Home Office Hires Ad Agency

[AGirlHasNoName]

What are you thoughts on this?

The govt have hired a high end ad agency to make advertisements to convince the British public encrypted communications shouldn't exist. Some of the tactics they're planning to use are incredibly manipulative, such as using children being unsafe online because of encryption. It's not about anyone's safety at all.

 

[casiquaire]

Its never about safety and its not really about wanting to snoop on people either imo. I generally look at things like this as being about money. Either, theres a complaint that it cant be monetized with adverts so someone somewhere is unhappy with that - usually google. Or the old fear porn tactic of "its to protect our kids" to justify wasting a load of tax payers money. Youll probably find the high end ad agency chief executive is good friends with someone in the government who makes that decision.

 

[Moriarty]

What are you thoughts on this?

The govt have hired a high end ad agency to make advertisements to convince the British public encrypted communications shouldn't exist. Some of the tactics they're planning to use are incredibly manipulative, such as using children being unsafe online because of encryption. It's not about anyone's safety at all.

Thats what the Online Harms bill is all about.
Basically if you read the draft documentation for it, it will moniter the internet.

Do you remember a couple of years ago they wanted to introduce a "Porn Passport" so you had to get an ID card to verify your age to access porn.

It got shelved, but this, coupled with the Police, Crime and Sentencing bill will allow all online communication to be monitered.

They will always say "It's to protect the children", it's laughable, if parents understood online protection filtering and only allowed kids access to the net when it's controlled this would not be a thing.

The government does not like end to end encryption because they cant crack it.

 

[Cado]

Life works on a 'needs' to know basis.
Its bollock all to do with safety IMO and everything to do with "We've been left in the dark" which makes me wonder where half the twats that inhabit these buildings come from. They spend their time struggling to know where they live because they are the culturally excluded, sociology wise.
How else can you explain a Government so frequently at odds with its population.

That just feeds paranoia till they become the last one standing by the door in a room full of people having a conversation. Person A with Person B. Being Person C, they're not invited.

Take a whole load of Person Cs (PCs) stick them in a building marked Home Office and let their paranoia develop.
What did they do before the internet?
They snuck down the mail delivery offices to steam open envelopes, probably their own envelopes.

The government does not like end to end encryption because they cant crack it.

I really don't think this is it. I suspect most UK based companies will co-operate with the Police. The Government and the Police are not two separate things, the Government and the Police are one and the same. Therefore the safety bit is satisfied.

What it is is the internet is free-market, the Government are fascist. Fascist don't like it when others put two fingers up at them upon "do and be told" instructions from Government, any instruction from Government needs to be legally based - there needs to be an actual offence for the Police (as an organisation of Government) to get involved. The Government can micromanage most things, like the media, but not the internet, a world where everyone can be a journalist. The Police work to a higher level of evidence than civil servants or government ministers do - they just work to - "We don't like you, we want to monitor you" - for the Police to do it they would call back "whats the offence, other than so and so just put your nose out of joint".

So the people in Gov are still trying to work around a party they weren't invited to - and its totally illusionary.

anyway, my two cents.