UK Lords Pass Digital Economy Bill, Now Look To Rush It Through Commons
from the as-expected dept
As was widely predicted, it looks like the UK Lords have passed the controversial Digital Economy Bill, a piece of legislation written by the entertainment industry against consumer interests, to try to prop up an obsolete business model. Now they're planning to rush it through the Commons with little debate or chance to stop an incredibly dangerous bill -- unless people start making some noise about how this bill is being rushed through, and the lack of any real public consultation or debate.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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What a surprise...
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Representational democracy failed, it's dead and if it weren't for all of the wedge issues everyone would have noticed this several years ago. The president said "I've had to make a lot of unpopular decisions to save our economy" in a speech to the import-export bank (I've never heard of it either..). That's it in a nut shell, we elect monarchies and we have little choice in which one we choose. Theres little difference really, the choice is an illusion.
Divide and Conquer
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BPI & ORG Fight
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/letter-to-the-ft
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Er... do you have any clue what you are talking about...
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Continuing the boycott!
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If not now, then when?
Talking 'bout a Revoluuuutioooon...
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Of course, NZ conveniently just did away with the whole concept of an upper house all together. In theory the governor does most of the same job. in practice they say a few formal lines around election time
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http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dontdisconnectus/
Also the Open Rights Group have one.
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Until they get... what was it? Dinner on a private yacht?
Just typed "Mandelson" and "Yacht" into Google and it seems this is a regular thing.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4926572.ece
Here's one with a great quote...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7690459.stm
"As business secretary I will continue to act with the public interest in mind, as the public has every right to expect."
Yeah. Right. What a piece of shit this guy is.
http://order-order.com/2008/10/22/mandelson-gatecrashed-microsoft-ceos/
http://www.neurope .eu/articles/90308.php
"As usually happens with parties on yachts, as time goes by, further details become revealed, as now in the aside news coverage of Tory leader David Cameron being flown out to chat to Media Oligarch Rupert Murdoch on another yacht in September by Murdoch’s son in law, and then flown to Turkey to attend a birthday Bash with the Murdoch’s, Mandelson, and Deripaska it seems that the world really couldn’t’ get any smaller."
http://www.johannhari.com/2009/11/18/peter-mandelsons-assault-on-science
"British science gave the world Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking. They figured out how we became human and the shape of the universe. Now Peter Mandelson wants to bend that great tradition to serve the yacht-owning overclass he adores. If he succeeds, we may never know the magnitude of our loss."
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making our voices heard
There is also a protest organised for next Wednesday (24th March) in london:
http://debdemo.eventbrite.com/
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I think they know how many people are actually file sharing and are scared for their bottom lines. If 20% of their customers are cut off that would be a major hit to their profitability. But that wont happen because like in other places (sweden, etc) people will switch to VPN, fileLockers, etc. Good luck to the brits on this
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another great line ...
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An idea for our ISPs
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The laws have the potential to make things like YouTube and other platforms that are useful for content creators illegal.
Do you not think that's a problem?
The law has the potential to kick people offline based on false accusations of copyright infringement?
Do you not think that's a problem?
You really amaze me sometimes how little respect you have for basic human dignity and civil rights. For someone who says they're a lawyer, you seem to always side with the biggest corporate interests against individual rights. I wonder why.
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As for your final paragraph, it unfortunately reflects a predisposition to question the motives of anyone who may offer a comment with which you may happen to disagree. I urge you to consider the possiblity that comments may be proferred that are not intended in the slightest to place you or the site in a negative light.
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So you are speaking PURPOSELY from a position of ignorance?
You do realize how ironic that is given that you repeatedly bash me personally for (you claim, often falsely) doing the same.
Stunning.
As for your final paragraph, it unfortunately reflects a predisposition to question the motives of anyone who may offer a comment with which you may happen to disagree.
No, sir. Just you. Your condescending language choices make it obvious who you are, and it's difficult to take you seriously. But since I know your previous statements in favor of big companies and against basic human and civil rights I see no reason not to call you out on them.
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I don't normally use this, but shut the fuck up.
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