Marcus Povey » digital economy bill http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk Making the world a better place, one byte at a time... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:13:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 #debill passed back to the commons http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2010/03/16/debill-passed-back-to-the-commons/ http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2010/03/16/debill-passed-back-to-the-commons/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:14:08 +0000 Marcus Povey http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/?p=477 So, it would seem that despite firm opposition by the Liberal democrats the utter abortion that is the Digital Economy bill has made it through the house of lords and has been passed back to the commons.

It is the government’s hope that MPs will not exercise their right to debate this bill further, and if the debate doesn’t happen the bill will be made law.

I can not express how bad this authoritarian and protectionist bill is or how much damage it will do to the UK economy.

It will increase the already disastrous brain drain, as well as losing any party which supports this bill the sizeable UK technical vote.

Please write to your MP now and ask that the bill is debated in full!

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