{"id":42054113,"date":"2010-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2010\/05\/09\/Digital-economy-bill-rushed-through-wash-up-in-late-night\/"},"modified":"2010-05-28T03:15:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:15:32","slug":"Digital-economy-bill-rushed-through-wash-up-in-late-night\/","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=42054113","title":{"rendered":"Digital economy bill rushed through wash-up in late night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sustuff\">Stumbleupon Review of : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/apr\/08\/digital-economy-bill-passes-third-reading\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/apr\/08\/digital-economy-bill-passes-third-reading<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/to\/1Rj443\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/apr\/08\/digital-economy-bill-passes-third-reading\/t:4bff35063947c;src:reviews\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"review\">\n<ul style=\"font-family: Verdana, Sans-Serif; width : 500px; margin : 10px auto; padding : 60px 65px 45px; color : #ca8; line-height : 1.5em; background: url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-top-clear.png) no-repeat 10px 10px; width : 450px; margin-left : 40px;\"> From the page: Earlier the government removed its proposed clause 18, which could have given it sweeping powers to block sites, but replaced it with an amendment to clause 8 of the bill. The new clause allows the secretary of state for business to order the blocking of &quot;a location on the internet which the court is satisfied has been, is being or is likely to be used for or in connection with an activity that infringes copyright&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> The Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming protested that this could mean the blocking of the whistleblower site Wikileaks, which carries only copyrighted work. Stephen Timms for the government said that it would not want to see the clause used to restrict freedom of speech &#8211; but gave no assurance that sites like Wikileaks would not be blocked.<\/p>\n<p> Don Foster, the Liberal Democrats&#39; spokesman for culture, media and sport, protested that the clause was too wide-ranging: &quot;it could apply to Google,&quot; he complained, adding that its inclusion of the phrase about &quot;likely to be used&quot; meant that a site could be blocked on its assumed intentions rather than its actions.<br \/><b style=\"display : block; background : url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-bottom-clear.png) no-repeat bottom right; height : 60px; width : 100%; position : relative; top : -10px; left : 50px;\"><\/b><\/ul>\n<p> Oh goody, we now have a Great Firewall of our very own! Take that, dictatorships of the world! <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/apr\/08\/digital-economy-bill-passes-third-reading From the page: Earlier the government removed its proposed clause 18, which could have given it sweeping powers to block sites, but replaced it with an amendment to clause 8 of the bill. The new &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=42054113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42054113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42054113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42054113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42054113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42054113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42054113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}