Comments on: “Web 2.0, or just Stasi?” http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/10/12/web-20-or-just-stasi/ Challenging the Zeitgeist Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:11:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Abandoned babies » Why Dont You Blog? http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/10/12/web-20-or-just-stasi/#comment-8761 Abandoned babies » Why Dont You Blog? Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:41:00 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/10/12/web-20-or-just-stasi/#comment-8761 [...] ID nets - where access to services depends on ID, as discussed last week - mean that more and more people live in an invisible underclass in the UK. The health impacts [...] [...] ID nets - where access to services depends on ID, as discussed last week - mean that more and more people live in an invisible underclass in the UK. The health impacts [...]

]]> By: TW http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/10/12/web-20-or-just-stasi/#comment-8716 TW Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:01:23 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2007/10/12/web-20-or-just-stasi/#comment-8716 A rather shocking bit of doublespeak opens the "Vision" part of the Treasury PDF: <blockquote>Citizens’ time is not free, yet often the way public services are delivered assumes it to be so. The aim of this Service Transformation Agreement (STA) is to change public services so they more often meet the needs of people and businesses, rather than the needs of government, and by doing so reduce the frustration and stress of accessing them. The result will be services that are better for the customer, better for front line staff and better for the taxpayer.</blockquote> After that collection of word salad it is hard to read a single sentence more. I love the way they open it by talking about "Citizens" and trying to make it look like it is being done to benefit the public. B*st*rds. A rather shocking bit of doublespeak opens the “Vision” part of the Treasury PDF:

Citizens’ time is not free, yet often the way public services are delivered assumes
it to be so. The aim of this Service Transformation Agreement (STA) is to change public
services so they more often meet the needs of people and businesses, rather than the
needs of government, and by doing so reduce the frustration and stress of accessing
them. The result will be services that are better for the customer, better for front line
staff and better for the taxpayer.

After that collection of word salad it is hard to read a single sentence more.

I love the way they open it by talking about “Citizens” and trying to make it look like it is being done to benefit the public.

B*st*rds.

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