The BBC will soon be providing a set of tools for activists in their quests to be heard and seen on issues in the UK, according to Wired News. The idea is a that activist groups can acess tools they need for their campaigns from a BBC-sponsored website, to be called iCan.

BBC reporters will be able to easily find the activists and find out what is going on.

Combine this with Cisco’s embedded eavesdropping tools and you have a law enforcement surveillance picnic with an activist honeypot.

New democracy? I don’t think so.