Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on February 12, 2017, 09:56:00 AM
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Don't even try to find the truth now
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/11/journalists-obtain-leaked-official-material-could-sent-prison/
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And the world gets a little more unsafe.
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I know this is a kind of rhetorical question, but will this fuckwittery ever stop?
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A friend of mine is an anarchist. I'm really starting to sympathise with him.
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This is, of course, merely a proposal from an advisory body about amendments to/replacement of the Official Secrets Act.
My observations suggest that political parties - particularly when in power - pay an extraordinary amount of attention to the gutter press (because this appears to be "read" by the people who make the appropriate determination in a first-past-the-post voting system). The inclusion of such a proposal in a Parliamentary bill would lead to the whole of Fleet Street campaigning for the overthrow of the government which attempted to enact it and possibly to immense condemnatory coverage of the personal ... err ... shortcomings of prominent supporters of the intended legislation.
Such legislation, of course, would only prevent publication in the United Kingdom whose government would have neither power nor influence in a post-Brexit Europe.
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You'd like to think so but given that we have with virtuall no intervention from the press introduced much greater personnel surveillance, and very few of the tabloid press run much of a whistleblowing capacity jyst now. I doubt that they will care.