[Colchester] The Internet - My response to Wayland

[Chris Pritchard]

Labour are not liberal, 42 day detention without trial is as far from  
liberal/libertarian as you can go *grumbles*

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On 14 Jun 2008, at 17:12, Toby Whaymand <toby.whaymand at ntlworld.com>  
wrote:

> Hi Wayland
>
> Just to quote you
>
> "So you believe that some sort of control on what sex offenders can  
> do on the Internet is justified? That the average person should have  
> freedoms to do things that a sex offender is banned from doing?"
>
> The problem is the Data Protection Act 1998 which stops ISP's and  
> third parties monitoring and controlling what we do on the  
> Internet.  However there are exceptions to this. For example sex  
> offenders already loose some privately right and high risk sex  
> offender have monitoring devices attached to them so that the police  
> can know were they are 24 hours a day. They may even lose there  
> right to travel aboard.
>
> Clearing the average law binding day-to-day person does not lose  
> such freedoms and so having web controlling software for sex  
> offenders is only limiting that person's digital rights in the same  
> way that the law limits there freedom in the real world, the  
> analogue world.
>
> The above is only my view and I know I am very liberal in my way of  
> thinking.. I am too much of a Labour fan
>
>
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