Day: April 8, 2010
Oh my Goodness me! You’re saying that they’re running the country??!?
Here is a scan of a letter from The Minister for Digital Britain to another MP that has appeared on the internet:
Can you spot the inconsistency between the stated facts in the letter and reality?
Now, as it turns out I’m not against crackdowns on copyright theft and illegal file-sharing, and the bit of the DEBill that I had issues with has been dropped (Clause 43), but I am still HORRIFIED that the people running the damn thing are so patently ignorant of the subject matter!
I mean, forget that they don’t even realise how utterly absurd it is to think that there are economically viable and yet also provable and reliable ways to stop file-sharing in the first place, and reflect for a moment on how absurd it is for us to have a “Minister for Digital Britain” who either does not know what an IP Address actually is, or perhaps even more unforgivable does not proof-read his outgoing mail.
I despair…