On 30 November 2016 at 22:18, Paul Mansfield <paul+uk...@mansfield.co.uk> wrote:
> Ideally though, the gov't would run their own fibre into core network > locations, and pay for the cost of a mirror port to simply feed them > all the traffic, and then I wouldn't have to care what they did with > it. That would seem to be the fairest solution! > I agree. Curiously though, it doesn't seem the home office were interested in listening to the advice from Internet industry on what could or could not be collected and how it should be done. Instead they seem to have invented their own model of how the Internet works and then extrapolated from that what information can be gathered, and they've made it law. Now we have to do it (whatever "it" is) their way. We do truly live in a post-truth age where "people have had enough of experts." Aled