Never mind the child porn, stop the music pirates?
Six of the UK’s biggest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have agreed a plan with the music industry to tackle piracy online. The deal, negotiated by the government—after it blackmailed all ISPs that if they didn’t act, it would, to legislate—will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent to those suspected of illegally sharing music. For the music industry, however, this does not go far enough—they want all access to the Internet cut off for people who ignore repeated warnings, something the ISPs say they are not prepared to do.
tags: 9/11, Big Brother, civil liberties, crime, economy, hypocrisy, Internet Service Providers, July 7, lies, music industry, music piracy, state control, terroristsShock resignation is a wake-up call to the British people
David Davis’ resignation from his job as MP and Shadow Home Secretary yesterday, forcing a by-election in which he will stand again in protest over the issue of the 42 day detention of suspected terrorists, surprised everyone.
In two notoriously opportunistic and hard-nosed professions, politics and the media, in both of which personal convictions in the 21st Century are too often limited to expressing passionately-held beliefs over which restaurant serves the best caviare, it’s no wonder that we’ve since seen a plethora of career politicians on all sides, and political commentators, utterly incapable of understanding why Davis did what he did.
tags: 42 days, anti-terrorism, Big Brother, civil liberties, Conservatives, conviction, courage, David Davis, Labour, oppression, politics, state control, Tories
