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NEWS > TECHNOLOGY > CRIMINALS AND BULLIES OFF THE WEB IN U.K. LEAVING PRETTY MUCH NO ONE
CRIMINALS AND BULLIES OFF THE WEB IN U.K. LEAVING PRETTY MUCH NO ONE
November 26 2011
London, U.K. – Few will debate the power and the incredible influence of the web to not only influence but actually help reshape society and culture. Over the last decade in particular the web has grown from a niche medium accessible by only a handful of people to one of the most dominant forms of communication and transmission that has ever been created, and realistically it is still in its infancy.
As the world becomes more and more connected so too will the web, expanding its influence over every continent, over every country, and eventually into every home on the planet. Because it is so powerful, the web has also brought with it negatives. Inevitably criminals and bad guys of all sorts are going to be as drawn to large crowds as ordinary people and the web has been no different, something lawmakers in the U.K. are looking to change.
Utilizing so-called ‘cyber sanctions’ police in that country have started to crackdown on trouble makers on the web, restricting access for both criminals and cyber bullies. While the laws have only been used a handful of times, the success in those cases has prompted the government to push forward on more aggressive use of the laws, an effort some fear will essentially push just about everyone on the internet off it and knock the country back by a few decades.
“The Ministry of Justice and the Home Office will consider and scope the development of a new way of enforcing these orders, using ‘cyber-tags’ which are triggered by the offender breaching the conditions that have been put on their internet use, and which will automatically inform the police or probation service,” said a spokesperson for the company behind the technology.
The service was used successfully on the recent attacks by Anonymous and LulzSec earlier this year, a very small portion of the overall bully quotient on the web.
The hope is to expand the service to a wider group of cyber criminals and all sorts of people who do mean things on through the web.
“This is a deep concern for all of us, really in terms of how far it goes. While we certainly don’t appreciate the type of aggressive tactics of some of these groups we do feel that caution must be exercised when using these techniques against more and more people for fear of simply collapsing the web entirely,” said a spokesperson for a large U.K. ISP. “If you remove too many people from the web many companies will simply not be able to afford to provide the service, or have to price it out of the range of many people, which would essentially make it inaccessible to the people of the United Kingdom.”
A little over 50 million people currently use the internet in U.K., primarily for email, banking, web surfing, and being jerks. 
“By removing these types of people we would essentially gut the heart of the web entirely and that could result in catastrophic losses for ISPs. We are very concerned that police forces could be too aggressive with their tactics and that is something we desperately want to avoid,” continued the spokesperson. “This is our business and removing everyone who has done illicit things on the web, well we would be knocked back to 1995 again and no one wants that. Well, perhaps Oasis but no one else.”
There is no evidence that any members of Oasis, past or present, are involved with pressing the legislation.
Martin Philton, Technology Correspondent
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