The international intelligence community already monitors communications traffic - phones, faxes, emails, internet. It's routine, and happens all around the world.

So long as only the guilty are punished and no-one else is able to use the info for any purpose whatsoever, then I don't have that much of a problem.

However, this new proposed legislation appears to be going one step further - monitoring the interests of people, rather than targetting people who're actively attempting or consipring to do something illegal. This kind of monitoring could severely reduce people's freedom to hold and manifest an opinion or religious belief - if they're going to be targetted simply for visiting a website relating to some topical issue. It's one step below actively censoring major outlets for 'evil' religions and foreign news sources.

I'm all in favour of government intelligence agencies monitoring info in order to prevent genuine harm; but using those same techniques to single out people who merely have particular interests is going too far.