When will they ever learn?

The UK government has announced plans to monitor social networking sites. This demonstrates all the faults of government. It is obviously intrusive on personal liberty and freedom. Another is a need to create new and more inventive ways to extend control and monitoring for “security reasons”. In addition, control and regulation seem to be the government’s solutions to any type of chaotic or unplanned system. All this not only undermines political freedom but also makes a fundamental economic error. Society cannot be improved and perfected by the collection of ever more information and the government’s strategies of centralised control are therefore likely to be ineffective at achieving their objectives.