Lack of Joined Up Government

[purplecthulhu]

According to BBC News Online the government want us all to get online. But this announcement comes in the same week it emerged that (dark) Lord Mandelson wants to give himself the power to cut people (and everyone else using that account) off the internet if they are suspected of downloading copyright material (suspected - no legal procedure to

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[major_clanger]

This is why the latest u-turn is so frustrating. The Digital Britain report, whilst not to everyone's taste, did acknowledge that with online delivery of government services being so important it was not acceptable to have total disconnection as a punishment - it would be a sort of digital excommunication (see my comments over at LawClanger, and my recent follow-up).

[purplecthulhu]

Quite how the Dark Lord will get this past EU law will be interesting!

They're likely not to be in power to do it, but it's the kind of idea that Tories might copy...

[major_clanger]

The cynical amongst us suspect a pincer movement - pass UK law 'compliant with EU law' whilst at the same time removing or neutering Amendment 138.

[purplecthulhu]

Maybe time to join the Pirate Party...