GAK-killing amendments?

[Caspar Bowden]

> This is the first 'hard' evidence I have seen that HO were thinking
> along those lines (and they do not seem to be so thinking
> currently). I
> would hope that any ISP tempted by such blandishments would
> refuse them
> absolutely. I am still of the opinion that it would be
> unlawful for any ISP to permit such a practice.

It really is important to remember that government is not indivisible, and
HO are not only (or even primary) department that controlled content of this
Bill. Departments tend to believe their own and each other's propaganda -
repeat often enough that a bill merely "updates and modernises existing
powers", and produce a bill with lacunae so obscure that no single member of
the Bill team understands the lot, and you can bet that they understand it
would be double-minus bad trouble-think to wonder why Bloggs' section turned
out as it did.