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"en.20121211.27.2-146-000"2
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"Mr President, in the 1980s, when I was studying the digital world, one of the things that I found interesting was that an American academic proposed at one stage that maybe one should drop lots of IBM computers into the Soviet Union and encourage people to communicate with each other as a way of bringing about freedom. At the time he was laughed out of hand, but in some ways this academic was probably quite prophetic. In fact one of the factors that people often cited in the fall of regimes in those days was that people looked at the TV, saw that those on the other side of the Iron Curtain enjoyed a higher standard of wealth and started to question the legitimacy of their own regimes.
We saw this expressed in a more modern way with the role that Facebook and Twitter played in the Arab Spring and the uprising of those local communities. But, while we are right to want to promote digital freedom outside the EU, we should look closer at home. We should look at some of the things that our own governments and the EU are doing. Let us look at the programme looking to collect communications data of citizens. Let us look at the UK’s Intercept Programme which is going to collect all the data of UK citizens, at first in a central database, but now in its new form in a distributed database. We have to look close to home to make sure before we preach about digital freedom worldwide."@en1
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