I think we should cc david.cameron@number10.gov.uk into all our emails. Then we won't need new legislation #telldaveeverything
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Judith Flanders (@JudithFlanders) April 02, 2012Plans to allow a British intelligence agency to monitor all emails, phone calls, texts, and web activity in the country have sparked a Twitter backlash against Prime Minister David Cameron:
"Resentment" over UK Big Brother internet snoopers? There should be revolution, not just resentment. telegraph.co.uk/technology/new…—
Roger Kimball (@rogerkimball) April 02, 2012
Tell you what Mr Cameron, you can read all of my emails if I can read all of yours. That seems only fair. #telldaveeverything—
Kirsty Hall (@kirstymhall) April 02, 2012
Dave, if you are looking at everyone's email could you delete all my spam for me while you do it? It's 95% of my mail #telldaveeverything—
Brian Kellett (@Reynolds) April 02, 2012
Accidentally deleted an important email. Can I restore from your copy, please, Mr Cameron? #telldaveeverything ( bit.ly/HfAwC4)—
Richard Gaywood (@PenLlawen) April 02, 2012
UK citizenship: now with automatic free cloud-based backup of emails, Facebook messages, bookmarks, browsing history, … #telldaveeverything—
Richard Gaywood (@PenLlawen) April 02, 2012
h/t @_bransby_ @DaveGurman If govt wants to monitor my emails I'll make a point of calling them c***s in every message.#telldaveeverything—
bob woods (@brummytaff) April 02, 2012
When reports of the law appeared on Sunday, some tweeters assumed the electronic surveillance proposal was an April Fools’ Day prank:
I also very much hope that this Big Brother Law news is one big gag. Utterly ridiculous.—
Tom Davies (@TomAndThat) April 01, 2012
guys… it's the first of april and you're circulating a bbc article saying the government wants to monitor emails etc—
aurist (@Aurist) April 01, 2012
But that hope was dashed after the news was linked by Drudge late Sunday:
Oh, this doesn't appear to be an April fool after all! Campaigners criticise email and web monitoring plan bbc.in/H9ItLs—
Mark Gleaves (@MarkGleaves) April 02, 2012
So it turns out that this web/email/etc monitoring thing doesn't seem to be an April Fools… guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr…—
Luke Hebblethwaite (@LF_Uncertainly) April 01, 2012
Concerned citizens are circulating an e-petition asking the British government to ditch the proposed law before it becomes “no different from regimes it criticises such as China and Iran.”
This will prove popular methinks: >> Scrap Plans to Monitor all Emails and Web Usage – e-petitions epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32400—
Peter Herlihy (@yahoo_pete) April 02, 2012