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Britain's new Internet Law: Death of the Startup in Britain?

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Re: Britain's new Internet Law: Death of the Startup in Britain?

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Where would the modern internet be without groups of people getting completely outraged by things that they shouldn't really worry about. You may not be outraged by the curtailment of our freedoms by a man who is unelected and has been booted out of post twice (at least) and who is spearheading a new copyright initiative immediately after staying at the pleasure of a media magnate, said initiative doing nothing for t…

It's only a few months until the whole government gets kicked out - including evil mandleson and his cronies. I have quite a bit of faith the Conservative government will undo a fair bit of the damage Labour have done.

> I have quite a bit of faith the Conservative government will undo a fair bit of the damage Labour have done.

Actually the Conservatives broadly support this particular bit of damage. In fact they want disconnection of filesharers to happen sooner: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2009-11-09c.6.8

Furthermore, the Tories are also in with Rupert Murdoch -- they're widely suspected of having done a secret deal with him -- so they'd be likely to go along with any new restrictions on fair use etc that Murdoch wants in order to turn the net into a locked-down pay-per-view digital newspaper. (Murdoch's plans won't work, of course, but that won't stop the Tories pushing through harmful laws).

So while the Tories will be better than Labour in some ways, they're sure to be worse in other ways: meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Re: Britain's new Internet Law: Death of the Startup in Britain?

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What sort of non-democratic regime were you thinking of that would give criminals a vote but would not follow the populous' voting decisions?

My point was that democracy is a horrible system, it doesn't work well, and you end up with idiotic laws decided just based on what the mob majority want. However, it's pretty much the best we've got so far, but that's not saying much. Democracy is fine if the majority are sane, have good morals, etc etc. But the majority of people in the US believe in god :/ The majority watch "American idol" and think the height of…

Don't criminals tend to fit the same profile though?

Benevolent dictatorship ftw.

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