Quote Originally Posted by Ainsley Harriott View Post
I thought it was a decent point from 'kingbillyboy', and you still haven't given any sort of answer. You don't even seem to be able to entertain the thought that other people have a vastly different view to this than you do.

Just because you're paranoid of your data being collected, doesn't mean everyone is. Most of us just don't care.

I'd rather someone was monitoring Web data to flag up some unscrupulous individuals buying unnerving quantities of ricin, or plotting to blow up the local branch of Boots.

I don't care in the slightest that my searches etc are run through algorithms to check I'm not planning on going out for a spot of terroristing.
kingbillyboy had "a decent point"? Yes I'm sure you'd be jumping through hoops to give a full and thorough answer to someone who comes into a thread and calls you a "window licker" and "cockface".

We'll see just how many terrorists get caught by this law. I think you'll find that it's a whole lot more likely that this law has been put in place at the behest of the likes of Rupert Murdoch in order to catch illegal Sky Sports streamers.

Pretty soon those court appointment letters will be falling through letterboxes all over the country saying something along the lines of "pay £1000 now or go to court and pay £10,000" and old Mr. Murdoch will buy himself a new yacht to celebrate.

Or maybe the Department of Work and Pensions want to see how much time is being wasted by benefit claimants on the Internet so they can use it as evidence to deny claims? Who knows what this law is really about, terrorism is just the front they use to put it in place.

All of these government agencies will be falling over themselves to find ways to utilise this new cash cow that's fallen into their laps, as if we don't get screwed enough already.

And who knows what will be illegal in years to come? You might have already fallen foul of some future law you currently know nothing about. Luckily they'll know who to look for and where to find you.

Some people are keen to be treated as criminals before they've committed any crime, I'm not one of those people.

If you're so keen to give up your liberty then why not just rock up to a prison so the authorities can really keep a good eye on you and make sure you're not a "terrorist".