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A while back, in this post, I complained about a proposed law that was going to make it illegal not to report any crime witnessed.
It was a horrible idea as it would have brought Sweden to a DDR/Soviet-like society where you would have snitches that report ordinary citizens for rudimentary issues, while hardened criminals would go free as witnesses would not step forward if they had not reported the crime after seeing it.
Well, now it seems that the surveillance loving United Kingdom has started recruiting ordinary citizens to snoop on eachother and report issues like litter louts, dog foulers and even people who fail to sort out their rubbish properly.
Yeah. For real.
Slashdot story here, and the full story at ThisIsLondon.co.uk.
