Stop the biggest threat to Internet freedom. 2,008,307 have signed. Help us get to our new target of 3,000,000 Update: 10 February 2012 Amazing! We smashed our 2 million target as we delivered to key decision-makers in Brussels this week -- let's get to 3 million before the crucial parliamentary debates Posted: 25 January 2012 Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet.
Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse. It's outrageous -- governments of four fifths of the world’s people were excluded from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations and unelected bureaucrats have worked closely with corporate lobbyists to craft new rules and a dangerously powerful enforcement regime.
Big corporate interests are pushing hard for this, but the EU Parliament stands in the way. Our Data | Giving an European overview of public government data, existing mash-ups and policy initiatives. No to Age Banding. ... the neat sorting-out of books into age ranges, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table. CS Lewis (1952 essay On three ways of writing for children, collected in Of Other Worlds (latest edition, Harvest Books 2002) This website was set up by writers and other professionals who believe that the proposal to put an age-banding figure on books for children is ill-conceived and damaging to the interests of young readers.
Our statement (below) has been signed by 4,781 people, including 835 authors and illustrators. The growing concern shown by a wide range of experienced professional groups about the dangers of age-banding books is reflected in a number of statements of support for the No To Age Banding Campaign sent to this website. . CD Baby: a little CD store with the best new independent music. Bacula, the Network Backup Tool for Linux, Unix, and Windows.