers everywhere, the UK government has set out plans to monitor internet use in the UK. All UK communication companies, under the proposed legislation, will be obliged to keep records of all sites that users visited for at least a year. Categories that could be retained include information about social network usage, webmail, Skype calls, and gaming.

There's a rule that in any UK government that there's a hardline anti-fun person. Under the Labour party, it was David "iron fist" Blunkett.*Ironically, posh shoe-loving Theresa May (not the much better-known*porn star) is the current Home Secretary, whose job is basically to see how far he or she can restrict other people's pleasure. Both liberals and conservatives are against this move, given its intrusiveness. For example, the relatively-well-respected Tory MP David Davis has described the bill as "incredibly intrusive" and said it would only "catch the innocent and incompetent."*

http://www.pcgamesn.com/article/daring-bugs-may-uk-governments-plans-track-our-gaming

DamianTV
06-15-2012, 12:45 PM
The more information they have about you, the more control they have over you. Hell, they probably even know if you would rebel against the government before you do.