“Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder, has sharply criticised the government’s so-called ‘snooper’s charter’, which will track the internet, text and email use of all British citizens, as ‘technologically incompetent’. Wales said that Wikipedia would move to encrypt all its connections with Britain if UK internet companies, such as Vodafone and Virgin Media, were mandated by the government to keep track of every single page accessed by UK citizens.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/05/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-blasts-uk-internet-snooping/
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