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Digital Economy, Britain, Post General Election Circa 6th May

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

From: David Miller
To: garethepps@cix.co.uk
Subject: Digital Economy, Britain, Post General Election Circa 6th May
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:30:36 +0100
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Dear Mr Epps

I understand you are running for election in Reading East.

One of the issues which most concerned me was the way in which, and
content contained in, the Digital Economy Bill.

I would be most interested to hear your position on this matter.

I would want my representative in government to do the following:

* Speak in the House of Commons
* Vote there accordingly
* Attempt to raise the priority of the issue within their own party

in order to accomplish the following:

* Removing all reference to disconnection from the internet as a possible penalty.
* Ensure that before any action can be taken, infringement must be proven beyond all reasonable doubt.

I look forward to your response.


Love regards etc

David Miller
www.deadpansincerity.com
07964250347

340 Gosbrook Road
Caversham
Reading
RG4 8EG


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“Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The
sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into
account, the sooner people will start making money again.” – Bruce Schneier

The Well 2010

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Basically, the political class is waiting for the civil population to come back to the church of the free market and get over the fact that its cardinals walk in public with no clothes on.

You’re starting to see weird forms of acting-out, neurotic displacement activities. Fetishes, even. Sarah Palin, for instance. I could go on about that woman every day. And so can everybody else, which is why they do.

Genocide has much more proven shelf-appeal than any of these hokum Rube Goldberg geo-schemes. It’s by no means easy to kill off half of everybody, but we’ve already invented a wide variety of ingenious ways to attempt that, and almost all of ‘em are much simpler, more rugged and more plausible than putting the North Pole under a tinfoil hat.

Bruce Sterling’s State of the World 2010

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