Great idea for 21st century Soviet style spying on citizens.

[Jon39]

Employing thousands to do spying is so expensive.
Could this way work better in the 21st century ?

Nationalise a telecoms provider, let's call it say Openreach, then give free broadband to every citizen.
It would become the only broadband provider, because the existing companies could not compete with free prices.

The London state Politburo can then monitor every piece of traffic on the entire network.

Edited by Jon39 on Wednesday 11th December 20:28

[Jon39]

Jasandjules said:

Even better, get people to buy a product that they can speak to and it gives information. This device can be connected to the internet and will be constantly listening... People pay for their own spying. Magic.

I spot a weakness with your plan comrade.

Need to make the nationalised free broadband the only one available, so then every citizen can be monitored by the state. Emails, web browsing, chat, the lot.