Well, we're fortunate the blackbox idea got canned, but it's only a matter of time before that rears it's head imo. The North Korea reference in the OP made me chuckle. The current government has been fairly disasterous in terms of restrictions on freedoms, you'd be hard pressed to name a country that micro-manages it's population to such a degree. We really could do with some random party in power to shake things up and get real, but it'll never happen, conservatives are bound to get in at the next election and uphold the current policies.