{"id":14466,"date":"2012-04-05T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14466"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:33:37","slug":"a-useful-idiot-wants-even-more-state-surveillance-more-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/05\/a-useful-idiot-wants-even-more-state-surveillance-more-big-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"A useful idiot wants even more state surveillance, more Big Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/danhodges\/100149400\/in-defence-of-big-brother-i-want-more-snooping-not-less\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Hodges<\/a> on his love affair with the surveillance state, and his overwhelming desire for even more government snooping:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I want to live in a surveillance state. Big Brother, come cast your watchful eye over me and mine. I love you, bro.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, when I saw the outcry over Government plans to gain access to telephone, email and internet, my initial reaction was: \u201cYou mean they can\u2019t do that already?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I assumed, somewhat stupidly, that everything we said, typed or viewed was routinely monitored, and then filtered by some giant, super-secret computer tucked away in a heavily guarded subterranean basement of GCHQ: \u201cHodges has just said he wants to shoot another Liverpool player, sir.\u201d \u201cOh, he\u2019s always saying that, Jones. Ignore him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want less surveillance, I want more of the stuff. My idea of the perfect society is one where every street corner has a CCTV camera, everyone has a nice shiny ID card tucked in their wallet and no extremist can even think of logging onto a dodgy website without an SAS squad abseiling swiftly through their window.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Hodges on his love affair with the surveillance state, and his overwhelming desire for even more government snooping: I want to live in a surveillance state. Big Brother, come cast your watchful eye over me and mine. I love you, bro. Seriously, when I saw the outcry over Government plans to gain access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84,10],"tags":[354,58,322,98,911,1461],"class_list":["post-14466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-government","category-liberty","tag-georgeorwell","tag-internet","tag-nannystate","tag-police","tag-surveillance","tag-usefulidiots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Lk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72492,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions\/72492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}