I wouldn’t normally support national newspapers’ interests but consider the following: The ‘powerful few’ have a ‘need’ to control everything.

To ensure this, all transference of information is required to be done electronically/digitally but to ensure success, they need to eradicate free-thinking untraceable methods, like newspapers, books and physical cash, ie coins and notes.

Hence the current attempted obliteration of newspapers in favour of Internet versions, by haranguing newspaper owners, so that what you actually view is more tightly controlled and edited and the obsolescence of cash, in favour of debit and credit cards, allows recording of all your expenditure.

Books will be completely replaced by iPad-type devices – again traceable.

Then, all transactions – including all that we have seen, read and what we have spent and bought — will be recorded in a similar fashion to the way all of what we access on the Internet is recorded.

Digital TV was sold to us as superior quality than analogue but this was untrue. The advantage is only with the supplier, because of the interaction ability.

What you used to view on TV and record on your VCR/DVD recorder were known only to you.

Now you record on the broadcaster’s own digital space and this is automatically recorded by the company for use by the ‘powers-that-be’.

Already some official sites can only be accessed via the Internet, so – once total Internet-user capability is achieved – there will be nowhere to hide.

Try legislating against that lot. Don’t say you haven’t been warned.

MICK HEAVEY, Oxford Road, Old Marston, Oxford