Web Game Lampoons British Govt's Plan to Monitor Internet Usage

May 4, 2009

The Labour Goverment of Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pushing ahead with plans to monitor all Internet usage in the U.K.

Britain's Conservative Party is against to the plan and that opposition is the basis for t-enterprise's latest online political parody, Hands Off Our Data!

In the game players assume the role of Conservative leader David Cameron. Wielding an old school raygun, players must blast data mining spiders bearing the likenesses of Gordon Brown and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith while allowing e-mail packets and search engine traffic to pass by.

Posted in Online Games Parody Privacy U.K.

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Re: Web Game Lampoons British Govt's Plan to Monitor Internet

Submitted by londinio on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 19:41.

It's like Britain during WW2, and before.

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Submitted by JleeLink on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 12:36.

Now if Jeremy Clarkson was Prime Minister he would fix things up!

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Submitted by Father Time on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 18:18.

Holy cow, I outscored gamepolitics, woohoo (Robert Z).

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Submitted by axiomatic on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 10:56.

Just relax everyone. We are "in the home stretch" to use a baseball term. Old people in positions of power who don't understand this new fangled internet thing with its freedom of information that arrives from a series of tubes are going to die off soon enough. Their generation is almost done. Then the UK can finally enjoy a normal life again being run by people who have only known a world with computers and information at their fingertips.

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Submitted by acotas548 on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 02:38.

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Submitted by ZippyDSMlee on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 15:08.

Public apathy is still ripe so even if the old coldgers die off the young morons that via for votes and bend over for business as a job will keep screwing the people over.

I am a criminal because I purchase media,I am a criminal because I use media, I am a criminal because I chose to own media..We shall remain criminals until Corporate stay's outside our bedrooms..

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Submitted by hellfire7885 on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 12:44.

Depends on how much damage the current generation does to basic freedom in the meantime, and as stated above, they are still politicians, which means they may still shoot for the votes of overprotective parents and old people, andi n Obama's case, people who won't vote for them regardless.

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Submitted by DarkSaber on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 11:41.

Just because they know how to use a computer doesn't make them any less c**ts. They will still be politicians after all.

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Submitted by Zerodash on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 10:52.

Again, it is totally sickening to see a supposedly "free" country trying to monitor internet traffic.

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Submitted by EQ2Plat on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 09:23.

Something that everybody seems to forget is that you just need to look back at history and you will so that it has all been done before. Look at EverQuest, it is still going strong with the same game play from the past. Does anybody think that it really matters.

John Assam

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DorthLous: Will do, my apologies.02/09/2012 - 4:14pm

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