Writing to MPs about UK Digital Economy Bill
This is main body of the email I have just sent to my MP regarding the Digial Economy Bill…
Over the last five years, broadband has made leaps forward in the UK with more and more people connecting to the greatest information resource in the world. Broadband internet access provides me with 100% of my income and has done for eight years. My rights as an individual to connect to this information should be protected in the same way as my right to be provided with gas or electricity.
However, the Digital Economy Bill will take the UK’s digital economy backwards by allowing internet disconnection without full legal process. I agree with those people that think it will damage schools and businesses as well as innocent people who rely on the internet because it will allow the Government to disconnect people it suspects of copyright infringement.
Furthermore, such a punitive internet law will only harm those people who are not technically able to encrypt their connections or to tunnel information through the UK networks and out to more open regions. The real internet pirates will continue to operate, this bill will just make it harder for them to be tracked and monitored.
As a constituent I am writing to you today to ask you to do all you can to ensure the Government doesn’t just rush the bill through and deny us our democratic right to scrutiny and debate.
UK people… get writing at 38 Degrees.
