Somebody 's trying to push through some nasty clauses in a relatively innocuous - seeming EU Telecoms bill . Malcolm Harbour 's amendment allowing commercial organisations to conduct surveillance on users of ISPs , i.e. nearly everyone , and apply sanctions to them without recourse to due legal process is particularly objectionable to me .

Question: What might the companies think they can get away with this ?
Answer: They think it 's what customers wantA lot of people do n't read the small printThey see nothing morally wrong with itThey think people are too stupid to understand it