Richard's Kingdom

First they came for the child abuse images, but I did not speak out, because I am not a vile criminal. Next they neutered newzbin2, yet I said nothing, because usenet is for dweebs. Presently they prohibited the Pirate Bay, and I did not protest, because I’m not a fan of TV or film. When [...]

The Government may be about to propose some misconceived, illiberal and anti-competitive copyright-enforcement policies in a Communications Bill green paper. The Open Rights Group has a briefing up on the proposals and their concerns about them. In summary the suggestion seems to be that UK web-surfers should be prevented from accessing websites that major corporate [...]

This session was a masterclass in effective lobbying run by Phil Booth and Terri Dowty of truth2power. The first obvious step in lobbying your MP is to find out who they are and how to contact them. Thanks to the wonderful folk at mysociety this can be done simply by visiting write to them and [...]

Billed as a practical session, this turned out to be a discussion of various tools useful to activists, focusing on autonomy, decentralisation, privacy, anonymity, security and freedom of expression. I didn’t take detailed notes however I wrote down a list of links to tools that were discussed: OnoRobot.org – Educational resource explaining privacy and security [...]

UPDATE 2012-04-05 16:00 BST: I had my legislative proposals confused. Turns out there are two separate sets of measures being proposed at present. This session was on the forthcoming Communications Green Paper not the Communications Capabilities Development Programme. I’ve updated the post title and content accordingly. My thanks to the [org-discuss] mailing-list subscriber who pointed [...]