It is appalling what currently is happening in the aftermath of the crazy Paris attacks.
Some of the biggest offenders of the Freedom of Press are now not battling for the protection of the press, but for being seen by the media as one of the mourners in the first row of the Paris events on the weekend (for a better overview of that see https://storify.com/tometty/staunch-defenders-of-free-press-...)
Most of these providing their "condolences" have been constantly mocked by CH, have tried to criminalize the work of CH in the past (e.g. German politicians), and are now shamelessly exploiting media attention and believe again that there will be no better time to even further crush the rights of European citizens, some with measures (e.g. further extending telco data retention, dragnet snooping in the UK & Germany) that latest with the events in Paris should again been demonstrated as not effective to protect from such attacks (both measures were already in place and broadly used in France before the attacks).
We can only hope that Cameron's statement in the article linked is solely a political one, fishing for voters in the far right & UKIP spectrum. Otherwise this might be another nail in the coffin of a growing and successful UK Internet industry.
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It is appalling what currently is happening in the aftermath of the crazy Paris attacks.
Some of the biggest offenders of the Freedom of Press are now not battling for the protection of the press, but for being seen by the media as one of the mourners in the first row of the Paris events on the weekend (for a better overview of that see https://storify.com/tometty/staunch-defenders-of-free-press-...)
Most of these providing their "condolences" have been constantly mocked by CH, have tried to criminalize the work of CH in the past (e.g. German politicians), and are now shamelessly exploiting media attention and believe again that there will be no better time to even further crush the rights of European citizens, some with measures (e.g. further extending telco data retention, dragnet snooping in the UK & Germany) that latest with the events in Paris should again been demonstrated as not effective to protect from such attacks (both measures were already in place and broadly used in France before the attacks).
We can only hope that Cameron's statement in the article linked is solely a political one, fishing for voters in the far right & UKIP spectrum. Otherwise this might be another nail in the coffin of a growing and successful UK Internet industry.
Some additional info: Noam Chomsky on the aftermath / events in Paris - http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/We-Are-All---Fill-i... Reporters sans Frontieres / Reporters without Borders: http://en.rsf.org/rwb-condemns-presence-of-predators-11-01-2...