Digital economy bill backlash dominates e-election debate | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Digital Economy (DE) bill passes UK parliament with a near empty chamber.
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
Only one thing mattered to the UK's digital constituency this week: the digital economy bill. The election date announcement meant the #debill, as it is referred to on Twitter, was hurried through parliament before the election.
- As ever, Twitter is the back channel of choice for irreverent, real-time discussion, and commentators such as Kevin Marks, a former engineer for the BBC, Apple and Google, have been reinterpreting proceedings for the less politically inclined: "You'll care about the #debill when Youtube, Blogger, Google Docs are blocked for copyright infringement in the UK,"
- 64% of MPs didn't turn up to vote and 187 "strolled in at the end without bothering to listen to the debate".
The last straw was when it was revealed that Stephen Timms –- the minister for Digital Britain – was under the impression that "IP address" referred to "intellectual property", rather than internet protocol.
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