[dundee] Digital Economy Bill

Iain Barnett iainspeed at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 17:53:00 UTC 2009


On 25 Nov 2009, at 15:44, Rick Moynihan wrote:

> This is the least of my worries... and it's not because of the
> security of my wireless network.  The bigger problem is that the bill
> grants the government the right to draft new laws and ammendments with
> little or no parliamentary review...  We've seen with the
> anti-terrorism laws how poorly defined laws get abused:

Completely agree. In practice it'll only affect file sharers and the  
ridiculously lazy. Bypassing democratic processes, however, that is  
actually problematic for society as a whole.


Iain
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