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Re: Theresa May wins UK Internet villain of the year

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On 05/07/15 17:54, RS Wood wrote:
> From the «congratulations, bitch» department: Title: Theresa May
> Named UK's Internet Villain of the Year Author: help@slashdot.org 
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 03:24:00 -0400 Link:
> http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Qhdhv4mLgRk/theresa-may-named-uks-internet-villain-of-the-year
>
>  An anonymous reader writes with news that Theresa May, the UK's
> Secretary of State for the Home Department, has been named the UK
> internet industry's villain of the year. She won this dubious honor
> for pushing the UK's controversial "snooper's charter" legislation,
> which would require ISPs to retain massive amounts of data regarding
> their subscribers for no less than a year. May championed the
> legislation without consulting the internet industry. Conversely,
> "The MPs Tom Watson and David Davis were jointly named internet hero
> for their legal action against the Data Retention and Investigatory
> Powers Act. 'Surveillance has dominated both the hero and villain
> shortlists for number of years, and it was felt Davis and Watson were
> some of the best informed politicians on the subject,' the ISPA
> said."

Davis is one of the few UK legislators I have any time for, he's been on
the right side of many arguments, especially the rights of individuals.
Watson's OK-ish but a bit more pro-establishment. May got off to a good
start by cutting police funding, but she's a total idiot. She wants to
ban all "psychoactive substances" but have specific exemptions for
coffee, alcohol, etc.

Reactionary populism at its worst.

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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/05/theresa-may-legal-highs-ban-unenforceable-government-advisers

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Theresa May wins UK Internet villain of the year RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-07-05 16:54 +0000
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