After reading http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/29/carter_net_neut/ and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/30/isp_carter_music_policing/, I got a sudden urge to write to the idiot that is promoting this stuff:

Lord Carter of Barnes
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW

Re: Your quaint ideas about the internet

Dear Lord Carter of Barnes,

On behalf of everyone who actually understands The Internet (it’s not actually a series of tubes), those who oppose dictatorship in its many forms, and the fair people who don’t have their head stuck so far up the outmoded, antediluvian and superannuated backsides of the music industry that they can no longer see sense; I would like to respectfully say ‘Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on’.

Consider this: you are attempting to push laws through to support an industry that is flailing around in its death throes. You are also going to be solely responsible for putting the United Kingdom on a par with China in terms of Internet freedom; or lack thereof.
I realise you have no problem sleeping at night while considering pushing for these things to happen; with respect however, I believe your ability to sleep at night is merely because you are so out of touch with reality that you shouldn’t really be in charge of your own sleeping arrangements.

Milord, I put it to you that perhaps you should ask your children (or if you don’t have any, someone elses children; and at that, children who actually have used the internet) to explain to you the freedoms that the internet gives people in an already heavily oppressed society; and why enforcing ridiculous laws undermine its very nature and cast questions on the very possibility of any further technological advancement on these shores.
Do you really want the legacy you are remembered for throughout history to be as the man who wasn’t strong enough to see sense or find the truth, and let a dying business ruin the future for generations of people?

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully