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Where are the freedoms that we had in the 70's and 80's? Increasingly we are seeing freedoms that we all took for granted in the UK increasingly coming under attack. Freedom of speech is one that people see as one of the most noticeable of our freedoms that slowly but surely is being curtailed.
They're not on the road yet, but some believe it is just a matter of time before there will be some serious clampdowns on what you are and are not allowed to talk about on social media.
https://twitter.com/londontaxitrade/...20647892013056
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rynxqdNMry4
Unsure why you think you are any less free. Completely wrong actually.
What were you allowed to say in the 70's and 80's that you cannot now?.
What method did you use to make these statements in the 70's and 80's exactly?.
Because last time I checked only now you have a way of saying things in public - social media.
And only now is it being policed. As it should be.
And you have never been free. Ever. Money, passports, laws etc. You about as free as a north korean in a gulag.
Your last sentence is nonsense. I can't believe you have any memory of the 1970s otherwise you wouldn't ask many of those questions. To get an insight into what was acceptable then have a look at TV shows the like of Till Death Us Do Part and Love Thy Neighbour on Youtube. There's reasons why they are not repeated on terrestrial channels.
My father would say that I have more freedoms in this modern world. Yes you could say more in the dark room back in the 70's. But in general life we have so much more freedoms to enjoy.
What freedoms have been taken from you SD. How has it effected you. I am too young to even be alive back then, so please educate me.
Freedoms, in what context? It certainly isn't privacy wise. We are the most watched people on the planet.
So CCTV watching you is a trespass on your freedom? Granted internet monitoring is prevalent in this day and age. But you didn't have internet in the 70s. So the method of free speech available to you in the 70's are still free today as they were then, are they not?
And what exactly do you have to worry about about being watched on the internet? Unless you believe in the conspiracy of the thought police. 99.99% of people have absolutely nothing that will be watched and looked over.
If we look at what else is different about the 70's and now, Paedos for example. Back then free to abuse almost openly. Today the internet has made this easier for them. Should we allow paedos free passage on the internet to share children. Or should it be policed? So that certain crimes can be targeted. Policing has convicted hundreds, and saved thousands of children. I know your concern SD is that the thought police will make everything a crime and convict us all. Well please leave that type of paranoia to where it came from, in the USA. The government are not out to get us all.
Here's just five for you:
2006 Terrorism Act https://www.article19.org/data/files...-icj-panel.pdf
Freedom of expression and protection of privacy over the Internet is guaranteed by UK law. Nevertheless that hasn't stopped the government from increasingly implementing surveillance and filtering.
In 2011, a series of privacy injunctions, so called 'super injunctions', were introduced thereby preventing the public's right to know about certain events or incidents which could be in the public interest, i.e. previously able to have been reported on.
In 2016 the government moved to stop publicly funded organisations boycotting companies they consider "unethical".
Also in 2016 the government announced plans to ban "any public authority from imposing a boycott on a country signed up to the World Trade Organisation government procurement agreement".
As said, how is this comparable to the 70's, when the internet was not around?.
Who is to say in the cold war era that the surveillance would be less than now?????
Terrible question, but is paedophilia freedom of expression?.
Last edited by LordKenwyne; 23-08-16 at 13:41.
Sounds like they are simply updating existing policies for a modern technology and threat.
They carried out propaganda before this and way before the 70's. Only today its more out in the open for everyone to see what they are doing. so people like you can spend a lifetime (is that all its been, feels like several) tracking what happens and bring the occasional thing to everyones attention. Aint it great the freedom we have to question and to hold our government to rite. Never had that in the 70's. You would be beaten by a baton instead.
I won't dignify that last point with a response.
However when it comes to 'freedoms' they take many forms as practices that were commonplace in the 70's and to some extent in the 80's, as far as union collective bargaining is concerned, have now been adversely affected in the UK as a result of the EU's bias towards capital rather than labour.
http://www.tuaeu.co.uk/the-terrible-...-union-rights/