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Tuesday
Apr062010

The eve of the Digital Economy Bill?

I have posted before about the risks that the Digital Economy Bill poses for internet users and how it seemed likely to be pushed through as part of the wash-up procedure (as described here on boingboing) before the dissolution of parliament.

For whatever it is worth, Merseyside lawyers seem to have united against the bill (at least on the basis of last week's Liverpool Daily Post article quoting various lawyers including me).

Protests against the bill generally have gathered force, but it seems that it may still be a case of too little too late. The second reading of the bill took place today in the House of Commons (what debate there was is reported in Hansard) and the committee and third reading stages are slated for tomorrow, 7th April.

There are clearly objections to the bill from all sides of the house, but this may not be enough to prevent it from being passed tomorow.

There is still just about time to contact your MP (using the 38 Degrees service for example) although the 20,000 emails apparently received so far don't seem to have weighed particularly heavily on MPs.

Will the protests make any difference... or will tomorrow see the bill's final approval in the House of Commons?

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