Responses to the Home Office consultation
The Home Office will roll their proposals into a Criminal Justice Bill expected in 2007.
Home Office
The Home Office finally published their analysis and decisionfollowing receipt of responses to the consultation document five months late at the end of August.
They were, er, a trifle preoccupied with other problems.
Scottish Executive
The Scottish Executive have
published a summary and the
individual responses they received - at least, those that got through the firewall blocking "inappropriate words" - and backlash made an independent analysis.
We understand the civil servants' evaluation has been submitted to Ministers for consideration and the intention is to publish recommendations before Parliament goes on holiday for the summer in July.
(1) The consultation paper is available as
• The original 175 Kb pdf by the Home Office
• An 85 Kb
html version from a backlash supporter site.
• Extracts of significant ironic and inconvenient bits .
Shooting the Messenger
The internet is a convenient scapegoat for society's ills.
The UK government is to legislate how best to imprison potentially many people for viewing content on the internet.
How should governments regulate the details of our personal lives and control individual expression ?
Prime Minister conflicted
.... there are areas in which the State, or the
community, no longer has a role or, if it does have
one, it is a role that is completely different. It is
not for the State to tell people that they cannot
choose a different lifestyle, for example in issues to
do with sexuality.
Tony Blair 5th Sept 2006