Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Mandelsons Digital Economy Bill

Do you remember Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill, well the consequences are now coming home to roost some £500m being sucked out of the economy.

A total of £500m will be taken out of the economy and wasted into a bureaucratic scheme that is unlikely to bring the public any benefits. This is ludicrous given that we are in a recession.
The power to block websites to block websites comes with this Act. Of course it is only for pirated content, but we heard that RIPA was to catch terrorists and we ended up with Council officials following people around to see if they were in school catchment areas or not.

This was a parting shot from the Stasi State, and it should be sitting on the top of the Con Dem bonfire of legislation, except somebody has forgotten to bring the matches.

3 comments:

SumoKing said...

I know we all hate all lawyers, lawyers are an evil cult that holds government in our black taloned grip as a money making scam, honest we do honest even though you make a lot more money as a lawyer than a wonk but, just maybe it would have been wise to have at least 1 lawyer who has had some real life practising experience to look over the clusterfuck of RIPA before it went live.

The Register did a good piece only this week on the mess it is.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/ripa_email_advice/

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