So yeah the Queen shows up at the house of commons, goes through the whole tradition and stiff upperlippedness and so forth to address the "commoners" and tell them her decrees of what laws she wants pushed through.
This happens every year and goes by largely unnoticed, thankfully i was bored shitless and actualy paid attention.
What got me was this part here:My Government will introduce a Bill to ensure the communications infrastructure is fit for the digital age, supports future economic growth, delivers competitive communications and enhances public service broadcasting.
Now on the surface it sounds like no big a thing... untill you notice two key words DIGITAL and ECONOMY which i can only assume refers to little Pete Mandelsons pet project the "Digital Economy Bill."
Let me backtrack here first and say that the french government are [expletive deleted] and these [expletive deleted] saw fit to introduce the "three strike rule" meaning that if you download a copy of "indiana jones: stops dicking around and teaches his class for once" and get busted by big brother you get a letter.
You then go out and download "xfactor: with another regurgitated poorly performed chart topper" and get caught again you get another nastier more stern letter to the effect of "cut the shit and start paying for stuff otherwise the banhammer will be epic."
Undetered you persist and download another copywritten work of "art" (i use the term loosely) and you find that when you turn on your computer instead of seeing google when you click tinternet button instead you see "hardy har har YUO ARE TEH SUX DISCONNECTED NO MOAR INTERNETS FOR YUO!" (presumably in a french accent)
This was seen by the rest of the world to be a fairly dick move (ecept of course by the recording industry who rapidly began nursing a chubby to the whole ordeal, never more hard downstairs since they realised CD's and DVD's meant people would by the same shit twice)
Anyway, France uncontent with bending their own citizens over a desk and letting them feel the best that prison has to offer, decided to pressure the EU into following suit.
"Um... the concept is solid but "user diconnection" is off the table." responded our own government, in a breif lucid moment of sanity. (i was actualy proud to be part of the UK for once)
Queue a few months ago, Mr Mendelson (hitlers left nut incarnate) decided that it was hard work being dickcheese and decided to go on holiday, Corfu seemed nice. and it was.
He decided to dine in style though and got diggs at a Villa out there owned by none other than the banking dynasty Rothschild (the kind of people who wipe thier asses on hundred quid notes) it should be noted that none other than David Geffen (known for Geffen Records, movies, and general media mogulness) was also "slummuing it" out in the villa. lifes hard man!
Feeling refreshed from his nice little vacation abroad living the high life he returned home and suddenly the "Digital Economy Bill" was born.
So yeah this disconnect thing... Now firmly and squarely back on the table (presumably the same table your supposed to be bent over wearing nowt but a diving suit with the arse cut out with a grinning Mandelson behind you in leather cowboy chaps...)
The bill is a riot of a read from the very first passage of:
"EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Lord Mandelson has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998:
In my view the provisions of the Digital Economy Bill [HL] are compatible with the Convention rights."
Its a pretty wide bill, in that it covers a wide range of topics reading through some made my eyebrow twitch, for instance:
42 Extension and regulation of licensing of copyright and performers’ rights
Bearing in mind im not nor proclaim to be a lawyer but after rereading it a number of times i come away from this ammendmend with the feeling that it ammends existing copyright law and sets it up so that the "Secretary of State" has the ability ot grant extensions to a copyright, so instead of things lasting between 50 and 70 years you can give mandelson a backhander and have an extension granted indefinately to continue sail of something which should already be in the Public Domain.
The entire bill seems to give plenty of opportunity to the secretary of state to change things in favour for companies at the expense of the public whilst presumably gaining a tidy profit from backroom deals.
This is all above and beyond the medias fixation with the disconnection of the internet, if you really read THE COPY OF THE BILL RIGHT HERE you can blatantly see other things at work (if you can wade through the moonspeak at all), like giving the secratary of state powers to install devices into isp's to allow things like throttling, wiretapping and such at his discression.
The best part is its completely and utterly vague, 2+2 in this case = whatever the hell the secratary of state needs it to be (in this case its generaly 2+2= sore public arse and stacks of money into offshore acounts)
So we now have a completely loose worded bill with the Queens backing and Mandelsons seal of approval getting flaunted on an unsuspecting public whos too intimidated by the language barrier to actualy read whats being put through!
Ive never been more disgusted to be a citizen of this shithole in my life.
Cant we just set up a paypal account which everyone pays into with the hope that someone will assasinate all of these corrupt assholes to claim the bounty?
This happens every year and goes by largely unnoticed, thankfully i was bored shitless and actualy paid attention.
What got me was this part here:My Government will introduce a Bill to ensure the communications infrastructure is fit for the digital age, supports future economic growth, delivers competitive communications and enhances public service broadcasting.
Now on the surface it sounds like no big a thing... untill you notice two key words DIGITAL and ECONOMY which i can only assume refers to little Pete Mandelsons pet project the "Digital Economy Bill."
Let me backtrack here first and say that the french government are [expletive deleted] and these [expletive deleted] saw fit to introduce the "three strike rule" meaning that if you download a copy of "indiana jones: stops dicking around and teaches his class for once" and get busted by big brother you get a letter.
You then go out and download "xfactor: with another regurgitated poorly performed chart topper" and get caught again you get another nastier more stern letter to the effect of "cut the shit and start paying for stuff otherwise the banhammer will be epic."
Undetered you persist and download another copywritten work of "art" (i use the term loosely) and you find that when you turn on your computer instead of seeing google when you click tinternet button instead you see "hardy har har YUO ARE TEH SUX DISCONNECTED NO MOAR INTERNETS FOR YUO!" (presumably in a french accent)
This was seen by the rest of the world to be a fairly dick move (ecept of course by the recording industry who rapidly began nursing a chubby to the whole ordeal, never more hard downstairs since they realised CD's and DVD's meant people would by the same shit twice)
Anyway, France uncontent with bending their own citizens over a desk and letting them feel the best that prison has to offer, decided to pressure the EU into following suit.
"Um... the concept is solid but "user diconnection" is off the table." responded our own government, in a breif lucid moment of sanity. (i was actualy proud to be part of the UK for once)
Queue a few months ago, Mr Mendelson (hitlers left nut incarnate) decided that it was hard work being dickcheese and decided to go on holiday, Corfu seemed nice. and it was.
He decided to dine in style though and got diggs at a Villa out there owned by none other than the banking dynasty Rothschild (the kind of people who wipe thier asses on hundred quid notes) it should be noted that none other than David Geffen (known for Geffen Records, movies, and general media mogulness) was also "slummuing it" out in the villa. lifes hard man!
Feeling refreshed from his nice little vacation abroad living the high life he returned home and suddenly the "Digital Economy Bill" was born.
So yeah this disconnect thing... Now firmly and squarely back on the table (presumably the same table your supposed to be bent over wearing nowt but a diving suit with the arse cut out with a grinning Mandelson behind you in leather cowboy chaps...)
The bill is a riot of a read from the very first passage of:
"EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Lord Mandelson has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998:
In my view the provisions of the Digital Economy Bill [HL] are compatible with the Convention rights."
Its a pretty wide bill, in that it covers a wide range of topics reading through some made my eyebrow twitch, for instance:
42 Extension and regulation of licensing of copyright and performers’ rights
Bearing in mind im not nor proclaim to be a lawyer but after rereading it a number of times i come away from this ammendmend with the feeling that it ammends existing copyright law and sets it up so that the "Secretary of State" has the ability ot grant extensions to a copyright, so instead of things lasting between 50 and 70 years you can give mandelson a backhander and have an extension granted indefinately to continue sail of something which should already be in the Public Domain.
The entire bill seems to give plenty of opportunity to the secretary of state to change things in favour for companies at the expense of the public whilst presumably gaining a tidy profit from backroom deals.
This is all above and beyond the medias fixation with the disconnection of the internet, if you really read THE COPY OF THE BILL RIGHT HERE you can blatantly see other things at work (if you can wade through the moonspeak at all), like giving the secratary of state powers to install devices into isp's to allow things like throttling, wiretapping and such at his discression.
The best part is its completely and utterly vague, 2+2 in this case = whatever the hell the secratary of state needs it to be (in this case its generaly 2+2= sore public arse and stacks of money into offshore acounts)
So we now have a completely loose worded bill with the Queens backing and Mandelsons seal of approval getting flaunted on an unsuspecting public whos too intimidated by the language barrier to actualy read whats being put through!
Ive never been more disgusted to be a citizen of this shithole in my life.
Cant we just set up a paypal account which everyone pays into with the hope that someone will assasinate all of these corrupt assholes to claim the bounty?