See No Evil
Shooting the Messenger
The internet is a convenient scapegoat for society's ills.
The UK government is currently considering how best to imprison potentially many people for viewing some images.
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
Preserve Individual Freedoms
Backlash campaigns to ensure the right remedies are applied to the right problems.
Whilst doing so we preserve hard won individual rights and liberties.
"If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both" Benjamin Franklin.
Home Office Consultation Responses
The responses to the Home Office Consultation have now been released to the public domain, and are here for downloading.
Some responses have not been included under
Section 31(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act, which absolves the
Government from disclosing information where disclosure would
prejudice the apprehension or prosecution of offenders. Others that are withheld
are probably ones that the authors wished to be kept private.
The responses are in the form of Acrobat PDF files. All are in image form and none can be saved as text directly. The files are very large - two are nearly 30MB. You will therefore need a fast connection, and should download them, not open them directly, as you will not read them in one session.
In some cases there are alternative links via which to obtain specific responses.
Book 1 Response numbers 001 - 100 (262 pages)
Book 2 Response numbers 101 - 200 (331 pages)
124 Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties
186 Mr G of Childnet (Will Gardner)
193 Ofwatch
194 BBFC (official censor)
Book 3 Response numbers 201 - 300 (356 pages)
255 Mediawatch
Book 4 Response numbers 301 - 397 (305 pages)
301 Sexual Freedom Coalition
355 Julian Petley (Professor of Film and TV at Brunel)
374
Liberty
375
Women's National Commission
397 The Lucy Faithfull Foundation date is March 2006.
Book 5 Response numbers Anon 1 - Anon 10 (31 pages)
Jennifer Moore
Shaun Hollingworth