no funny pictures or cat picture on Facebook, a direct police browser button, and comprehensive surveillance system. And what the fuck is “Internet companies must allow only real, common names” supposed to mean? That you can only register as a user on internet sites with real, common names? Or something more retarded? €400,000 for such a bunch of stupidity.
The only saving grace of the whole idiotic (although expensive) mess is the stupid twat But Klaasen (sic) who appears completely confounded that he can’t trust people. “Why can’t I trust people?” says the guy in charge of counterterrorism and security. D’oh. Well he could start by trusting the citizens that he wish to subject to a tyranny of legislation and surveillance.
If it makes you feel any better, our politicians don’t understand the Internet either. And, for what it’s worth, that’s a really, really stupid list of ideas.
“Terrorists must register their intention to commit a terrorist act no less than three months in advance, and must further click on a button confirming that they ‘really really no-fooling promise’ that they’re telling the truth.”
I’m not looking forward to reTERRA, the system where you have to prove that you’re not a terrorist twice, once with an answer to a real quesiton and once with an answer to a randomly selected quesiton that people will later decide whether or not is a valid means of determining that you’re a terrorist.
Attempting to sabotage the counter-terrorism department paperwork squad? All anthrax must be inspected at the derpartment of biological weaponry and approved by the office of international terrorism. Quantities larger than 25mg…
Ahhhh - I can’t tell if the system is rejecting me because I’m a terrorist or because I can’t read that stupid upside down greek letter in italics with a line through it that was scanned from a notebook that had coffee spilled on it.
This is the government. You should probably look for another buyer.
The most terrorized I have ever been by a website is from one of those gotcha images that gets loud and scary after about 30 seconds. I have no objection to such links being punished to excess.
Did you even read the article? These items are the most ridiculous ones cherry-picked from a rough brainstorming list in which every possible idea was recorded, regardless of feasibility or legality.
Maybe. And maybe Mr. Klaasen is reacting to public outcry. However, I would have called Rune a douche for describing an unpublished draft document as the programme’s “recommendations” had I actually read the article. Mea culpa.
“Internet companies must allow only real, common names.”
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I am a native English speaker. I assume my Scottish and Welsh customers are also, though evidence is sometimes lacking. However, the people who first wrote Gaelic names in Roman letters knew little which sounds were associated with which letters and lacked any consistency when they wrote them down, so real, common names can have many spellings, each more imaginative than the last. Does the EU plan to set standard spellings on real, common names so I don’t end up realizing after the call that the guy I could not understand was named “Alan?”
The fact that some of these were brought up even in a brainstorming session strongly suggests that some participants in that session should not be allowed near any decision-making process more critical than choosing which crayon to use.
The name I am commonly known by, the name in my Driver’s License, the name in my Spanish national ID, the name listed in my Birth Certificate are all different.
Which one is my real name?
And by the way, facebook (which claims to only accept “real names” and I guess is what the person proposing that had in mind) would not accept any of the above. Too many words.