He did far better on Newstalk than he did last night.

Eagerly waiting for someone to shoe horn “No Sh1T Sherlock” into a comment….

Leave the internet alone – if its not broke, dont fix it!!!

A major victory for the “Stop Ireland SOPA” group!

Very pleased.

Didn’t hear him. Did anyone get the sense that he might be preparing to move back a bit on this?

To me it underlines the need to get those phone calls into our local TDs and senators demanding they oppose this MO and look for a full debate with legislation put before the Dail if that’s what it takes.

This him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_mitchell.jpg

2o minutes talk wher he can fob off some clueless tds isn’t useless

We stand back & watch these jokers implement silly laws & make ridiculous decisions but there is no way there limiting our freedom, were a republic, we won our freedom & to introduce this law would be going against everything for

Were trying to create ireland a centre of excellence for IT & computing..this would be a big blow to that idea..you cannot censor the freedom of information

is useless

this kind of backtracking presented as a sincere ‘response’ to public concern is a sham

the whole idea should not have been presented until everybody:
a. knew what they were talking about
b. had thought the issues through
c. were able to address them in a meaningful manner

this is simply an attempt to win back lost votes

For those interested, in the Newstalk link above, Sherlock starts up at 44:25, with TJ McIntyre preceding that at 39:20.

Dear Junior Minister Sherlock,

You had better ban second-hand book shops too, since the poor copyright-holder (i.e. the Publisher) only gets money once – when the book is sold as new. Therefore all second-hand and subsequent sales of books must be equally as wrong and should be banned forthwith! Or you could leave both the second-hand book market and the Internet alone and stay doing what you do best, just as soon as you find out what that is.

Yours sincerely,

A Member of the Irish Electorate who put you and your ilk into Government.

Notice, we need to balance the rights of copyright holders with those of Internet users..

The copyright holders being the whale record industry pushing for the regulation, NOT the artists whose intellectual property is being shared.
They take down what may be good for the artists, like attacking Megaupload for trying to launch megabox and give artists the record labels share of the profits..

Stop the pirates! Destroy the recording industry and give artists the rights to their own work!!

When even yet unpublished and yet undefined legislation gets this much opposition, you know you have a movement that is strong and can really change politicians minds in our favour.

Even the mention of internet censorship creates outrage and that’s a wonderful thing.

Great work folks!

This is not going to be a very imaginative post but here goes – Dear Mr Sherlock, please please please F%#k right off, thanking you in advance. Sincerely yours,
Stupid Voter

I dont get it. He basically says that they “cannot put a blocking mechanism or start monitoring an individual’s behaviour”, does this not suggest that the ISPs will not be allowed to block sites, even if they contain copyrighted material?
If so, what exactly is this legislation going to allow!? If it allows the court to order a site be blocked can’t the ISPs just say no. Will this mean that the copyright holders are more likely to go after the people behind putting this data online instead? Finally, why does Eircom Blocking Pirate bay, surely they can go to Europe to object, no?

I suspect a bit of pressure from the public isn’t always a waste of time. We have to keep it up though. The dolts in the Dail dont understand much other than what gets them their over inflated pay checks so I recommend contacting them directly and telling them why exactly this bill is such a bad idea.

im not the brightest when it comes to this stuff but does it mean that people who access illigal child abuse sights will be caught easier and does it stop abuse sights like this. if so im all for it. but if it does none of those things i mentioned then should they not put this much work into completly stopping them. and before anyone thumbs down please keep in mind i had mentioned at beggining that i am not that knowledgeable about this stuff. thank you

I e mailed Stephen Donnelly about this yesterday and he brought it up in the Dail today ! He is a independent TD in Greystones and talks a lot of sense. If there were more people like him in the Dail we would all be better off !

I hope he gets around to do something about the 84 bus route to Newcastle which looks like it will be cancelled soon of which i and a lot of people in the Newcastle/Kilcoole/Greytones area rely on to get to work/college/school because there is no other transport in this area… This route is getting cancelled because the government has cut subsidy to the CIE and the 84 route will be cut. The government are trying to get people to leave cars at home and use the public transport but are cutting buses, this makes no sense to me !

Sean Sherlock said that he absolutely does not intend to allow websites to be blocked or people’s freedom to be restricted.
Yet, in his latest post on FB (http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=312946472076545&id=185032148201312) he acknowledges that the whole reason for the SI is to allow the three-strikes and website blocking injuctions that EMI etc. were seeking against UPC.
Contradiction?

The principle that the ISP will look over your shoulder with the entertainment industry looking over its shoulder and whispering admonitions in its ear is only a step away from having your emails, tweets, SMS read by the same industry. and if the entertainment industry get away with this many more restrictions will be imposed on users in time.