After reading your comments in the Daily Telegraph about the "dangerous internet" and bringing in cinema- style ratings for websites to protect not only children but adults, I'm not sure if you have been enjoying the office party a little too much or whether getting into the festive spirit you have decided on a Christmas makeover as Scrooge.Bar Humbug!
Ideas such as this make me despair that this Government really does not get the web at all.
One minute the Labour Government talks about our creative industries being one of the engines that will pull us out of the recession. The next minute it is threatening to snuff out one of the last bright flames in the economy by talking about ridiculous legislation.
Some questions Andy:
- Do you plan just to apply this to UK based sites?
- Does the Government not realise that the web is not a walled garden and it cannot force these regulations on sites that do not originate in the UK?
- Or does the Government plan to make the UK like China and bring in heavy censorship of the internet blocking sites that it does not approve of?
- Also Andy, is it not a worrying trend that a government minister in a democracy says he knows what people should and shouldn't be allowed to read and see?
So Andy, I hope this was merely a throw away comment aimed at pleasing ill informed floating voters in a quiet news period and not a real attempt at a policy suggestion.
If so you could still be one of the the brighter lights on Gordon's Christmas tree.
Merry Christmas and let's hope that like Scrooge you see the error of your ways before it's too late and that you revert back to the generous, kindhearted soul you were in your youth.
Yours
The Ghost of Christmas Present
PS - You can tell the Government what you think of this ridiculous policy suggestion yourself here.
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