[1609] in Privacy_Forum
[ PRIVACY Forum ] LEAKED: UK copyright lobby holds closed-door
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Thu Jun 23 01:01:46 2011
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:36:27 -0700
To: privacy-list@vortex.com
Message-ID: <20110623043627.GB24089@vortex.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
From: privacy@vortex.com
Reply-To: PRIVACY Forum mailing list <privacy@vortex.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Errors-To: privacy-bounces+privacy-forum=mit.edu@vortex.com
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
LEAKED: UK copyright lobby holds closed-door meetings with gov't to
discuss national Web-censorship regime
http://j.mp/iOAFeg (BoingBoing)
"A group of UK copyright lobbyists held confidential, closed-door
meetings with Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and
Creative Industries to discuss a plan to allow industry groups to
censor the Internet in the UK. The proposal has leaked, and it reveals
a plan to establish "expert bodies" that would decide which websites
British people were allowed to see, to be approved by a judge using a
"streamlined" procedure. The procedure will allow for "swift" blocking
in order to shut down streaming of live events."
- - -
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Google Buzz: http://j.mp/laurenbuzz
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
_______________________________________________
privacy mailing list
http://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy
