UK Tories want 10-year prison sentences for watching TV the wrong way
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1KFGD)
Back in 2010, on the last day of the last Labour government, a whipped Parliament voted in the terrible Digital Economy Act, after a short, embarrassingly illiterate debate whose howlers demonstrated just how little the MPs understood about the law they were voting in (the whole process was later revealed to be a fix from day one). (more")