Globalisation. Or, who needs to know all this stuff!
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Globalisation. Or, who needs to know all this stuff!
Whilst some folk trouble over in/out and others fancy it's time for a good old shake about. Hot on the heels of 'The Investigatory Powers Act' being passed through Parliament last week, I'm more taken with a story that illustrates our inexorable shuffle, courtesy of a thirst for the world wide web, toward 1984.
Of course if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.
Of course if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.
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Wow. There again a lot of people forget what an authoritarian country it is. Nearly as bad as snooper Britain.Enoch wrote:Whilst some folk trouble over in/out and others fancy it's time for a good old shake about. Hot on the heels of 'The Investigatory Powers Act' being passed through Parliament last week, I'm more taken with a story that illustrates our inexorable shuffle, courtesy of a thirst for the world wide web, toward 1984.
Of course if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.
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BBC World Service have done a story on thsi.. Probably on some iPlayer somewhere.. Think it was that Tech thing they have on at dafgt o'clock in the morning beamed the world over
Anyway, they interviewed a student about it (face blurred and voice distorted) as you'd expect in a leafy suburb of Beijing. Highly worried about it he was, but he couldn;t say anything as you've guessed it. The thought police and the internet police will downgrade his credit worthiness and that of his families. It really is a fvcked up notion and something that is already happening over here. Mortgage lenders checking your statements, asking what the money you took out on the 10th October was for, asking to see families statements, because there was a large transaction from one family member to another etc. checking your facebook posts!
We're not far away from China.
Anyway, they interviewed a student about it (face blurred and voice distorted) as you'd expect in a leafy suburb of Beijing. Highly worried about it he was, but he couldn;t say anything as you've guessed it. The thought police and the internet police will downgrade his credit worthiness and that of his families. It really is a fvcked up notion and something that is already happening over here. Mortgage lenders checking your statements, asking what the money you took out on the 10th October was for, asking to see families statements, because there was a large transaction from one family member to another etc. checking your facebook posts!
We're not far away from China.
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How far away did you move?
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Walkden!!Worthy4England wrote:How far away did you move?
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Chinese seem to have confused Black Mirror for Tommorow's World.
In a world that has decided
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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I don't know about the comparison with China. But it is another case of financial institutions fecking up majorly then passing the problem back down to everyone else. And people blaming everyone b but the source of the problem.boltonboris wrote:BBC World Service have done a story on thsi.. Probably on some iPlayer somewhere.. Think it was that Tech thing they have on at dafgt o'clock in the morning beamed the world over
Anyway, they interviewed a student about it (face blurred and voice distorted) as you'd expect in a leafy suburb of Beijing. Highly worried about it he was, but he couldn;t say anything as you've guessed it. The thought police and the internet police will downgrade his credit worthiness and that of his families. It really is a fvcked up notion and something that is already happening over here. Mortgage lenders checking your statements, asking what the money you took out on the 10th October was for, asking to see families statements, because there was a large transaction from one family member to another etc. checking your facebook posts!
We're not far away from China.
Infuriates me that this stuff goes on now, all because mortgage lenders were previously handing out huge mortgages to anyone who could sign on the dotted line. And WE bailed most of them out too.
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I can understand the affordability test, based on fixed DD's, childcare etc, but the personal intrusion was offensive and borderline illegal (probably not, but sure feels like it).BWFC_Insane wrote:I don't know about the comparison with China. But it is another case of financial institutions fecking up majorly then passing the problem back down to everyone else. And people blaming everyone b but the source of the problem.boltonboris wrote:BBC World Service have done a story on thsi.. Probably on some iPlayer somewhere.. Think it was that Tech thing they have on at dafgt o'clock in the morning beamed the world over
Anyway, they interviewed a student about it (face blurred and voice distorted) as you'd expect in a leafy suburb of Beijing. Highly worried about it he was, but he couldn;t say anything as you've guessed it. The thought police and the internet police will downgrade his credit worthiness and that of his families. It really is a fvcked up notion and something that is already happening over here. Mortgage lenders checking your statements, asking what the money you took out on the 10th October was for, asking to see families statements, because there was a large transaction from one family member to another etc. checking your facebook posts!
We're not far away from China.
Infuriates me that this stuff goes on now, all because mortgage lenders were previously handing out huge mortgages to anyone who could sign on the dotted line. And WE bailed most of them out too.
They even do stress tests now, to see if you can still handle the mortgage repayments if their interest rates go above 11%!!! Eleven fvckin percent.
There is being prudent and then there's being a bunch of absolute dicks
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I can remember rates around 15%. With May and Boris in charge I don't think it unreasonable to prepare for the worst!
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They won't be after the next Gen-Elec you'd imagine!
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I've given up predicting elections and referenda!
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Really!Prufrock wrote:Chinese seem to have confused Black Mirror for Tommorow's World.
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2016 was not my greatest prognostication year either.Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:I've given up predicting elections and referenda!
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