The Digital Economy Bill for me is the single-most anger inducing piece of proposed legislation that I’ve yet heard – it includes measures to block ‘locations’ on the web (whatever a location is), effectively allowing web censorship at a Government level, to remove the rights of small creative people to decide how their work is exploited (photographers are particularly worried), to disconnect people on accusation of copyright theft and could potentially lead to free WIFI providers being unable to continue offering their services in public places.
But unfortunately I and many people like me feel unable to get our voices heard in criticism of the issues involved to effect change on the issue and to stop this legislation going through.
So – for those MPs who are on Twitter, I apologise in advance for what may occur, but here is “Tweet an MP” – it’s Chat Roulette for democracy. Log in via Twitter, type something in the box (sub-120ish characters) and it will send the message to a random MP who uses Twitter. I’m hoping we can get people to use it to raise awareness of our concerns in advance of Tuesday’s reading.
Crude, potentially spammy, borderline legal, fun? Definitely, and produced in 3 hrs over dinner using free software and hosting.
Tweet an MP
The Digital Economy Bill for me is the single-most anger inducing piece of proposed legislation that I’ve yet heard – it includes measures to block ‘locations’ on the web (whatever a location is), effectively allowing web censorship at a Government level, to remove the rights of small creative people to decide how their work is exploited (photographers are particularly worried), to disconnect people on accusation of copyright theft and could potentially lead to free WIFI providers being unable to continue offering their services in public places.
But unfortunately I and many people like me feel unable to get our voices heard in criticism of the issues involved to effect change on the issue and to stop this legislation going through.
So – for those MPs who are on Twitter, I apologise in advance for what may occur, but here is “Tweet an MP” – it’s Chat Roulette for democracy. Log in via Twitter, type something in the box (sub-120ish characters) and it will send the message to a random MP who uses Twitter. I’m hoping we can get people to use it to raise awareness of our concerns in advance of Tuesday’s reading.
Crude, potentially spammy, borderline legal, fun? Definitely, and produced in 3 hrs over dinner using free software and hosting.