Will Swedish parliament members take an important step towards a less civilized society tomorrow? Some of their party colleagues are blogging frequently today to try to set their minds. That they can take on a personal decision, just as Camilla Lindberg did last autumn. I read the blog of Henrik Oscarsson and he made a historical comparison. In the post WW2, the "cold war", our Swedish politicians became amazed of the possibility to tap ordinary people's telephone conversations. There were some new frenzy technology that made this easier and there were this threat (real or not) from the Soviet Union those days. The politicians couldn't keep their fingers off and the whole systematic, random tapping went off. Large integrity interference were being made. They were not able to control the security police force or the prosecutors at that time.
What is different of today is that we now do not have any threat being so direct and well established, No politician can formulate this in a clear and sensual way! I haven't seen one, nor have other political bloggers. In an debate article on Swedish Television home page, Mathias Sundin is making some enlightening comparisons. Imagine that the Swedish government want to document your letters sent to others, making matrices of your letter friends including frequency. They will then open the letter and scan it and hold a copy if they will detect some irregularities in your mailing patterns. That may happen today in North Corea, but Sweden? This is exactly what will happen with your e-mailing, telephone conversation, chatting, SMS and other electronic communication. How scared can one become?
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