<p>Thought you guys and girls might like this </p>
<p>regards Dick Thomas</p>
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forgive my brevity as this email was sent from my Android mobile device</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Jim Killock" <<a href="mailto:jim.killock@openrightsgroup.org">jim.killock@openrightsgroup.org</a>><br>Date: 25 Mar 2011 21:06<br>
Subject: Website blocking is back on the cards<br>To: <<a href="mailto:xpd259@gmail.com">xpd259@gmail.com</a>><br><br type="attribution"><p><a href="http://bit.ly/joinorg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/assets/images/site/display_images/email/email_logo_left_2.gif" border="0" alt="Logo" width="352" height="60"></a></p>
<p>Dear richard thomas</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.e-activist.com:80/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=52215&ea.campaigner.email=l8VzodBM74ekst32P5eoZ9rfETNni0nM&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank">Website blocking is back on the cards</a></strong></p>
<p>Government ministers are talking to Internet Service Providers about website blocking. <strong>We are very worried</strong>: we think they are looking for a “plan B” if the Digital Economy Act is derailed by this week’s <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12816415" title="BBC on Judicial Review" target="_blank">court case</a>.
According to the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/22/isps-urged-to-block-filesharing-sites" title="Guardian" target="_blank">Guardian</a> and <a href="http://www.itpro.co.uk/630610/ofcom-to-review-dea-website-blocking" title="ITPro" target="_blank">others</a>, ministers Ed Vaizey and Jeremy Hunt are still considering web blocking as a serious option to tackle “illegal downloading” and copyright infringement.
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<p>This week, Dr Richard Clayton, from our Advisory Council, attended a meeting with Ofcom with our campaigner Peter Bradwell, to tell them that there is <strong>no evidence that web blocking would work</strong>: and plenty that it would create collatoral damage, when the wrong sites are blocked, and <strong>citizens or companies’ legitimate activities disrupted</strong>.</p>
<p>You can do your bit by letting your MPs know that this is not acceptable. <a href="http://www.e-activist.com:80/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=52216&ea.campaigner.email=l8VzodBM74ekst32P5eoZ9rfETNni0nM&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank"><strong>Please email them now to tell them to oppose web blocking.</strong></a></p>
<p>Read more on the legal and technical background <a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/copyright-and-web-blocking-in-the-uk" title="ORG web blocking briefing" target="_blank">here</a></p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
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<p>Jim Killock, <br>Executive Director, Open Rights Group </p>
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