Calling all boardies in the United Kingdom (digital economy bill)

[coolbeans]

Looks like the digital economy bill is sneaking in under the radar, can anyone in the uk with some free time follow the link and drop an email to their local mp urging for a bit of debate over the matter.

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/extremeinternetl

The link has a standard email you can add your details to .


For a bit of information on the bill
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200910/ldbills/001/10001.i-ii.html
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Bill

It proposes some scary things the main one being, it hands pretty much unlimted control of your internet access over to Darth mandelson, who can call upon your ISP to cut you off with very little in the way of evidence that you have infringed copyright.

 

[DarkAudit]

Or everyone with internet access could just move to Spain and destroy the UK tax base. :smug:

 

[Denbrought]

:smug:

 

[@Li3n]

Or you could let them pass it and sacrifice yourselves for the greater good, until such time as it becomes clear what a bad, unworkable idea it was and other countries don't bother with such stupidity... someone has to take the bullet.

 

[coolbeans]

Or everyone with internet access could just move to Spain and destroy the UK tax base. :smug:

I'd love to, but Im an air traffic controller and spains busy lynching their ATCO's

 

[twitchmoss]

mandelson can go fuck himself in the ear with a rusty fork. The slimy ****s recent hardline stance on piracy only happened after a completely un-related holiday meeting paid for by David Geffen. I've already sent a letter to my MP, though i get the feeling its not going to help much.

 

[coolbeans]

Wow

I got a personal written reply from my MP, democracy at work, and the result is...........very little

Nice to get the reply though

 

[Iaculus]

Or you could let them pass it and sacrifice yourselves for the greater good, until such time as it becomes clear what a bad, unworkable idea it was and other countries don't bother with such stupidity... someone has to take the bullet.

Unfortunately, given New Labour's prior record, something being self-evidently a bad, unworkable idea is not sufficient grounds for them to stop doing it.

 

[David]

Or you could, y'know, stop pirating stuff. Just a thought. :smug:

(I'm joking)

 

[twitchmoss]

well fuck. it got pushed through in a late night wash-out session. one week before parliament is dissolved in the run up to the election, no real formal debate on what is probably going to have a major impact on the future of the internet in the UK. MPs voted 189 to 47. so out of 647 Mps...

189 voted yes.
47 no.
412 didn't even turn up.


the worst part?
forty MPs bothered to show up for the second reading. FORTY. thanks a fucking lot guys.