NOTHING to do with Canonical at all. Yay for the let's all hate Canonical bandwagon.

Absolutely. You just made my point for me. The problem shall be now a lot of the media will now present this as a milestone to easing public anger over what the public knows. By now the NSA and GCHQ will know the files Snowden has through investigation (police greeting David Miranda with Terrorism laws at Heathrow to make copies of his HDD must have helped) so here comes the game of cat and mouse; possibly until Congress freaks out.

It's the comedy that doesn't stop giving!

Most schools do this and workplaces, my university in the UK included does as well (hoping that banking sites are whitelisted is probably wishful thinking). I'd be very surprised if you are actually able to get your school to change it's practices in the long run.

Ensuring stability with their own certified hardware to looking at the whole entire Linux ecosystem is like comparing a mouse to an elephant.

Haha, there is certainly no empire left, and while I'd like to put the last nail in the coffin with independence, the point still stands.

Find a global map where the UK isn't enlarged. Land mass doesn't translate to economic power and in turn power in the world.

The whole of the UK is enlarged on almost every map and thus is not in scale with the rest of Europe. My main point though is, who the hell cares?

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."

Not cool BBC, not cool.

All fun and games till your forced to hand over the SSL key and then all that encryption is pointless.

Thank you for this! Was looking for a reference to it.

In the store. Google made some changes to Webkit a while back to improve Adblock, before Adblock used to still have to download the ads, then block them. Some changes Google made allowed the ads to be blocked before the ads were fetched.

No. It's currently providing free health care to everyone who is within the NHS's remits. The quality of care however is being degraded, for ideological reasons. That is the issue. I'm going to make the assumption, you're not a UK resident (well frankly it's obvious). An ageing population is a minor factor, nothing more. The simple fact is funding has been reduced, and is nowhere near in line with the rate of inflation. Therefore, more is being expected with less capital. Which has created a massive strain on the system. The political will for a proper, well resourced, nationalised health service no longer exists unfortunately.

I challenge you to find a source for that, I dare you. No, wait, I double dare you! Ironically, immigrants subsides benefits for the rest of the rest of the UK. http://niesr.ac.uk/blog/migrants-benefits-and-public-services-what-does-new-research-evidence-tell-us

The NHS is currently underfunded, just now the government in charge would love to abolish the NHS purely for ideological reasons. Since the global recession, politics in the UK has been fought over the issues of, public spending cuts, cost of living, the welfare state, immigration; the NHS has been shunned to the side and because of this has allowed funding to minimized. A (phony) promise was made by the government back in 2009 to protect NHS spending, an increase in spending was in fact claimed but the truth is polarising.

It's privatisation in the back door, under fund it, make it under perform, all of a sudden privatisation becomes an easy argument to make.

Google just need the data which users give away when using Android. All those searches, GPS data, emails, whatever else users are subconsciously giving away so Google can turn every user in to a product to sell to advertisers. As mobile becomes more and more prominent, Google is going to have to have rely more on Android to bring in revenue. Any plans which could negatively effect their market share is completely out of the question.

One day Android will lose its market share and it'll be the first sign in the fall of Google ad business.