Rejected petition Prevent the censorship of online adult material by the Digital Economy Bill

The Digital Economy Bill sets out to censor areas of the internet which the British Government deem aimed at an adult audience, except not only for children, but for all. We must prevent this form of censorship, an illiberal ideal that has no place within a functional Western Democracy.

More details

The Digital Economy Bill has been put forward as a means to prevent children from accessing online adult material. In doing so, the Bill will block access to websites that host adult content, those which do not prescribe to the guidelines set out by the BBFC, to everybody. This Bill has the potential to censor large parts of the internet to the entire British population. We are slowly seeing our personal freedoms taken away; please sign this petition to try and prevent this fact from worsening.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/174167

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 7 December 2016
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.