The Digital Economy Bill, currently at the report stage in the Lords has caused concern, as Lib Dem peers Lord Razzall and Lord Clement-Jones are seeking an amendment to allow site blocking for copyright infringement. Earlier this week, Open Rights Group posted an appeal for people to write to the peers, asking them to drop the

The net is all a-Twitter with frustration and despair over Lib-Dem and Tory amendment 120a to the Digital Economy Bill. Why are we wasting our energies on this action while there are still much, MUCH greater threats to our rights and freedoms still inside the bill's content?

Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, writes about the Digital Economy Bill: The Open Rights Group would like to thank the Lib Dems for taking a strong policy stance against the Digital Economy Bill’s disconnection and web blocking proposals. The biggest danger now is that Parliament will not debate or amend the Bill at

Lib Dem Twitterers unite #ldconf on 12seconds.tv You can get your Spring Conference news here on this site, but did you know that Lib Dem Voice has its own boutique version for the time-pressed delegate, on microblogging site Twitter? As well as tweeting when we’ve published a new post, there’ll also be exclusive photos and videos from

As the Conservatives look set to help Labour push the flawed Digital Economy Bill into law before the election, Mike Simpson, Lib Dem candidate for SW Surrey, questions his opponent in the election – the Conservative media spokesman. Dear Mr Hunt Digital Economy Bill: another Parliamentary scandal? I am puzzled: why are you and the Conservatives working with the

Over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free website, Lib Dem blogger James Graham argues that it was the UK’s broken Parliament – an antiquated Lords, a whipped Commons – which got us into the legislative mess of Labour’s Digital Economy Bill. The only way to fix it, says James, is to vote for a new

Following a barage of criticism over amendments to the Digital Economy Bill, the backers of the amendment are to make concessions which, they hope, will answer many of the objections. As the FT reports [free registration may be required to view article]: The Liberal Democrats will publish changes on Friday to their original amendment, of which

A new web discussion site to encourage an online debate about the Government's vision for a fully digital economy and society was launched yesterday.

I rarely blog about work stuff, but last night our company, Associated Northcliffe Digital, was named Digital Team of the Year at the Newspaper Society Digital Media and Advertising Awards. Its stable included the memorial site Lasting Tribute which I helped launch last year, green platform Big Green Switch, and my current baby, journalism jobs and news site HoldtheFrontPage. Since our original en...

Last week we reported that, following the concessions forced on the government, Don Foster MP is broadly happy with the Digital Economy Bill’s proposals on illicit downloads. Jim Killock of the The Open Rights Group has a different take on the situation: The Digital Economy Bill should be opposed by Liberal Democrats. Mandelson’s Bill seeks to reduce illicit