{"id":382903,"date":"2010-03-02T19:05:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100302\/1403088372.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-02T19:05:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:05:24","slug":"uk-politicians-look-to-make-digital-economy-bill-even-worse-insert-web-censorship-filter-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382903","title":{"rendered":"UK Politicians Look To Make Digital Economy Bill Even Worse: Insert Web Censorship Filter Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve written a few times about politicians trying to fix<\/a> Peter Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill, but now it appears some politicians are trying to make it worse<\/i>. One of the proposed amendments would let the government designate websites to be blocked at the ISP level<\/a>. This is blatant censorship, of the kind that Australia is now trying to implement, and which China already uses. Basically, if a court determines that, via any website, a “substantial” amount of infringing content can be accessed, the court could order ISPs to block that site. The idea here, obviously, is to get ISPs to block sites like The Pirate Bay and to stifle new technologies. If this had been a couple decades ago, they would be passing laws to ban the VCR.<\/p>\n

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We’ve written a few times about politicians trying to fix Peter Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill, but now it appears some politicians are trying to make it worse. One of the proposed amendments would let the government designate websites to be blocked at the ISP level. This is blatant censorship, of the kind that Australia is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}