Stand.org.uk
Title
Stand: Defining Digital Freedoms In The UK
Description
Stand.org.uk is a group of volunteers who originally came together in 1998 in a vain attempt to fix the worst aspects of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act. Backed up by a list of over 3000 supporters, we disseminate information and motivate the interested about issues around privacy and censorship, particularly with respect to the Internet.
Having succeeded in motivating people to educate their MPs about some of the more ill-informed parts of RIP — and, unfortunately, been less successful with others — we lay dormant for a while. You might say we sulked.
Well, not quite. We decided to reuse the web-based Fax-An-MP engine we'd built for the RIP campaign and allow anyone to use it to contact their MP on any issue they saw fit. Hence FaxYourMP.com was born. It's now on its way to sending its 50,000 fax to MPs. We look forward to the day when we can turn it off.
