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Let's kill the Digital Economy Bill
THE PEOPLE have the chance to rise up and crush the Digital Economy Bill before the UK Government grovels before the entertainment cartels.
Thanks to people power society 38 Degrees and the Open Rights Group, Internet users who object to the threat of disconnection can write to their MPs and prevent the Government from rushing the bill through.
The people will also join the companies like BT, TalkTalk, Google, Yahoo and Ebay in opposing the bill, which is readily supported by music companies and has already been hustled through the House of Lords.
There are several major issues that campaigners have with the bill, such as clause 17, which would allow ministers to muck around with copyright law at their whim in the future and ramp up even more severe penalties against Internet users who are merely suspected of having infringed copyrights.
The bill would also allow ISPs to punish subscribers without the need for a court injunction, with their connections suffering from being "cancelled, capped, bottlenecked, shaped or simply slapped with a discretionary fine" as another Inquirer writer nicely put it.
It does look like the bill won't really be examined as closely as it should be due to the rush towards the election in May. But through Twitter and other social networks it already seems clear that people are definitely not keen on this bill and what it could mean for them.
But will the government, or indeed the opposition parties listen to the people through these channels, as they so often claim they do? Would people vote for or against a certain party on the basis of one policy? It wouldn't be that much of a stretch to think that they might.
Let us know what you think about the Digital Economy Bill by voting in our poll. µ
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In the ISP contract you agree to which enables you to get an internet acccount it tells you that the ISP can disconnect you at their discretion when you go against their rules of connection...they do not need to take you to court to disconnect you, they do not need to warn you three times...
just clearing this up... it is not the govt that made those rules they have been in place for years in internet provider contracts.
I agree that it was stupid to arrest the guy who tweeted about the bomb. You're right, that was dumb. However, it's ridiculous to compare that to someone saying that they want to stake someone else with a sharpened frozen garlic baguette.
That's where this humour thing comes into it - it was obvious that the guys commenting on this article were joking, but there was the possibility (however slight), that the twitter guy wasn't. If you didn't get that it was a joke, then yeah, you are the one without a sense of humour.
Hypocrits, it has nothing to do with a sense of humor. If the British sense of humor is relevent, they wouldn't have arrested that guy in the first place.
A Brit is arrested by Brits for a tweet, and 'I' am the one without a sense of humor?
Mike, it's pretty well an accepted fact here in the UK that Peter Mandelson is possibly a vampire. I don't think any sane person would have a problem with a little vampire staking, do you?
By the way, this is that strange British thing known as a "sense of humour". Look it up, it's a useful phrase.
So, a guy twitters that he'll blow up an airport in a week if his flight isn't straightened out, and he is arrested and looses his job and people say "good, he deserves it for making threats like that." Even if it was just a tasteless joke.
But when multiple people say they will single out and kill a particular person, it's ok.
You Brits deserve this bill, maybe the whole country should be cencored by the Big Brother that was concieved there.
This might have affected my voting if any of the major parties were in favour of individual freedom, not only when pontificating to the electorate but also when rich foreign corporations come calling.
As if Mandleson is the only one, as good as all politicians are weasels and fungi that once attached will make stuff unpalatable.
This bill is stupid, it’s just another government idea that they are trying to steamroller through, and please everyone write to your local MP.
And death to Mandleson etc etc, he’s such a c**t.
Splatterhouse, don't thaw it out, sharpen it!
i have some silverware we can melt down to make bullets out of and i'm sure i have a garlic baguette in the freezer we can thaw out
Can't we rise up and kill Mandleson? I know it might be tricky, but surely a stake through the heart or holy water with do it?