Thread: New gun security laws

Originally Posted by MassiveAttack

The fact that there is two simultaneous pushes to arm front line police and restrict private gun ownership indicates that Ryan is right. This isn't a tinfoil hat conspiricy theory it's the logical conclusion given the facts.

On a similar note there is a worldwide push headed by the USA to restrict the ability of private individuals to share\copy information or media that they own (anti piracy, IP laws, Sky copyrighting the Olympic news) at the same time state governments are affirming their rights to read all of your web traffic and private e-mails whenever they want.

Why is it ok for the NSA\GCSB to read my e-mails the contents of which are private and something I care about personally but I can't download a movie off megaupload.com which only has a very small monitary value and no privacy implication? Why does a Hollywood movie studio have more rights than I do?

The only bright spot in all this is that anything is hackable so the Panama papers got released and Hillary Clinton's emails got hacked and released. Eventually they will intimidate the hackers into stopping though...

Bloody hell were all doomed.

Originally Posted by Taff

Bloody hell were all doomed.

Not necessarily.

It would however be remiss to deny that there is an insidious movement to erode people's rights under the guise of "national security". The USA Patriot Act (USA), Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (NZ), Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Act, 2002 (South Africa) to name but a few examples.

Is it just coincidence or convenience that at least two of these countries happen to have well funded lobbying organisations that advocate additional legislative firearm controls through a campaign of fear mongering and misinformation?

I was being sarcastic , not paranoid