I don’t usually dive into the political sector in this blog, however since this topic has a technology theme about it, I’m making an exception!<\/p>\n
In a recent newspaper interview, Andy Burnham, the secretary of state for the Department of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) expressed his desire to regulate the Internet. Mike Butcher over at TechCrunch<\/a> does a good job of writing up, so I won’t bore you with my musing on the subject. Mike’s article can be found here: UK government wants to regulate the Inter Tubes<\/a><\/p>\n Of course, we know that the same Government-owned civil servants were responsible for regulating<\/a> the UK banking system, look what happened to that. It’s probably fair to say that if the Government wants to regulate something, it has have a demonstrable track record and it really should finish what it started with the banking crisis.<\/p>\n Until the Government realise that regulation isn’t necessarily the answer, send your comments about regulating the Internet to Andy via his recently set up Twitter account<\/a> (30\/12\/2008 update:<\/strong> this account is now suspended, presumably awaiting the real Andy Burnham to claim it…how long will we have wait?)<\/p>\n Technorati Tags: Andy Burnham<\/a>, twitter<\/a>, TechCrunch<\/a>, Mike Butcher<\/a>, regulation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t usually dive into the political sector in this blog, however since this topic has a technology theme about it, I’m making an exception! In a recent newspaper interview, Andy Burnham, the secretary of state for the Department of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) expressed his desire to regulate the Internet. Mike Butcher over … Continue reading Regulate the Internet? The banks were regulated…<\/span>