Comments on: The importance of tolerance http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2006/07/03/the-importance-of-tolerance/ World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:35:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: jcm http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2006/07/03/the-importance-of-tolerance/comment-page-1/#comment-17158 jcm Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:07:14 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=438#comment-17158 An ID card represents a slippery slope towards totalitarian government. By having a single unique tracking identifier that they can force you to use in every transaction of any significance, an ID card creates a perfect mechanism for automated mass spying on a level never before witnessed. It will happen. And it will be very bad. I'm not saying it can be stopped, it's inevitable that governments will abuse technology to screw over all of us and our lives, but I do think the pace can be slowed through sufficient awareness of the problem. The issue is that we need to motivate the MTV viewing public to take interest. Jon. An ID card represents a slippery slope towards totalitarian government. By having a single unique tracking identifier that they can force you to use in every transaction of any significance, an ID card creates a perfect mechanism for automated mass spying on a level never before witnessed. It will happen. And it will be very bad.

I’m not saying it can be stopped, it’s inevitable that governments will abuse technology to screw over all of us and our lives, but I do think the pace can be slowed through sufficient awareness of the problem. The issue is that we need to motivate the MTV viewing public to take interest.

Jon.

]]> By: MaW http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2006/07/03/the-importance-of-tolerance/comment-page-1/#comment-16760 MaW Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:03:37 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=438#comment-16760 * sigh * You forget why the 90 day detentions didn't go through last time. Any change will be very, very closely examined by the House of Lords. It sounds silly to me actually, they're saying they need to do it with serious safeguards. Sure, fine - but if they have 'compelling' evidence to detain somebody for longer, isn't that enough evidence to charge them? It brings in strange but probably not unexpected parallels with the tales the police tell of trying to get the CPS to agree to charge someone against whom they have a pile of evidence. And barring the inevitable IT-based screwup it will involve, what's actually wrong with having an ID card? * sigh *

You forget why the 90 day detentions didn’t go through last time. Any change will be very, very closely examined by the House of Lords.

It sounds silly to me actually, they’re saying they need to do it with serious safeguards. Sure, fine – but if they have ‘compelling’ evidence to detain somebody for longer, isn’t that enough evidence to charge them?

It brings in strange but probably not unexpected parallels with the tales the police tell of trying to get the CPS to agree to charge someone against whom they have a pile of evidence.

And barring the inevitable IT-based screwup it will involve, what’s actually wrong with having an ID card?

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