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<title>Adopt An MP - About Us</title>
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<td valign="MIDDLE" colspan="3"><BR><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+4"><b>STAND</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+1">.ORG.UK</font></B> <img src="images/ClrPixel.gif" width="100" height="1"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+5">@</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+3">dopt
an MP</font><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2"><B>CAMPAIGNING FOR SAFE E-COMMERCE LEGISLATION</b><br> </td>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+1"><b>ABOUT US</b></font><BR><BR>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
<b>Who are you lot? </b>
<br><br>
We'd love to tell you that we're a terrifyingly well-organised
political strike force, whose members have years of political experience
fighting injustice in the jungles of South America. But we'd be lying.
<br><br>
Actually, we're about thirty or so individuals (of various political
hues), who happen to spend enough time on the Net to worry about it being
ruined by a bunch of ... well-meaning... bureaucrats.
<br><br>
If you want to probe us for more details, you can find a list of e-mail
addresses and home pages at the bottom of this page.
<br><br>
<b>Why are you doing this?</b>
<br><br>
Because we genuinely think that having an informed political
infrastructure helps prevent idiocies in technological policy. We don't
think this law makes any sense. We wanted to impress on as many
people as possible how deeply Net users feel on this topic. Oh, and
we knew how to hack up a database of MPs.
<br><br>
<b> What am I going to be asked to do?</b>
<br><br>
You want us to reveal our secret plans? Oh, all right.
<br><br>
About six months ago, we naively telephoned a bunch of
professional pressure groups and asked: how do you stop dumb
legislation? They said, well, what you don't do is to drown politicians
in rabid letter-writing and enormous piles of signatures. It is the
parliamentary equivalent of spam: politicians route around it. Instead,
you should get one key letter to each MP - from a constituent -
calmly explaining the issues. After that, other voters can write a
simple postcard, saying "I agree with Mr Foo's communication of the
18th of Bar". That gently lets a sizeable proportion of the body politic
know that a lot of sensible, knowledgeable, voting types are worried.
<br><br>
The core of the @doption campaign is helping constituents to
organise those letters.
<br><br>
Because the Government have yet to release their crypto proposals
in any detail (even though in the last public statement, the DTI stated
that they wanted responses back by the 14th December 1998!), we're
holding off on telling people to send that initial letter straight away.
Once the proposals are public, we'll do our best to disseminate the
details and ramifications of its contents, so that @doptors can
decide for themselves how to write to their MP. Then we'll make sure
any new @doptees get the right values of Foo and Bar for follow-up
postcards.
<br><br>
That's it. We're working on some fun technology to help make all of
this easier, but that's the dull truth.
<br><br>
We thought that if you'd read this far, you could probably take it
without all the sound-bites and rhetoric.
<br><br>
<b> What's the fun technology?</b>
<br><br>
Oh come on - you want some surprises, don't you?
<br><br>
<b> Are you going to spam me?</b>
<br><br>
Yeah, right. That'll help the cause no end.
<br><br>
Seriously, you will receive an e-mail when we add new information to
the site, when the proposals are released, or the political situation
changes, or your MP does something utterly marvellous or
mind-bogglingly stupid. But both we and the parliamentary system
work very slowly, so don't expect much. Once a week would be an
startling intense period of activity.
<br><br>
If your MP has a large number of fellow @doptors, you might get an
invite to be on a local, private discussion list. If you join that, you
may receive more e-mails, but that's really up to you and your fellow
citizens. We'll just supply the tech.
<br><br>
Unsubscribing from any announcement list will be obvious. If you
have any problems, e-mail us at [email protected] if you have any
problems.
<br><br>
(We've got a horrible suspicion that we'll get more spam from putting
our e-mail addresses here on this page than you'll ever get from us.)
<br><br>
<b> I don't really understand this crypto stuff - is it really as bad as
you say?</b>
<br><br>
Well, we would say this, but yes, we think so. Cryptography is a complex,
technical subject and information on it can quickly get bogged down in
esoteric mathematica, but we hope that if you spend a little time sniffing
around our external links, you'll get a feel for the social impact of
crypto controls. Don't be afraid to ask if you're confused: if you are,
then someone else will be, and we should do our best to help both of you.
We're not crypto geniuses, but we know people who are, and we spend a lot
of time pestering them until even we understand. Ask away.
<br><br>
<b> Are there any arguments for the new legislation?</b>
<br><br>
No! Or at least, we've yet to hear one that doesn't fall apart after the
briefest consideration. We mean this: if someone can supply us with
some documents that support the new law, we'll be happy to link to
it. From the front page.
<br><br>
<b> Then why is this government trying to pass this law?</b>
<br><br>
We wish we knew. A lot of people whose opinions we respect say
that the government is bowing to pressure from the secret services,
who want to encourage technology that would let them remotely
monitor commercial and personal traffic without legal controls. It's
true that this would be one of the effects of a government-supported
key escrow regime. But that's by-the-by. The proposals are stupid
entirely on their own merits, without this unpleasant justification.
<br><br><b>
Are you connected to any political party?</b>
<br><br>
Nope. Malcolm has been instrumental in running CACIB for a while,
which is a non-partisan anti-censorship group. Danny thought about
joining the Labour Party the day after the last election, then went off
the idea when they threatened to throw out the Downing Street cat
and has never trusted them since. <br><br>
We're so single issue it hurts.
<br><br>
Can I join in?
<br><br>
Please. Let us know if you'd like to do more than @dopt your MP.
We're at <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> As ever.
<br><br>
<b> What does STAND stand for?</b>
<br><br>
It stands for itself.<BR><BR></font>
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<A HREF="http://www.fipr.org/rip">All about RIP</a><BR><br>
<A HREF="http://www.fipr.org/rip/RIPcountermeasures.htm">RIP Countermeasures</A><BR><BR>
<A HREF="commentary.html">Three Minute RIP Guide</a><BR><br>
<A HREF="ripnotes/">Our Detailed RIP Guide</a><BR><br>
<A href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030621160841/http://www.faxyourmp.com/">Fax your MP</a><BR><BR>
<A href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030621160841/http://www.stand.org.uk/">Home</a><BR><br>
<B>Previous Campaigns:</B><BR><BR>
<A HREF="dearjack/photostory.html">Operation Dear Jack</a><BR><br>
<A HREF="select.html">Select Committee submission</a><BR><br>
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We would also like to thanks <A
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Nursery and School in North London</A> for doing such a great job teaching
Tom's kids.
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