Current mood:	surprised
Entry tags:	politics

Politics. Because it's apparently either that or football in media today
Oh my god! My not exactly tech-savvy parents and their elderly neighbour discussed and had an opinion on the FRA law! I'm shocked, sort of.

Info note for the non-Swedes: The FRA law is a new law proposal giving the military intelligence the power to listen in on communications to and from Sweden going in cables (and not like earlier only the over the air radio transmitted ones), "accidentally" in the same time giving very much the same powers to wiretap Swedish-to-Swedish communications due to the nature of how internet and other modern technologies work. In short, the Swedish government have decided to be a leading European power when it comes to spying on people - never mind the integrity breach it brings - and the proposal was voted through yesterday evening after some unusually publicly visible shepherding of party members with doubts who threatened to deviate from the official party views of things.

EDIT: Since it's big enough to go on BBC, I can just as well link it.


And since I've said A, I guess I have to say B too, even if it means me getting political, which is something I try to avoid here. Or maybe it's really more of system criticism than being political, I don't know.


Me, I'm as much against this law as the rest of the population seem to be - except the absolute majority of the politicians in the parliament (yes, I know the biggest opposition party voted against the proposal, but we all know they didn't do it out of worry for the citizens integrity but only because it's not their proposal anymore as it used to be) - and I admit I'm a little disappointed to see that the will to defect from official party lines still is so low. Not surprised for a moment, but disappointed, because it tells of one of the big flaws in the system - that party loyalty becomes more important for the individual politician than own beliefs and the (theoretical) loyalty toward the voters.


And all this brought to you only because I got astonished hearing my parents discuss something I didn't know they had all that much interest in...