On Thursday, 28 June 2012 at 18:30, Philippe Beaudette wrote: There's nothing wrong with the mission of defending the Internet. But… holy moley, the NAME! The best-known "defence league" these days is the English Defence League (EDL), which Wikipedia describes as "a far-right street protest movement which opposes what it considers to be the spread of Islamism, Sharia law and Islamic extremism in the United Kingdom". As the Wikipedia article describes, they have been associated with acts of violence and anti-social behaviour that have led to arrests. Their standard modus operandi is to turn up in some minor provincial town in England, stir shit up, march around making prats of themselves and wasting considerable police time with minor acts of violence while talking a big game about stopping the spread of radical Islam. A certain Anders Behring Breivik, he of killing-a-whole-bunch-of-Norwegian-teenagers fame, cited the EDL admiringly in his book-length manifesto. To say the name is sub-optimal is a major understatement. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/>