Fair point.
As of time of writing, the U.S. Congress is currently considering the issue
of whether to tighten internet policing laws with regard to digital rights
enforcement. Whilst the overall goal of these pieces of proposed
legislation (mostly notably those known as SOPA and PIPA) is not
necessarily disagreeable, the suggested mechanisms for rights enforcement
risk damaging the quality, quantity and free character of speech on the
internet. Given the global nature of the internet, we, the undersigned,
feel that the British Government should consider the possible impact of
these measures on British citizens, and are confident that upon doing so it
would see the overt and immediate need to speak out on our behalf in this
matter.
My stab at things. Thoughts? Does it need more explanation? Or is brevity
key?
--
Harry
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On 17 January 2012 12:51, Harry Burt
<harryaburt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I note that there is a petition with 280
signatures available at:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/26143
It seems to be fairly strongly (but not badly IMHO) worded, so therefore
worthy of our support if we can get geolocation going.
I'd rather we wrote out own petition. We should focus on the freedom
aspects and the workability of the acts, not things like job losses
(which I'm not even sure are true).
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