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ORG policy update 2017 Week 06
This is ORG's Policy Update for the week beginning 06/02/2017. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.
BlogTen years jail for file sharers—the governments’ gift to copyright trolls
Why does the government want to encourage legal threats to grannies and put file sharing teens in prison for a decade?
BlogJust how much censorship will the DEBill lead to?
How could the power to block pornographic websites lead to massive censorship, when the BBFC thinks it wants want to censor “just” a few hundred sites.
BlogGovernment says privacy safeguards are not “necessary” in Digital Economy Bill
The Government still doesn’t consider privacy safeguards necessary in the Digital Economy Bill and they see court orders for website blocking as excessively burdensome.
