[k-mcgrady]

This after attending the march in France for liberty and freedom of speech. Hypocrite.

It's also worth mentioning the Mayor of London's thoughts on this:

"I'm not particularly interested in this civil liberties stuff when it comes to these people's emails and mobile phone conversations. If they are a threat to our society then I want them properly listened to."

[stephenr]

One only needs to watch Boris Johnson (mayor of London) in his top gear appearance several years ago (just the driving part is enough) to understand how utterly stupid this man is.

He is a trained seal that performs for treats.

[k-mcgrady]

I used to think that but I read somewhere an ex-employee said that it's all an act. If it is clearly it works because he's liked by too many people. The worry of course is that it's likely he'll end up running for Prime Minister someday soon.

[stephenr]

Whether he's an idiot who acts like an idiot or a genius who acts like an idiot so people like him, he's still acting like an idiot.

Just further evidence that politicians are inherently crazy, by their nature of wanting to be politicians

[BjoernKW]

> "I'm not particularly interested in this civil liberties stuff when it comes to these people's emails and mobile phone conversations. If they are a threat to our society then I want them properly listened to."

Yeah, because that worked so well with perpetrators of the attacks in Paris. These people were actually well-known to authorities as were some of the people who committed the 9/11 attacks. If anything we need to make government and administrative processes both much more transparent and efficient.

I don't think inundating authorities with yet another stream of data they can't possibly make sense of particularly helps the cause.