stef's posterous

I'm disappointed

I'm quite surprised to see your organisation's name on the list of
those supporting government measures to introduce compulsory
monitoring of each and every person's internet connection in the UK
and to introduce the first steps in censorship at a government level
over what sites we can and cannot view on the internet.

I'd have thought that someone in your position would value free speech
and freedom of expression, but instead you have given your name to a
movement which will see important websites such as Wikileaks be
subject to sustained attacks over copyright infringement, the internet
connections of free wifi providers like museums, libraries and
colleges put under risk of being closed and young people criminalised
for enjoying music.

I think it's a shame that organisations such as yours do not think
beyond the old models which we have been working under for the last
few hundred years and begin seeing the wider possibilities the
internet offers us as a boon rather than something to be litigated
against.

You do your members no favours in taking this position and I and many
like me intend to counter any proposal to monitor or block our or
anyone else's internet connections.

Regards,

Stef