Comment Get Involved (Score 5, Informative) 115
Here are some links for you guys to check out. Please get out there and get involved:
The Open Rights Group look to promote your rights in a digital age:
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/
Tom Watson (a labour cabinet minister who has a blog) recently encouraged debate about a proposal by the culture secretary Andy Burnham concerning internet censorship. Here is a link to that post, and be sure to bring up this is issue and the proposed issue of a wider internet database:
http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/12/andy-burnham-and-internet-site-classification/
Try getting in contact with the Home Office directly and make your views heard:
Address: Home Office, Direct Communications Unit, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF.
Tel: 020 7035 4848
Email: public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
The Labour Party can be contacted at:
Address: The Labour Party, Eldon House, Regent Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE3 3PW.
Tel: 08705 900 200
And above all else, keep up the pressure. Governments are concerned with one thing and one thing only. Power. If they realise this is an issue that could cost them an election, they will have very little option but to rethink.
Thank You.