Law and sausages: how Not to Legislate for the Digital economy. A round up of issues around the notorious Digital economy Bill (now Act) and some thoughts on its lasting legacy of e-democracy and social media participation.

1. Law and Sausages: How Not to Legislate for The Digital Economy Lilian Edwards Professor of Internet Law Sheffield University [email_address] Pangloss: http://blogscript.blogspot.com/ @lilianedwards on Twitter

7. Meanwhile elsewhere in the forest.. "trapped in a second tier of citizenship, denied what I increasingly think of as a fundamental freedom in the modern world: to be part of the internet and technology revolution". Gordon Brown, March 2010

8. 2 nd issue: Democratic deficit? L Whitty, 3r Reading HL on lobbying _ I regret to say that during the course of our consideration of the Bill, we have seen one of the worst examples in my memory of the political parties being captured by a producer interest. That applies not only to the Government and the bringing forward of the Bill, but to the opposition Front Benches as well. .. despite a few ameliorations, this is still a bad Bill. It is bad for the digital rights holders to press their interests in this way, when there are alternatives, and it is bad for the Government to risk alienation of a very significant part of the population by enforcing these measures .

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11. The new sousveillance?