How to talk to your MP

[pozorvlak]

Yesterday, the excellent Open Rights Group (roughly, the British equivalent of the EFF) ran a workshop on talking to your MP face-to-face. There was particular emphasis on opposing the incredibly evil Digital Economy Bill (tl;dr: if anyone in your household is accused of filesharing, they can extrajudicially suspend your 'net connection without

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[susannahf]

I would like to add:
a good relationship with a good constituency MP is not something to be sniffed at. Sometimes voting for the guy who'll fight your corner is a good plan.
Speaking as someone whose parents have a damn good constituency MP, who has helped us out more times than I can count. He may be a dull backbencher who rarely says anything of note in Parliament, but he can sure as hell kick up a stink behind the scenes when people need help.
Sadly, he will probably lose his seat this year, as it's a semi-marginal and he's Labour...

[fanf]

rmc28 is planning to tell David Howarth more about how arbitrary and incorrect copyright infringement accusations can be. He had not heard of the research at the University of Washington that revealed how dodgy the MPAA's p2p detection mechanisms are, to the extent that it's possible for a malicious person to frame anyone of sharing proprietary content - even printers and wireless access points. See http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/

[pozorvlak]

Good one, ta!

[wholepint]

Good one. I've been in touch with my MP over a couple of campaigns we were running at the Refugee Council in the last year, and was pleasantly surprised to get a detailed reply in response. As one of them broke a number of those (very true) rules up there ( I was testing our 'email your MP' system for a supporter and didn't have time to edit the standard text) I was very surprised by that!