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I'm disappointed

I'm disappointed

I'm quite surprised to see your organisation's name on the list of those supporting government measures to introduce compulsory monitoring of each and every person's internet connection in the UK and to introduce the first steps in censorship at a government level over what sites we can and cannot view on the internet. I'd have thought that someone in your position would value free speech and freedom of expression. I think it's a shame that organisations such as yours do not think beyond the old models which we have been working under for the last few hundred years and begin seeing the wider possibilities the internet offers us as a boon rather than something to be litigated against. You do your members no favours in taking this position and I and many like me intend to counter any proposal to monitor or block our or anyone else's internet connections.

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