Comments on: UK government wants to regulate the Inter Tubes

By: Y8

Y8 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:00:50 +0000

Fail, fail.

By: توبيكات اسماء

توبيكات اسماء — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:41:23 +0000

There are times where the best attitude to take towards people who so willfully misunderstand the internet like Burnham is just to tap their head repeatedly shouting “McFly”.

By: A robot and a man, from another planet… (or, How did I get here?) - Dominic Sparks

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:31:36 +0000

[...] existed in it, and how they related to each other. It wasn’t that I misunderstood the web (even now a lot of people don’t understand it), just that I wasn’t at ease with not knowing exactly what kind of a thing it was. I [...]

By: bebek oyunlari

bebek oyunlari — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:34:24 +0000

What a complete and utter tool. He should bugger off to a more ‘progressive’ state like Saudi Arabia to put his ideas in action.

By: The Perils of Twit-Napping | RSS To Twitter - The easiest way to send RSS feeds directly to Twitter

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:48:39 +0000

[...] Butcher wrote today on TechCrunch about the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) and their apparent inability to [...]

By: Britain’s war on civil liberties will harm online businesses « Amused Cynicism

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:56:25 +0000

[...] the same time, this week, culture secretary Andy Burnham suggested “unsuitable” websites be given cinema-style ratings, a move which played well with some parenting organisations – but as most people who know anything [...]

By: A robot and a man . . . hold the world spellbound with new and startling powers from another planet! « Dominic Sparks

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:02:09 +0000

[...] existed in it, and how they related to each other. It wasn’t that I misunderstood the web (like this Andy Burnham guy), just that I wasn’t at ease with not knowing exactly what kind of a thing it was. I [...]

By: The UK government’s plans to retain email data and rate online content will cost too much, destroy business, liberty and must be stopped - start making placards

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:00:41 +0000

By: devolute

devolute — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:25:44 +0000

What a complete and utter tool. He should bugger off to a more ‘progressive’ state like Saudi Arabia to put his ideas in action.

By: Twitter vigilantes hijack the Daily Mail | Media Money

Twitter vigilantes hijack the Daily Mail | Media Money — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:56:09 +0000

[...] the wake of Mike Butcher’s expropriation of culture minister Andy Burnham’s identity on Twitter, I’ve come across news of another [...]

By: Užrašai iš skaitmeninio fronto #12 : nežinau.lt

Užrašai iš skaitmeninio fronto #12 : nežinau.lt — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:08:27 +0000

[...] (sekretorius) neseniai susidomėjo, kas yra internetas, ir, pamanęs, kad jis panašus į filmą, pasiūlė reitinguoti svetaines pagal jų tinkamumą vaikams. Gerai bent, kad atsiranda prieštaraujančių. Pasak Gizmodo, tokia nesąmonė JAV negresia. [...]

By: Bowblog: Filter seeking behaviour: free speech on the net depends on good filters.

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:05:10 +0000

[...] or exploited or upset. It really is not enough to say that the only way to guarantee that is to sit at their shoulders as they go online, ready to jump in and curtail the experience if I think it’s going wrong [...]

By: Who’s responsible? « Googling the government

Who’s responsible? « Googling the government — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:40:04 +0000

[...] of understanding about the internet and how it works. One of most vociferous is on the prolific TechCrunch blog which offers some opinions on why age ratings, and government intervention as a whole, cannot [...]

By: Government to allow private firms to monitor every move we make. I’m moving to China.

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:23:38 +0000

[...] every child’s name and address in the UK, it is an amazing act of hubris. Plus, it comes in the wake proposals by the Ministry of Truth (Ok, so the Department of Culture, Media and Sport) to regulate content. [...]

By: Ja, herr minister: jeg stjal Twitter-kontoen din « Web 2.0 partiet

Ja, herr minister: jeg stjal Twitter-kontoen din « Web 2.0 partiet — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:11:41 +0000

[...] Glimrende ide fra TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher. I etterkant av den engelske kulturministeren Andy Burnhams famøse uttalelser om behovet for å senurere nettet satte Butcher likesågodt opp en Twitter-profil i [...]

By: Andy Burnham isn’t a wanker : Dan Wilson : eBay expert, social networking, online community, ecommerce, stuff

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:13:21 +0000

[...] reaction to Andy Burnham’s announcement that British websites should carry a cinema style ratings was x-rated. The notion that the UK and the US could get together and make it work is hilariously [...]

By: James

James — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:57:58 +0000

SO awesome that you have violated the TOS of a service that is written about on this site dozens of times a day. Once, I looked in my RSS feed to see 6 stories one right after the other about twitter. Good god. Tell Mr. Arrington to invest in companies that won’t actually lose money and go under and may become popular…. like, say, Twitter.

By: This Site is Not Yet Rated « Politalking

This Site is Not Yet Rated « Politalking — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:02:09 +0000

[...] Burnham has been routinely derided (here, here, here and here) for his reactionary idiocy. Not only that, but his Twitter account has been kidnapped too. The [...]

By: Årets Julepresang? « NONA: nettverket for oss som jobber med nettmedier

Årets Julepresang? « NONA: nettverket for oss som jobber med nettmedier — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:18:23 +0000

[...] julegave-ide fra Techcrunchs Mike Butcher: I etterkant av den engelske kulturministeren Andy Burnhams famøse uttalelser om behovet for å sensurere nettet satte Butcher likesågodt opp en Twitter-profil i kulturministeres [...]

By: Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:18:41 +0000

@Jim – there we go again will stupid personal attacks. Feel free to let us know who you are – coward!

By: Movie-style ratings for websites panned | csmonitor.com

Movie-style ratings for websites panned | csmonitor.com — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:10:06 +0000

[...] Burnham suggested the possibility on Saturday of such a set of guidelines on content and decency, setting off commenters and [...]

By: StevieB’s Shared Items - December 30, 2008 at Lost in Cyberspace

StevieB’s Shared Items - December 30, 2008 at Lost in Cyberspace — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:03:26 +0000

[...] UK government wants to regulate the Inter TubesDecember 28, 2008 [...]

By: Il governo italiano non è l’unico che vuole regolamentare Internet - Appunti Digitali

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:28:13 +0000

[...] in maniera più aperta e diretta oltremanica, che nel Belpaese; Mike Butcher di TechChrunc UK dice senza mezzi termini: With the economy collapsing, and the tech sector one of the few showing any signs of having some [...]

By: The battle for control of the Internet | ContraRISK

The battle for control of the Internet | ContraRISK — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:14:00 +0000

[...] with appropriate derision by most of those who actually know how the web works. UK TechCrunch even kidnapped his Twitter name in protest. There has been some speculation that Burnham is simply using the slack holiday period [...]

By: Does Andy Burnham's Twitter Account Belong To Him? | The Daily Dust

Does Andy Burnham's Twitter Account Belong To Him? | The Daily Dust — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:04:23 +0000

[...] account waiting for Andy Burnham After all the hullabaloo about regulating all the content on the internet at the weekend, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has been on the radar of many a UK Tech writer, none more so than [...]