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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Which is fine, until the definition of "done nothing wrong" is amended by the Government of the day.....  |
Precisely. The law of unintended consequences guarantees that these things would have been used beyond the way they were intended to be used. Just as CCTV cameras have been used to pad out ITV1's weekday schedule and anti-terror laws have been used to persecute amateur photographers.
I am so, so glad we have a coalition now in power with a broad agreement that liberty, rather than authoritarianism, should be the rule of thumb when making laws.