British Spy Chief Calls For Crackdown On Internet Freedom

Tuesday, October 21, 2014
By Paul Martin

Says ‘plotters, proliferators and paedophiles’ make surveillance-free internet a ‘utopian dream’

by Steve Watson
Infowars.com
October 21, 2014

The outgoing head of the GCHQ, the NSA’s UK equivalent, has slammed proponents of a free internet as ‘dreamers’, and defended those who spy on the communications of everyday people, saying they do “an extraordinary job.”

In a farewell speech at the Churchill War Rooms in Whitehall, Sir Iain Lobban demanded that GCHQ needs the power to “access the Internet at scale” and “dissect it with surgical precision”.

He said that the internet has become home to the “worst aspects of human nature,” and that spies need to be given unfettered power to govern the internet, to weed out “plotters, proliferators and paedophiles.”

Lobban described the idea of the internet as a “totally ungoverned space” as a “flawed utopian dream,” and said that GCHQ employees have been “insulted time and again” by claims that they are implementing a mass surveillance police state.

“You can’t pick and choose the components of a global interception system that you like – catching terrorists and paedophiles – and those you don’t – incidental collection of data at scale: it’s one integrated system.” Lobban argued, suggesting that spying on everyday citizens is a necessary factor of catching evildoers.

“Unfortunately, there’s no badguy.com” he added. “We need strong intelligence and cyber capabilities to identify them and, where international law enforcement doesn’t work, to disrupt them directly. This combination is increasingly essential.” Lobban urged.

“From what we know of ungoverned spaces in the real world, do we really believe that the world would be a better place if the Internet becomes an ungoverned space where anybody can act freely with impunity?” he stated.

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