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Supporter Meet-Up: CENSORSHIP - Learn, Discuss, and Campaign

Monday, 21 November 2011 at 19:00 (GMT)

London, United Kingdom

Supporter Meet-Up: CENSORSHIP - Learn, Discuss, and Campaign

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Censorship is rearing its ugly head on the UK Internet, and at the Open Rights Group, we're not happy about that. 

Copyright owners want censorship, because they don't want to take websites to court. They want websites like Pirate Bay banned, even though accessing these websites is completely legal.

Some MPs who don't like adults accessing pornography want all Internet accounts to have "adult content" banned by default, potentially putting data users "opting-in" onto a list of people at the ISP who want to access porn. The filters would have to be relatively weak, and would encourage parents to wrongly believe that children were being properly protected.

Censorship without legal backing is not only a violation of the freedom of speech, but justifies the actions of those who have genuinely broken the law. Once it is in place it, society will just battle over what to censor and ban next, rather than discussing how to deal with the problems itself.


 

Want to learn more? Discuss what we should do next? Or just jump into action?

Come along to our supporters meeting.

Monday 21st Nov, 7pm to 9pm

 


 

We'll be having some great (expert) speakers on the subject, an opportunity to discuss censorship and its problems/merits, and get more involved in ORG's actions and campaigns.

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Green Man
383 Euston Road,
NW1 3AU London
United Kingdom

Monday, 21 November 2011 at 19:00 (GMT)


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The digital age is transforming society: bringing us greater democracy, transparency and new creative possibilities. When these freedoms are under attack, the Open Rights Group is there to defend them. Founded in 2005 by 1,000 digital activists, ORG has become the UK’s leading voice defending freedom of expression, privacy, innovation, consumer rights and creativity on the net.

Getting into the political trenches in the UK and EU, we mobilise our supporters to stop bad laws. Working closely with other campaign groups, we lobby government and talk to the media whenever our rights are threatened.

ORG is a non-profit company funded by donors, mostly by people like you. We depend on regular contributions to run and win our campaigns.