[Bradford] Fwd: Website blocking is back on the cards

[Dick Thomas]

Thought you guys and girls might like this

regards Dick Thomas

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forgive my brevity as this email was sent from my Android mobile device

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From: "Jim Killock" <jim.killock at openrightsgroup.org>
Date: 25 Mar 2011 21:06
Subject: Website blocking is back on the cards
To: <xpd259 at gmail.com>

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Dear richard thomas

*Website blocking is back on the
cards<http://www.e-activist.com:80/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=52215&ea.campaigner.email=l8VzodBM74ekst32P5eoZ9rfETNni0nM&ea_broadcast_target_id=0>
*

Government ministers are talking to Internet Service Providers about website
blocking. *We are very worried*: we think they are looking for a “plan B” if
the Digital Economy Act is derailed by this week’s court
case<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12816415>.
According to the
Guardian<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/22/isps-urged-to-block-filesharing-sites>and
others <http://www.itpro.co.uk/630610/ofcom-to-review-dea-website-blocking>,
ministers Ed Vaizey and Jeremy Hunt are still considering web blocking as a
serious option to tackle “illegal downloading” and copyright infringement.

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 *no
evidence that web blocking would work*: and plenty that it would create
collatoral damage, when the wrong sites are blocked, and *citizens or
companies’ legitimate activities disrupted*.

You can do your bit by letting your MPs know that this is not
acceptable. *Please
email them now to tell them to oppose web
blocking.*<http://www.e-activist.com:80/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=52216&ea.campaigner.email=l8VzodBM74ekst32P5eoZ9rfETNni0nM&ea_broadcast_target_id=0>

Read more on the legal and technical background
here<http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/copyright-and-web-blocking-in-the-uk>

Thank you,



Jim Killock,
Executive Director, Open Rights Group

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