tort1234: Bills like these get passed because the general public WANTS these bills to get passed.
The average person these days is obsessed with safety, security and comfort. They will happily give away their rights for the promises of more security.
Majority of patriot act supporters were women because they wanted online safety from supposed harassment and more security in their day to day lives.
Some of the slutwalk supporters in my neighbourhood are totally okay with the government putting up surveillance in every corner of the street. Their logic is that when they go to party dressed up like sluts, they want the feeling of safety knowing that the government is watching their back.
People like this happily support more government intrusion.
I think in America you are half/third-right. There seems to be a very uneducated call back for segregation and limitations or the individual rights. A lot of the Universities who published demands wanted safe-spaces that would be segregated into black and white sections as well as choosing skin colour over ability in the faculty.
I also think I get now why the UK government is beginning to push the "how to survive a terrorist attack" matra again. We have not enough students protesting for mummying by their teachers here yet. So we might just go under another false flag early next year to get people to hand over their rights here too. So many people will also happily do it, they still believe that the government has their best interests and safety at heart.
After all you only have to look to France to see how they all knee-jurked into another pointless war that has absolutely nothing to do with them. Just as we did after 9/11 and the 7/7 bombings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAe7_kXTsbM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jxOXbpTmnk You say about women being the majority of the supporters and on Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and probably other places too, women do tend to be the first to call on people being hammered into line or out. So I guess I see where you are coming from. Even so, I really doubt that anyone with a functioning mind would actually be calling on the government to actively sweep through social media to ban bad words. They would probably be more likely (as they were with Google) to attack the companies running the sites to protect them.
Tauto: What a load of crap!!! No one wants their privacy intruded on.
Really? Have you any idea how many university students have been demanding that security forces crack down on everything happening on their campuses in the USA. They want teachers to have to curb saying bad words that hurt their feelings and to have books edited so they no longer can offend.
This is the same crap as when Christians say ban Harry Potter for showing witchcraft, it is just being said by different people using different words. The reality is, people wont like it when it happens, but they will happily vote for it right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJVZa9_Ha5c Just look at the number of people on Twitter clambering for there to be better filters to stop people saying nasty things or all those who wanted Google to built up its wrong speak system. You know the reason when you log into Youtube it asks you do any of these videos offend or upset you? Also see the first 20 seconds of that same video.
Also in the UK people have become so accustom to having their privacy intruded that we now have the most CCTV cameras per person in the world, and we also have the highest amount of private (as in not owned by the government) CCTV's in the world. So again people might not like it when they see what it really happening, but they will at the same time happily encroach on others rights without a second thought.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/spy-britain-six-million-cctv-cameras-and-most-are-in-private-hands-8699934.html Siegor: Looks like George Orwell wasn't that far off...
In my opinion he was, he just underestimated them.
Just look at China to see what Europe and the USA want for surveillance in 5-10 years time. It really wont be the government feeling the need to enforce it, they will just persuade others to do it for them.