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[News] Lib Dems Push to Make 'Chinese Censorship' in the UK

  • Subject: [News] Lib Dems Push to Make 'Chinese Censorship' in the UK
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:34:51 +0000
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Conservatives and Lib Dems push web blocking

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| Now, in an even more dangerous amendment, 
| Lib Dems and Conservatives push for web 
| blocking. This would open the door to a 
| massive imbalance of power in favour of 
| large copyright holding companies. 
| Individuals and small businesses would be 
| open to massive 'copyright attacks' that 
| could shut them down, just by the threat of 
| action.
`----

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/conservatives-and-lib-dems-push-web-blocking

25 Lib Dem PPCs sign letter asking Lib Dem Parliamentarians to think again on Digital Economy Bill

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| In the last day or so there has been 
| particular focus on an amendment put 
| forward in the Lords by Tim Clement-Jones 
| and Tim Razzall, the reasoning for which 
| Tim Clement-Jones explained in a post here 
| but which journalist and author (and Lib 
| Dem member) Cory Doctorow disagreed with.
`----

http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=18185

Urgent: Please Help Head Off Website Blocking in UK

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| We have only a few hours to stop something 
| bad happening in the House of Lords *this 
| afternoon*:
| 
| Lib Dem peers are seeking to amend the 
| Digital Economy Bill to allow site blocking 
| for copyright infringement. This could lead 
| to unwanted blocking of sites accused of 
| copyright infringement, including sites 
| like Youtube, and a massive chilling effect 
| as any site with user generated content 
| could easily fall foul of provisions like 
| this.
| 
| If you have five minutes spare, please 
| write to the two Lords behind this: Lord 
| Razzall and Clement Jones. The links given 
| take you to WriteToThem, so all you need to 
| do is supply a few words.
`----

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2827&blogid=14

(More) Trouble At T'Bill

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| The Lib Dems, in an apparent good-faith 
| attempt to avoid supporting the 
| Government's proposed unlimited power to 
| change any law on IP, any time, any where, 
| without proper scrutiny, in clause 17 of 
| the Digital Economy Bill, came up with an 
| alternative which almost everyone BUT the 
| LibDems and the Tories thinks is probably 
| even worse. It's a remarkable day indeed in 
| the DEB saltmines when you see the 
| government minister and the fabulous Earl 
| of Errol agreeing on anything. But also a 
| rather disturbing one.
`----

http://blogscript.blogspot.com/2010/03/more-trouble-at-tbill.html

How UK Chiropractors' Attempt To Silence One Critic Created The Backlash That May Change Chiropractics In The UK

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| One day someone will write a big case study 
| (or perhaps a book) about what happened 
| here. An attempt to silence a critic may 
| end up resulting in massive changes to not 
| just the British Chiropractic Association 
| (the article notes that many chiropractors 
| are horrified and want to leave the 
| organization), but also how people view 
| chiropractors and how chiropractic services 
| are marketed.
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100301/2324348351.shtml

New amendment gives copyright owners a blank cheque for web censorship

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| Imagine that, in the Summer of last year, 
| you had been following the MP's expenses 
| scandal and heard that The Telegraph was 
| publishing a rather less redacted version 
| that MP's were prepared to give us. 
| Interested, you navigated your way to 
| www.telegraph.co.uk only to find it was not 
| responding. After some searching around and 
| asking friends you discover that the 
| website has been blocked by most major UK 
| ISP's. It seems a junior official in 
| Parliament had asked them to block The 
| Telegraph for copyright violation.
`----

http://www.francisdavey.co.uk/2010/03/new-amendment-gives-copyright-owners.html


Recent:

Cherie Blair and One Law for All

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| The NSS was a founder member of the One
| Law for All Campaign which seeks to impede
| the march of sharia law in Britain.
| Naturally we think that in a democracy
| everyone must be equal under the law, with
| no exceptions. Sharia law is full of
| exceptions and it is clear that women are
| not equal under that system.
|
| But now we discover that a different â
| more favourable â system of justice is
| being applied to religious people by
| Cherie Blair (professional name Cherie
| Booth) in her capacity as a judge. Last
| week in the Inner London Crown Court, Ms
| Blair/Booth spared a violent yob from
| prison because he is a âreligious manâ.
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http://www.secularism.org.uk/118079.html
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