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by k-mcgrady 3484 days ago
I'm vehemently against this legislation - but I also did not sign the official petition. One reason was that, yes I might end up on some list. I believe that risk is very small but the reward potential of signing the petition is effectively zero so why bother taking the risk? The bill had no real opposition so what use is a debate going to be, especially when all it now requires is royal assent (Edit: Just saw that happened yesterday, fuck). A debate would have been useful 12 months ago.

At this stage the important thing is to have it go through the courts and have them stop it. Hopefully, as long as we're still in the EU, the ECJ can do something to at least water this bill down. At the very least I would like to see the requirement for Internet Connection Records to be held for everyone to be removed. I don't like the ability for 12 months of data to be collected with a warrant but at least there is some process there and some oversight.