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.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:

On 17 January 2012 12:51, Harry Burt <harryaburt@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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