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Not sure how on-topic this is, but I read recently BT are planning to - finally - replace copper with fibre-optic cable to upgrade the entire network. They're talking about 50MB or even 100MB services becoming available.

But if the network is being choked (strangled?) by DPI at every stage, what'll that do to this wonderful new network? What about possibly millions of unsatisfied subscribers who sign up to 100MB and get maybe, I don't know, 10 or 20?

As for IMP - true, it's still only a concept. But it should remain so; unless legislation is changed accordingly, that is NOT legal and if the EU doesn't want mass emigration it'd better stay that way. People in this country talk about emigrating to get away from our surveillance state - I've debated it myself - but where can EU citizens go if every EU country starts doing this?

How fast will the EU part of the Internet be if everyone starts encrypting traffic as a matter of course instead of restricting it to online transactions?

Governments, especially ours, seem to be afraid of their own citizens, which is why they seem to regard 1984 more as an instruction manual than anything else. That's why they want to monitor us. The trouble is, they are frightening us. A common reaction to fear is anger - so perhaps they have reason to be afraid, as their citizenry is getting angrier and angrier. What they don't realise is that they are creating that fear and anger in the first place.

Peaceful protests are only the start. Unless this nonsense ceases, it won't end there. If people get desperate, they start to take desperate measures.

It's got to stop. Somehow, it's got to stop. We will never advance as a species unless we start to trust each other.

(Er...hey, mods, what's happened to my rep? That can't be right, surely - I've never had gold pips before and didn't have 'em yesterday! What the hell?)