Friday, March 26th, 2010
The Digital Economy Bill had so much potential to do good, such as improving the digital economy in Britain, but instead it has drawn much criticism (most of which has been blatantly and insultingly ignored).
The primary function of the bill is to restrict and hand over shockingly large amounts of power into the hands of the ISP’s and the government. You are guilty until proven otherwise and if you aresuspected of file-sharing enough times, you can be disconnected from the internet.
This is good for the music and film industry, who’s balls are being massaged by the government. However, it is very bad for the citizens of Britain, for anyone who cares about the internet or even freedom of information.
I thought the concept of a democracy was to ensure that citizens were innocent and maintained their rights until it was proven (in a court of law, for example) that they are guilty. I thought a democracy was supposed to protect and follow the masses. I’m either very wrong on what I think a democracy is, or Britain is moving away from it.
I’m not saying we have a Totalitarian State just yet, but we are certainly being nannied. The Digital Economy Bill has been rushed through the government without much consideration, probably while Mandelson has the dick of the music industry swirling around in his mouth. They want it into affect fast, especially since Labour may not be around after the elections (on an unrelated note, I wonder why that is).
Despite the criticisms, the protests and the laws which should prohibit this barbaric face fuck to the citizens from the government, the bill seems to be becoming law regardless. We are just citizens, a number in the system, the sheep who must be regulated and kept in line. We must bend over and take what the government gives us and it is for our own good.
When even MP’s have been seen protesting over this injustice, you have to ask yourself, when are we going to make the leap from Nanny State to Police State?
Every now and again, FN Hate steps out of the satirical wit bin and deals with important issues (even if to little affect). This post is one of them situations.
Originally posted on my blog.
Tags: Freedom, Gordon Brown, internet, Labour, News & Politics, Peter Mandelson
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
The astonishing news that ideas for Harry Enfield’s upcoming BBC show have been stolen comes as a bit of a shock. I know, I can’t believe Harry Enfield is making another television programme either.
I’m not going to claim to dislike the man, but his once-funny work is now dry, repetitive and boring. A harsh criticism and I’m willing to give the show a chance, but it seems to me that his attempt at reviving the dead isn’t exactly going to bring fresh, modern and new comedy, instead I’ll expect the same old thing that he’s been doing since the late 80’s.
Anyhow, I’m sure our incapable police force will bring justice to the thief.
Tags: Theft
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
During my daily (well, whenever I remember) perusal of the BBC news website, as I was trying to keep abreast of all of the world’s current events (okay, that’s a lie, I was looking for the latest Strictly Come Dancing news), I came across not one, not two, but THREE headlines that I completely misinterpreted until I clicked on them and read the accompanying article. So I thought I’d talk about them here, because I (FN) hate getting the wrong end of the stick. Please note that I am not in any way making light of any horrible events described.
1. Killed British soldier ’superb’
Call me dense, but when I first glanced at this headline, I thought it was saying something completely different to what it actually is. The story is of a young soldier who has been tragically killed during service, and was described by army people as “superb” at what he did and that. It is horrible to hear of so many young men and women losing their lives, of course. But when I read the headline, somehow in my head I spotted a phantom comma, so I actually interpreted it as “Killed British Soldier, superb!”, as if I had accidentally stumbled onto the Al Jazeera website, or Gordon Brown’s diary. Although if I’d have stumbled across Gordon Brown’s diary I doubt it would have said anything so sophisticated, instead it’s probably line after line of things like “I like chicken, I like liver, maeow mix maeow mix please deliver” and “Almost smiled today. Managed to nip that disaster in the bud before anyone noticed. BTW that Andrew Marr is a jug-eared cunt, he does my napper in. g2g, luv Gords xxx”
2. Man donates rape reward to victim
Now those of a less cuntish nature than me would probably guess straight away that this story is about a man who was rewarded with £10,000 after giving information that led to a rapist being convicted, and he kindly donated the 10 grand to the victim. A lovely story, that shows that there are still nice people out there somewhere. But my depraved mind instantly assumed that a man had been rewarded for raping someone. Come on, it’s an easy mistake to make. Isn’t it? No? Whoops. Still, thank god that criminals aren’t being rewarded with financial gain. It wouldn’t surprise me in Brown’s Britain (yeah fuck you Gordon, I’m tearing you a new bungpiece in this thing). £10,000 for a rape, £50,000 for the jackpot of murder, and about £5,000,000 for killing your little girl in Portugal and then pretending she was kidnapped. Allegedly.
3. Ministers ‘to cut drugs budget’
This one isn’t about death or rape so I can relax a little. This story turns out to be about ministers in Scotland cutting their budget for drug rehabiliation. But to me it sounds like the credit crunch is affecting even the top brass in Parliament and they’re having to cut down on their orders of wacky baccy. Now it would come as no surprise to me to find out that half of the current government are smacked off their tits, as surely people that seemingly braindead must be under the influence of mind altering substances? According to reports this week (not by us, by proper papers and websites. So sue them instead), Gordon (hi mate) is taking loads of pain pills just to get by, so following his (alleged) example, you’ve probably got half of the backbenchers on acid. And perhaps whenever I watched Prime Minister’s Questions (which was infrequent, I admit), and that Scottish dude who was Speaker constantly shouted “ORDER, ORDER!”, he wasn’t trying to get everyone to be quiet, but they were all high and had the munchies, and he was trying to get David Cameron to decide whether he was ordering a curry or a bit of egg foo yung.
Tags: Gordon Brown, headlines, News & Politics
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Some people could say that The Department of Health’s decision to spend £640,000 on an advertisement campaign to sponsor The Simpsons on Channel 4 is a great idea. However these people are also monumentally fucking wrong.
The cost to sponsor a once-funny popular adult cartoon is sure to burn a hole in ones pocket and when we are recovering from a severe economic downturn amidst proposed plans to abolish some forms of benefits for poorer citizens, who wouldn’t want us to practically shit money down a toilet?
The Simpsons are unhealthy fictional characters anyway. It has been a while since I managed to sit through an episode without breaking my aching straight face, but I can only assume Homer has not gone on a diet, started eating salad and cut down on alcohol consumption. To add to my point, The Simpsons has been sponsored by ‘Dominos Pizza’ in the past. This entire illogical idea should have been left in the absent minded head it came from.
How did the meeting come to conclude that shitting money down a drain would be a good idea? Did only two people turn up? One of them suffering with Alzheimer’s and the other suggesting sponsoring The Simpsons with a one-sentence argument, barely strung together on the premise that it is a popular show amongst the youth and young-adults of today’s Britain?
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