READ: The Draft Royal Charter Plan Has Just Been Published
It can be changed by two thirds of Parliament.
UPDATE:
It seems the Tories want to try to regulate Guido:
“relevant publisher” means a person (other than a broadcaster) who publishes in the United Kingdom: a. a newspaper or magazine containing news-related material, or b. a website containing news-related material (whether or not related to a newspaper or magazine)”
@lisaocarroll Good luck with that.—
Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) February 12, 2013
Wankers!
“The draft Royal Charter”
Am I alone is misreading that as “The daft Royal Charter”?
(Eight attempts to get this highly controversíal comm/ent passed the m-o/d-b /ot – Cárry Hóle, you really are total c**t).
Hah !
Where’s the sanity clause?
There ain’t no Sanity Claus
Royal Charter means nothing: Look at the EU funded BBC.
If it goes through no more should the UK press be looked at. Simples.
Even now you get more relevant and accurate information abroad.
That is correct.
Interesting, a definition of publishing that can ignore where you “publish” on the basis of having a UK target audience. Leveson’s proposals didn’t have that much mission creep.
Cue a picture of Guido in the cross-hairs.
Whatever happened to a simple parliamentary majority? This ain’t the US Congress. Now what does this structure remind me of? Ah yes, The boys who put the powder on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Caractacus..
Were they just passing by?
No mention of how (or by whom) board members are to be appointed or how they are to be removed. Divine nomination, perhaps, or me and Guido in conclave until the white smoke appears at the rooftops.
At least two-thirds?, (to stop the Royal Charter) what kind of democracy is that!.
And these laws will have to cover the whole wide world ?? hahahahahahahaha
Twitter ye not wot ??
Of course, anything that has been written or published anywhere ever which might or might not upset Keith Vaz or Hugh Grant will be verboten!.
Simple answer don’t publish in the United Kindom.
MailOnline Guardian Online, Independant and telegraph could all just move their websites to any country in the world and publish there.
This sort of think is a 20th Centuary politicians answer to the 21st C web world.
What’s the definition of “news”? Breaking news, gossip, what? What about companies publishing their own PR and news. Is investigative reporting news? It appears in newspapers at the moment so it must be.
Stupid law created by stupid people for stupid reasons.
Guido, on this issue, I hope you read Matt Parris’s column last Saturday\/ \sounds like an anti-freedom-of-the-press stitich-up is underway.