New Zealand Wants New Spying Powers To Legalize Illegal Spying On Kim Dotcom And Others
from the i'm-sure-that-will-go-over-well dept
You may recall that in the course of the case against Kim Dotcom in New Zealand, it was revealed that the New Zealand intelligence service, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), illegally wiretapped and spied on Kim Dotcom. The GCSB's mandate is that it can only spy on foreign communications, but used its powers illegally domestically. While NZ prime minister John Key apologized for the episode, it has raised lots of questions about his role in the whole matter -- and when he knew the law was being broken. Other info has come out as well, including attempts to cover up the illegal surveillance, and the fact that the GCSB illegally spied on nearly 100 people. Dotcom is now suing the government over this whole mess.Given all that, you might think that PM Key would be focused on putting in place safeguards to stop the system from being so abused in the future. Not so. Instead, as reader aster points out, Key is now trying to change the law to make it easier to spy on citizens and others in the country. In other words, he's seeking to legalize domestic spying for the intelligence agency. The new proposal would allow for domestic spying on citizens and residents if approved by PM Key. As if he didn't already appear untrustworthy in the matter, he's now suggesting that because it has to go through him, it'll somehow avoid abuses? Opposition politicians are pointing out how laughable it is that Key is now asking people to trust him personally that such spying powers won't be abused.
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I'd love to see Anonymous (and I mean anyone) gather intel on this moron and release it publicly on the net to see if he likes being spied. I'd bet most of the morons that want more surveillance and espionage powers would freak out and cry "PRIVACY!" if such thing happened to them.
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If you spy on the government, that's a breach of national security.
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no one fights harder or more dirty to keep their rights than those who wants those same rights removed from everyone else!!
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Defending Megaupload, Mike has narrower focus than a gnat.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston
And YET AGAIN defending a site that ONLY GRIFTED off the value that others produced. And a millionaire from infringement. -- Mike's view of an "economy" is pirating, not producing.
Tag line time! I have 'em on tap (key tap that is) cause Mike repeats the same assertions over and over.
Where Mike's "new business model" (file hosts like Megaupload) is to grift on income streams that should go to content creators -- and then call the creators greedy!
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Re: Defending Megaupload, Mike has narrower focus than a gnat.
New Zealand broke the law when it attempted to arrest and prosecure Kim Dotcom at the behest of the major media companies. Now the NZ government wants to change the law to make what it did legal so it doesn�t run into any problems with arresting and prosecuting Dotcom on future orders from the US media companies and their government lapdogs.
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Re: Defending Megaupload, Mike has narrower focus than a gnat.
He is defending the right of the accused to the same due process afforded to anyone else accused of a crime.
There is a difference.
Are you a crack baby?
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Re: Defending Megaupload, Mike has narrower focus than a gnat.
Also, please spend another few hours pointing up where he explicitly defended MU because so far what he is saying it's right is due process and sovereignty. Actually, spend a few years before coming back.
Tag line time! I have 'em on tap (key tap that is) cause Mike repeats the same assertions over and over.
It's called projection in psychiatric jargon.
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Also to counter your point on piracy. MU hosting a site people can use wasn't illegal. Yes it contained illegal content but many people used it for legal purposes. If you could provide a method that would track down only the illegal files and protect a users privacy while being completely legal and not require 100s of hours to run. Then I would agree about keeping pirated materials off a server. Untill then, I think privacy is more important and people need to use the DMCA process to remove pirated content.
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I am actually amazed at how pervasive the moral arrested development is around the world.
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Our police lost a big case because it hung on evidence illegally gathered. This governments response was to legalise the crime.
As with the GCSB's illegal spying no one is held to account, no one is punished. Breach the rights of any number of people and be one of the privileged - no consequences. But if a private, poor and unprivileged person does any such thing...
The law they're writing is appalling. It boils down to essentially creating a domestic spy agency with no effective limitations authorised to spy on anyone anywhere pretty much anyhow. It specifically says warrants don't have to be targetted, they can be applied to a class of people and reasons for spying can be economic.
So it's clearly intended to be used to spy on everyone in organisations protesting trade agreements, like the TPPP.
Worlds least corrupt country, one of the freest economies with among the greatest social liberties and suddenly we need our own Stasi?
I despise, and always have despised, our government because this authoritarian filth has always been their dream and now we have a Prime Minister who made a fortune trading in the U.S we have someone who thinks we should just be like there because it worked so well for him and fuck the rest of us.
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