http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=33047
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Issue Date: 24/06/1957…

Bill Symon talking to Mr Marcus Lipton MP. CU. Mr Lipton – natural sound, with voice off stage saying
“Do you regard this as a fundamental attack?” Mr Lipton replies: “Oh yes, I regard this whole episode as most sinister an odious.

It is the first time in living memory that anyone has had their conversations intercepted in this way, where the National security was not involved and then to add an insult to injury the information handed over to an outside body. It is absolutely monstrous.”
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http://www.francisdavey.co.uk/2009/12/government-wants-new-powers-to-block.html
“Thursday, 10 December 2009
Government wants new powers to block wikileaks and squeeze web tv

Just over a week ago I wrote a fairly dry legal analysis of the Digital Economy Bill. I spotted an extremely serious provision — clause 11 — in the version being discussed in the House of Lords. Having looked at the amendments (which you can find on the Bill’s document page) I am worried that no-one in Parliament appears to be taking the problem seriously.

What is the problem with clause 11 that I am getting so alarmed about it? It amends the Communications Act 2003 to insert a new section 124H which would, if passed, give sweeping powers to the Secretary of State. It begins:
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/deb-first-look

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2009-10/digitaleconomy.html

http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Lords/bydate/20100106/mainchamberdebates/part008.html

http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Lords/bydate/20100112/mainchamberdebates/part005.html

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200910/ldhansrd/text/100118-0004.htm#1001185000021

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=5496

the they work for you hanserd is also the better place to read as they allow you a direct ability to Add an annotation.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2009-12-02a.743.7

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2010-01-06a.145.2&s=Digital+Economy+Bill

can you collect up your thoughts and reasoning as regards thais and perhaps have a read of the facts as seen by ordinary people regarding Deep Packet Interception , the EU directives and privacy etc….

and post your blog thoughts here ASAP and ask your questions to clarify tech and other things on NoDPI in near realtime.

https://nodpi.org/forum/index.php

However, in this case I believe it to be quite deliberate in that the outcry will shape the regulation that must eventually underpin the Act.

So bloggers comments here must be very welcome by the government. If bloggers feel a little duped by this then they must at least respect the artful use of politics. Don’t flee the blog though, stay with it as the blog is a changer of long held cherished views and an education in Parliamentary practice and procedure necessary for all of us to effect change.

The mention of IP addresses should be moved to regulation and therefore struck from the bill. Customers are then in breach of regulation and whether they have broken the law or not is a matter for a magistrate’s court if the miscreant is formally charged. My view on regulation is that they are by and large a complete waste of time because people ignore them and they only serve to placate vested interests politically.

As for hiding IP addresses, governments all over the world employ the use of such surreptitious behaviour because privacy is often vital to national interests. Can you imagine Royals surfing in plain sight? Can you imagine the Prime Minister or the US President doing the same?

Can you imagine Gary McKinnon failing to hide his IP address whilst snooping up the skirts of a five sided lady wearing no knickers?

Can you imagine children proliferating weapons grade know-how only to protect their parents from their illicit downloading and its retribution? If you can, then it is the stuff of nightmares.

What if I wish to purchase a machine without software installed on it which would cripple what I intend to use it for? Bittorrent is hardly only used for illegal things, you know. Software distribution is increasingly offering torrent sources, and rightly so since it reduces the need for massive centralised servers and pipes.

I don’t know many consumers who ever went to a manufacturer and said “you know what I want your products to do? Less. And can you make sure I can only do the things you leave in with greater difficulty.”

Of course, Microsoft have nonetheless taken this imaginary consumer’s advice to heart, which is quite often why their OSs are so intolerable to use.

Full disclosure: I haven’t yet tried W7 and hear it hardly crashes at all. Nonetheless, if it’s like Vista or XP, I’m sure that a parent can cripple the bejesus out of it without too much difficulty by fiddling with the “parental control” settings.