{"id":1647,"date":"2010-07-11T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2010-08-23T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T08:31:17","slug":"repeal-the-digital-economy-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/repeal-the-digital-economy-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeal the Digital Economy Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Stop-mandelson-fb.jpg?resize=110%2C80&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"Stop-mandelson-fb\" width=\"110\" height=\"80\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1651\" \/><\/a> There&#8217;s a fantastic new UK government website called <a href=\"http:\/\/yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk\">yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk<\/a> which gives us the chance to tell the government which laws and regulations we think they should get rid of. Please take a minute to vote 5 stars on <a href=\"http:\/\/yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk\/repealing-unnecessary-laws\/digital-economy-act\">repealing the digital economy act<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Why? What&#8217;s so bad about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_Economy_Act\">the Digital Economy Act<\/a>?<\/em> My objection to this law is that it gives corporations the power to ban a entire household from the internet and I feel very strongly that everyone should have the right to be online. I would go so far as to say, for me, life without the internet wouldn&#8217;t be worth living. Just because someone in the household has broken some licensing agreements shouldn&#8217;t mean they are stopped from all the useful online stuff such as paying for road tax, <a href=\"http:\/\/yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk\">campaigning for freedom<\/a>, conducting research, enjoying art, planning travel, etc etc.<\/p>\n<p>Other reason this Act seems unfair to me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Act uses a guilty-until-proven-innocent system.<\/li>\n<li>The Act will add extra costs on wi-fi providers &#8211; meaning less public wi-fi. I had hoped the whole country would be blanketed in wi-fi by now.<\/li>\n<li>The Act is a threat to sites that permit user-generated content. This is because it has web blocking provisions that let copyright holders get a site taken down for inadvertently hosting a small amount of copyrighted content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another fantastic government website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.number10.gov.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.number10.gov.uk\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a fantastic new UK government website called yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk which gives us the chance to tell the government which laws and regulations we think they should get rid of. Please take a minute to vote 5 stars on repealing the digital economy act. Why? What&#8217;s so bad about the Digital Economy Act? My objection to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62,61,63],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-freedom","tag-politics","tag-ukgovernment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}