Friday 8 December 2023
Monday 22 May 2023
Conspiracy Realist
The Telegraph's Meredith Walker, wrote an article yestereday corroborating the key points I made in my previous post. They are that when .GOV has an inconvenient human rights obstacle to remove, it cannot manufacture easily ignored mandates such as the lockdown rules broken by Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Dominic Cummings, Sir Keir Starmer, Neil Ferguson (subsequently rewarded with an OBE), SNP MP Margaret Ferrier and Sir Gavin Williamson (Knighted for his efforts) among other Members of Parliament.
“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.” ― Henry Kissinger
Here's the article.
During my two decades in tech I’ve seen governments manufacture public outrage to serve their desire for control more times than I can count. There’s a predictable pattern that starts with a complex social problem receiving widespread attention. Everyone acknowledges the gravity of the issue. There is a rush to “do something”.
But “something” too often involves magical thinking and specious “solutions”. Frequently, technology is painted as both cause and solution. Problems are presented as existing “online” and thus their solution is framed as technological. This almost always involves some combination of expanding surveillance and curbing the fundamental human right to privacy and free expression.
The Online Safety Bill is a perfect example. Under the pretext of protecting children, its provisions could lead to the implementation of government-mandated mass surveillance applications on every UK smartphone. These would scan every message you send.
The opaque databases and error-prone AI technology that would power this surveillance regime could lead to the mass deplatforming of millions of people based on unreliable algorithmic systems. Such a system would also introduce vulnerabilities and flaws that would inevitably be exploited by hostile states and hackers.
While politicians have denied for months that the Bill will break encryption, the Home Office has been quite clear that it believes end-to-end encryption is enabling child abuse on the internet.
The cynicism of this argument is made clear when we recognise that the Government has reduced support for measures protecting children that seem more likely to work. Early intervention services spending was slashed by 50 per cent from 2011 to 2021; referrals to children’s social care rose 9 per cent in 2021-22 alone.
There’s no way to square this with the idea that protecting children is the first priority, rather than a pretext for government-mandated mass surveillance.
As written, experts agree the Bill would nullify end-to-end encryption, which Signal and other apps use to ensure that only you and the people you’re talking to read your messages.
This encryption is what stands between citizens and the criminals, scammers and (sometimes) regimes that would dearly love to have access to their innermost thoughts.
This would make Britain a global role model for repressive regimes. If the UK declares that it’s fine to surveil all communications, it will set a precedent others will follow.
It will have written the playbook by which authoritarians around the world could justify similar systems, where phones could automatically report citizens to the government if they write “Hong Kong Democracy”, “Ukraine Invasion”, “LGBTQ resources” or whatever else a government decides to ban. Being the first country to mandate such systems would be a stain on Britain’s legacy.
Whatever happens, Signal is committed to ensuring people everywhere have the ability to communicate privately. When the Iranian government blocked Signal, we recognized that the activists, journalists and citizens in Iran who needed privacy were not represented by the authoritarian state. We worked to set up proxies and other means to help them access Signal.
If the Online Safety Bill is passed, we promise that we will do everything in our power to ensure that the British people have access to safe and private communications. But we will not undermine or compromise the commitments we have made to you, no matter what the Government says.
However bleak the prospect, I remain optimistic that it will not come to this. The cynical and unworkable reality of the Bill is becoming clearer, and well informed politicians are moving to remedy its most troubling provisions.
The Online Safety Bill is part of a pattern. But it’s a pattern we can stop here. There are real measures that the Government can take to protect children and I sincerely hope that Parliament will look to address them, rather than stripping away privacy and other fundamental rights.
Meredith Whittaker is president of the Signal Foundation
Wednesday 28 December 2022
Monday 19 December 2022
New Zealand Intelligence Chief Greenlights Snitching
Saturday 10 September 2022
Tryouts For The Human Race
Tuesday 14 November 2017
Thursday 14 May 2015
Friday 12 April 2013
Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact - US Military Confirms Chemtrails Are Real
Saturday 27 October 2012
The Paedophile Political Power Elite Rabbit Hole
Powerful Political Paedophile Rings In The UK
It's hard for many people to grasp that the gatekeepers of British and American politics in Parliament and Congress are most interested in political power seekers who can be put into situations where they are engaging in blackmailable sexual situations before they come to power and not know they are being filmed and photographed.
Monday 15 October 2012
Bill Maloney of Pie'n'Mash Films On Jimmy Savile
Bill Maloney's sister was at the Haute de la Garenne Jersey child care home where the kids were being raped by Savile and provided to the yachting community including Ted Heath. His sister appeared in the photo with Jimmy Savile and was murdered when he made a documentary called Sun, Sea and Satan and which you can watch over here.
Saturday 8 September 2012
Patti Smith Sings For Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie was run over by an Israeli military bulldozer crushing Palestinian homes to make way for land stealing settlers, and the driver reversed over Rachel's body for good measure.
Wednesday 5 September 2012
CNN's Censorship of Amber Lyon's Bahrain Reporting
A proponent of peace, @nabeelrajab risked his safety to show me how the regime oppresses the ppl of #Bahrain. twitter.com/AmberLyon/stat…
— Amber Lyon (@AmberLyon) August 16, 2012
Monday 20 August 2012
Pussy Riot Are Fake
However Chunky Mark kinda makes the point I was making earlier. I've already noticed that people are paying attention to Nabeel Rajab who is a Bahrain human rights activist sentenced to three years jail for a tweet. The controlled media are ignoring him because the fifth fleet are stationed in Bahrain so we don't get to hear about the torture they do on their own people.
Tuesday 6 March 2012
Monday 20 February 2012
The Arab Awakening - Tweets From Tahrir
An excellent timeline documentary punctuated with Twitter activity. Watching this makes it self evident that of course the global security apparatus complex (Govcorp) are in full-on panic mode and shit-scared of humanity. We're the reason governments funnel endless money (our taxes) into snooping agencies and paramilitary police forces (and intelligence agencies) to keep this twisted consensus-unreality in place including the fake left/right political divide, support for victim perpetrator religions, jingoistic predator flag-waving wars, planetary rape, big oil free-energy technology suppression and the list goes on and on and on.
The choice is entirely yours.
We're humans. Push us too far and we have nothing to lose. You'll never see that.