Parliamentary committee: “censor media”
This is really chilling:
“Britain’s security agencies and police would be given unprecedented and legally binding powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security, under proposals being discussed in Whitehall.
The Intelligence and Security Committee, the parliamentary watchdog of the intelligence and security agencies which has a cross-party membership from both Houses, wants to press ministers to introduce legislation that would prevent news outlets from reporting stories deemed by the Government to be against the interests of national security.”
The existing, voluntary system works pretty well. Nor would such stringent rules necessarily make Britain safer, as surely the security services benefit from scrutiny. Oh, and does anyone believe that these powers would only be used for national security matters, when we have seem how anti-terrorism acts have been used?
Couldn’t agree more. I’m glad that people are waking up to the fact that Labour always seem to have a hidden agenda behind legislation.
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Centrally controlled closed circuit tv,
Laws encroaching personal freedoms,
Massive government expansion into private enterprise.
What would Orwell say if he were alive? He wouldn’t be talking about sweet peas, eggs and goats, as he was at exactly this time half a century ago.
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You are correct ‘this is really chilling’.
After I read the Independent article, I had to ‘wind back up’ my jaw … which had hit the proverbial floor.