Digital Economy Bill

[WebDude]

A group is trying to stop the "on a nod" passage of the Digital Economy Bill into law in the dying days of this Government.

If you feel that a Bill should receive proper scrutiny, please Phone your MP TODAY.

The debate is due to start this afternoon - there's to be a 'live blog' on the ITPro website.

Here are a few links to check:

BBC news

NewsNow links to many web articles online today and in last 2 weeks.

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Obviously one should get a balanced view but with the example of how laws can be wrongly used (eg anti-terrorism legislation against Icelandic banks) then the possibility of blocking sites like Wikileaks becomes much easier. Last year Wikileaks was covering online censorship and listed sites blocked in Denmark. In Australia, the Wikileaks site was put on the blocked list and anyone linking to it could be fined $11,000 a day.

So much for "freedom of speech". Anyway, the LibDems have voiced concern about the Digital Economy Bill (I am not a member, nor do I vote for anyone, but saw that on a different website) but without other MPs also voting against the Bill until it can have proper examination, we may go down a route of censorship like some other countries.

TalkTalk are saying something completely pointless and are just jumping on this to get some free publicity and hopefully a few more ill-informed customers.

Right now they're not going to get any disconnection orders so making statements that they're going to refuse them is totally empty and about as brave and inspiring as me saying that I'll stand up to the Easter Bunny.

It's also worth noting that their bold promises only stand until "after the election" at which point they're committed to absolutely nothing.

The Digital Economy is a sickening display of the failures of our political system. It's nice to see that TalkTalk won't allow that to get in the way of a bit of opportunistic, empty and misleading self promotion.