[Colchester] The Internet - My response to Wayland

[Wayland Sothcott]

Chris Pritchard wrote:
> Labour are not liberal, 42 day detention without trial is as far from 
> liberal/libertarian as you can go *grumbles*
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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Toby,

Yes, I am with Chris on the Liberal thing. Your point of view would be 
classed as right wing with moderate language. You are not asking for the 
castration of sex offenders. I used to be right wing when I was in my 
teens but sort of went left wing as I got older. I also think you are 
wrong about normal people not being affected by moves to limit sex 
offenders. For an example of how legislation is used in creative ways, 
the council can now do their own investigations and follow people about 
and look at all sorts of private data under anti-terror laws.

Jaquie Smith Home Secretary again does not think the Data Protection act 
applies to BT, Virgin or Talk Talk. Probably because she is asking ISP's 
to break this in some cases. I am referring to Phorm and what was 
commented on on TheRegister recently.

Wayland.