Any well organised terrorist group or crime ring who have to capacity to actually carry out a planned terrorist attack or commit serious online crime will be able to easily bypass Government restrictions and monitoring systems - just look at how people get passed the great firewall of China and avoid detection. The truth is that these measures will only serve to tackle one thing, and that's the basic civil rights that seperate us from Iran and China. Apart from anything else, this bill is a clear breach of the EU fundamental charter of rights ensuring the right to privacy in communications.
As a democracy we should strongly value our freedoms of movement and thought without constant scrutiny and questioning from a paranoid surveillance state. Although I support Labour, the stop and search laws are a perfect example of how such 'terrorist' powers can be used for other negative means such as racial profiling and infringing on rights to privacy. No good can come out of these laws, and I think it's shocking how the Government dresses up a blatant eradication of our rights as part of an anti-terror initiative. Just remember that some of the worlds worst dictators have used supposed emergency laws to commit the most heinous abuses of civil liberties and human rights ever, so why is this creeping power any better?