{"id":412,"date":"2010-04-08T16:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2010-04-08T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:15:59","slug":"oh-my-goodness-me-youre-saying-that-theyre-running-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/techno-mage\/2010\/04\/08\/oh-my-goodness-me-youre-saying-that-theyre-running-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh my Goodness me! You’re saying that they’re running the country??!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a scan of a letter from The Minister for Digital Britain to another MP that has appeared on the internet:<\/p>\n

Political FAIL<\/p>\n

Can you spot the inconsistency between the stated facts in the letter and reality?<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I despair…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,69,76,15],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-personal","category-politics","category-professional-geekery","tag-debill","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wrUK-6E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}