How A UK Fax Campaign Helped Preserve Privacy 15
Neil Watson writes: "An interesting story on how some computer users created a website to enable citizens to fax their federal representative (MP) to comment on a controversial privacy bill." And it's encouraging, since they actually got the Home Office to blink.
wow (Score:1)
Not only that but Slashdot contributed (Score:4, Interesting)
Wow- real democracy! And in the semi-police state of the UK. Who'd have thought?
EFF Action Center (Score:4, Informative)
Re:If I wanted to be a fascist dictator... (Score:2)
Re:If I wanted to be a fascist dictator... (Score:2)
Re:If I wanted to be a fascist dictator... (Score:1)
(I snail-mailed my MP)
Re:If I wanted to be a fascist dictator... (Score:2)
[OT] On the acronym "MP" (Score:1)
Compared to any of these:
Write your congressman
Write your senator or congressperson
Write your congressional representative
Write your congressman or congresswoman
Write your congresscritter
Unfortunately, since so many of us associate "MC" with rap music, my usage probably won't catch on.
Re:[OT] On the acronym "MP" (Score:1)
Yo! MC Bush in da (White) house!
:-D
Re:[OT] On the acronym "MP" (Score:1)
Re:[OT] On the acronym "MP" (Score:1)
In what sense is an MP a "federal representative"? (Score:2, Informative)