Jeremy Hunt launches the Technology Manifesto

[shanepaulcoward]

Research 'Hitachi RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip'. They are already in your passports, pets, livestock, shipments, trackers etc. . . They are planning to propose that they are implanted into the population. These chips will be linked to every aspect of your lives, from health care records to purchases and wages. The possibilities are endless, as is the potential for abuse of this system and enslavement of the population. If you oppose the system - they'll just switch yours off.

[shanepaulcoward]

Pay with cash. Don't trust technology. They are using it to enslave us.

[jgilb100]

i can't believe what i heard i laughed when i herd a TORY politician tried to IMPROVE our broadband

people of the uk the TORIES are the reason we have slow broadband, back in the late 70's early 80's BT were about to switch to fibre optic infrastructure but the TORIES vetoed the idea. it's the Tories fault that we ever had to use dial-up, it's the Tories fault we have ever had to use ADSL and it's the Tories fault that we are behind South Korea and not ahead of them in terms of broadband

[greatwhitepoet]

Gardeners know a late frost can kill off early growth. It is the same in the first days of an economic upturn.Tories claim the proposed Labour rises in N I contributions will cost upwards of 57,000 jobs? They made similar claims about the minimum wage,they were wrong then and wrong now. Tory alternative is to raise VAT much higher than Labour might do it will serve to clobber the low paid.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in memory as the wish to forget it! we ain't forgotten the Tories

[dotben]

Jeremy talks about the opportunities Britain has because of the Internet, and especially it's ability to create amazing content -- all true.

But Jeremy has also gone on record as saying he wants to reduce the size of the BBC, 'tear up it's charter' and reduce it's funding. Given that the BBC is probably the leading creator of online British content, this would appear to be at odds with Jeremy's message here.

[ProsperityGlobal]

David Cameron, have you heard about the Venus Project?.

[imanglo]

VOTE LABOUR

[bobthegirl90]

Hello Jeremy cunt.

[samtheman180]

@justtakeiteasy 1 Why are you being racist? 2 Who mentioned Hitler? 3 I wasn't born during Great Britain and Ireland's slave trade and if i were chances are i would have been a slave too. 4 Who was the first country in the world to make slavery illegal? thats right England and guess what else the second country was Scotland That makes Great Britain. Britain even fought wars to stop it after.

[autofreak7]

@justtakeiteasy No! That would be considered illegal!

[closertofiftythanyew]

Don't knock the BNP, they have certainly got a message that we should not at all dismiss. They are the decendents of Brit whitemen that the Thatch sent into the wilderness due to her shop-cornered mentality of approach to our politics, like a flushed early-post menstral woman, you could say, that the Tory Party 'supporters' could take advantage of, and move our wealth offshore from under our noses.

[closertofiftythanyew]

Yes, BNP have got a truer message than any political party today. And notice it tends to be more North of England, and if you do not know what that means, you are IDIOTS, you southern shites! But I will be voting Labour.

[samtheman180]

@justtakeiteasy funny to hear something so aggressive coming from a Youtuber called justtakeiteasy lol.

[skeletorphd]

1. "We are the best at internet content" means we still do the donkey work for foreign companies.

2. The government said faster broadband, what they are actually doing is infringeing our privacy.

The Digital Economy Bill just sets the framework for cutting off SUSPECTED illegal file sharers and monitoring all of our internet usage.

[scronic666]

@skeletorphd faster broadband i can barely get 5mb where i live!

[kovacsgaga]

Huh An other stolen topic from the left.

Technological "conservatives"? Gay "conservatives"? Green "conservatives"?

This party is gone joke.

[skeletorphd]

Where has this been stolen from?

I hope you don't mean the Digital Economy Bill because I would take a read of it first.

Everything about more infringment of our privacy and getting ISP's to cut us off if they SUSPECT us of illegal file sharing.

NOTHING in it about speeding up broadband.

[autofreak7]

@kovacsgaga If there's one party that is suspected of stealing ideas from others because they are too incompetent to find some of their own, it must be Labour

[closertofiftythanyew]

Nice early close up of a bloke in a wheelchair!

Pathetic, use and abuse the disabled for your own ends. Like all these torrie supporters that run charities because they failed O level/GCSE Maths and Physics in school. but know how to move their jaw to feather their thick beds!

[tonythekingfisher]

Want to know what the Conservative party knows about your local state schools? Nothing, because they nearly all send their kids to private schools!

That's partly why, after a lifetime of voting Conservative, I'm going to the Lib Dems.

[samtheman180]

Vote BNP! British jobs for British workers

[autofreak7]

@samtheman180 A vote for BNP is basically a vote for Labour, because it will cause a hung parliament and then we are stuck with Gordon for a few more years.

[samtheman180]

@samtheman180 There just scare tactics so the three main parties can alwys stay at the top

[20kamonth]

free ps3

free stuff yeah (dot) com

[smilingvirus]

whats the ecological footprint of all that tech you nefarious ninny?

[closertofiftythanyew]

Wish the Thatch and friends felt the same of Britons technological capabilities in the 1970 to 1997 area of Britonical historical window of things!

Chasing the bathwater, Dave?

[jason7334]

how about launching the " familys manifesto "

instead of this shit !

[Altxandr]

Seen impresses, it is possible to speak, have brilliant projects beautifully. But to this good organizers are necessary to realize all projects and plans of modernization of economy...

[robh2360]

If you are serious about enabling tech entrepreneurship - mandate a percentage of govt IT spend on small start-ups. The UK govt is *dreadful* at this and only goes to the "big players". The whole process excludes small companies. The US govt are really supportive of young tech. I started a tech company in 97, sold it in 03 and didn't sell £1 of product to HMG. Sold plenty to UK private sector and the US govt mind.

[Hellothasauras]

Yeh, faster for Youtube, play games better, sounds awesome!!

[wennetvideo]

I hope this isn't spin. It sounds fantastic. This country is a service industry, so we have to use the internet to sell ourselves. We have the best content in the world, its just a shame we are being held to ransom by the copper cabal. We need fibre to the home, and we need it NOW. If the conservatives can see this we are half way to getting IT because the other parties are conned by the spin of the telcos and ofcom. A victorian phone network can not deliver Next Generation Access. JfDI FTTH

[bloggerheads]

"We are the only party with a technology manifesto"... brags the MP who 'blogs' without an archive.

Hunt appears to have a blind spot for (or no respect for) the community that uses Teh Internets.

In fact, this Tech Manifesto reads like a transport manifesto promising LOTS OF BIG ROADS, while failing to mention safety, plates or seatbelts.

(e.g. there's no mention of anything to do with the two major issues of online harassment and the current libel laws that greatly disadvantage local ISPs)

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads I'm sorry, can you point me in the direction of the RFC that details the technical specifications and requirements that enable something to be called a blog? Oh wait, what am I saying! There isn't one! Perhaps you should run off and get one written and submit it as draft then go through the process of getting it to the RFC editor. Let Teh Internets community you apparently know so much about decide.

[bloggerheads]

If you're not willing to stand by what you've published, you're not much of a blogger. If you discard entire conversations that guests entrust you you, you're not much of a blogger.

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads I repeat, if you believe there should be rules and regulations both technical and content based then go an write an RFC and submit it. That's how this community and network works.

[bloggerheads]

@dthinks Nobody said anything about rules/regulations regarding Hunt's archive. That's your straw man that you keep bringing to these discussions.

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads Actually, you put the word blog in quote with the clear implication that the lack of the archive meant that it could only be called a blog with certain qualification. So not a straw man although ironic that the comment you removed contained an implied ad hominen, is that why you deleted it?

[bloggerheads]

and any reference to rules and regulations would be...? In my opinion, it is no blog and he's no blogger if he's going to throw old posts and conversations away as if they mean nothing. What's your opinion?

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads errr they're websites with guestbook scripts its all so 1997.

[bloggerheads]

Would you like a *retraction* stating it was YouTube messing up threads, not you? You first. Properly this time, please.

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads As to the manifesto, it only reads as you suggest if you read the first two paragraphs of page 7 over and over again and ignore the other nine pages. Suggesting there s nothing in it other than extending fibre networks says more about your own bias and prejudice than anything else Tim.

[bloggerheads]

OK, so point me to the parts where it addresses the poor policing budget for this exploding virtual community. There is close to zero expertise in every police force outside of London, and no budget to address this problem. Hell, until late last year, my local police force didn't even have a finalised policy on it.

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads Policing budget? That'll be the Home Office not DCMS.

[bloggerheads]

All this talk of the economy in this technology manifesto. Surely that's an issue for that wannabe Osborne. Puh-lease. The lead on technology policy re: policing should come from the technology minister, who (ideally) should have some expertise not only in the technology but how people are using it.

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads In relation to the concerns about what is not in there, that will be because harassment is something the Home Office deals with and technology itself will not stop it; likewise libel laws are not something that technology itself can change and would come under the remit of changes in media. Trying to conflate those two separate things into a policy document about sftware development, data publishing, IT procurement and building networks is nonsense.

[bloggerheads]

Policing expertise in technology and recognition that a virtual community has sprung up around it is required to address the problem. And where's a single mention of the messed-up libel issues that put every single one of our local ISPs at a legal/economic disadvantage. It's past Page 7, is it?

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads As stated, libel laws will not be solved by technology so they have no place in a technology manifesto. You are conflating remits.

[bloggerheads]

Reform of those laws requires an understanding of that technology and how people are using it and how outdated laws are impacting on it. The lead should come from the minister for tech, but to be frank with you, I don't think Hunt's up to the job judging by his poor understanding of how others interact via this technology. And to be even franker, I doubt he cares given his shonky moral compass.

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads Regarding the law you're missing the point as previously stated once already. Libel is a media issue not a technology issue, that's why it's not in a policy document about things like software development strategies, procurement, fibre networks etc, because, guess what, it doesn't matter to those things.

[bloggerheads]

Rubbish. The current state of affairs puts local ISPs at a significant disavantage legally and economically, even if we play your game of pretedning it's only about machines all of a sudden. Clearly a matter for Hunt to take the lead on if he wants this job. I don't think he's up to the job, myself. If he were, he'd be able to defend/address the point himself instead of relying on your rabid rebuttal.

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads Sorry, but you keep referring to "local ISPs" are you referring to IP connectivity in terms of actual access providers or do you mean someone that has a colo provided by a errr an upstream IP conectiovity access provider? I;m not getting this reference to "local" providers - unless you;re talking about Hull which has its own little monopoly in respect of Kingston Coms.

[bloggerheads]

Hendren, If you're going to pretend that you don't know how UK libel law disadvantages UK-based ISPs, then we're done here. I've explained my position quite clearly. You've done some neat acrobatics. That is all.

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads Ireland - I'm not pretending anything, I just want you to clarify what you mean by local ISP because I think what you're actually talking about more than anything else is colo providers who have Teir 1 upstream connectivity from dinstinctly non-local and often global ISPs.

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads Re: "he'd be able to defend/address the point himself instead of relying on your rabid rebuttal."

Relying on me? Now you;re stretching Tim. You'll be suggesting next that I have a hotline to CCHQ and am taking orders. This isn't about Hunt, this about pointing out that your complaints are misplaced and belong within different portfolio areas.

[bloggerheads]

No I won't. I'll instead be saying that a man who claims to believe in social media and claims that social media makes him more accountable should be here under his own damn video answering for himself in comments instead of allowing other (mostly misleading) comments to stand on his behalf.

[dthinks]

@bloggerheads So now the comments under a video are all made on behalf of the person in the video?

[minteko]

Yay superfast broadband! So we can watch U tube vids at twice the speed.

[aweiss]

excellent!