Nanny says...
What TEH FUCK!!!!They're getting surreal now. Not satisfied with cameras everywhere to spy on the citizenry, now NuLab want the cameras actually to turn into our nannies.
"Naughty boy!"
"Pick up that litter, you shit!"
"I saw you push your sister, you horrid little turd!"
"I saw you trolling, naughty boy. Now say sorry!"
posted by Dr Zen @ 9:42 am
5 Comments:
Holy Big-Ass-Brother, Batman!!!
It doesn't *smack* of BB, it IS Big Brother!!!
That is unbelievable. It's got to be an April Fool's Joke got too late.
Gotta be...
I also think this is too absurd to be true. Think how it would work in practice, or rather not work. What kind of speakers would you need to install so that someone in Sauchiehall Street would hear you? And would every camera then have to be manned 24/7?
If it's not an April Fool, and the date suggests not, then it's a kite being sent up just so it can be shot down. Like the idea of marching people off to the cashpoint to pay their on-the-spot fines, it's being proposed simply so that it can be scrapped forthwith, to show how the government is a listening government.
If it is true, I would really like to get a job on one of those microphones.
I believe it. They say it's already been effective in Middlesbrough (wherever that may be), and I believe them. The vasy majority of litterbugs and loiterers are decent folk who will respond to a faceless scold.
But only for awhile. I can see the long-term effect being to create a generally nastier mood on the street, and a growing impulse to vandalize. The worst part is this:
"... the communities sharing nearly £500,000 in grants to adapt cameras would feel the benefits."
The larger government is bribing the smaller ones to bear the burden of restricting civil liberties, as is done in the U.S. all the time. This removes it as a Constitutional issue and insidiously makes of it a "local control" thing, which everyone wants, only it wasn't a local decision.
Middlesbrough is where nasty li'l mackems follow their shitbrained football team into regular fits of relegation.
See, Zen, I'm learning to fit in :-)
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