I thought China was the biggest threat to free speech on the Internet

But it turns out that Britain could be just as dangerous.

Promoting the idea of creating new speech regulations (including assigning movie-style ratings to web sites); Great Britain’s “culture” secretary Andy Burnham said:

“If you look back at the people who created the Internet they talked very deliberately about creating a space that governments couldn’t reach, discount cialis pharmacy ” Burnham told The Telegraph. “I think we are having to revisit that stuff seriously now.”

At the risk of earning an “X” rating from Mr. Burnham’s proposed Internet Thought Police, I’d like to cordially invite the gentleman to go fuck himself.

3 comments December 28th, 2008