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[News] Protest Against Surveillance by British Government; Iran Has "Facebook Police"

  • Subject: [News] Protest Against Surveillance by British Government; Iran Has "Facebook Police"
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:40:29 +0000
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Spying on us doesn't protect democracy. It undermines it

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| There's nothing new about British 
| governments spying on their own citizens. 
| From the time of Elizabeth I's spy chief 
| Francis Walsingham to the legendary agent 
| provocateurs of the years after Waterloo 
| to the bugging and blacklisting of the 
| postwar decades, espionage against 
| domestic dissenters has long been a staple 
| of British statecraft. For most of the 
| last 
| century, the secret state targeted the 
| left, trade unionists and peace 
| campaigners, along with Irish republicans 
| and anyone else regarded as a "subversive" 
| threat.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/oct/28/spying-doesnt-protect-democracy

Foreign Policy: Iran's Terrifying Facebook Police

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106535773


Yesterday:

UK surveillance plan to go ahead

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| The Home Office says it will push ahead with
| plans to ask communications firms to monitor
| all internet use.
|
| Ministers confirmed their intention despite
| concerns and opposition from some in the
| industry.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8350660.stm
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