Comments on: “Your Freedom” is a failure. How to make it better

By: Neil Turner's Blog « Miscellany

Neil Turner's Blog « Miscellany — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:11:34 +0000

[...] ideas about laws that need changing or repealing. It’s a good idea but badly executed, and Chris Applegate sums it up much better than I can, so read his blog [...]

By: Extremes of stupidity: StartUp Britain vs. The March26 Anarchists « crunkfish.com

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:21:38 +0000

[...] jazz may be considered exciting (in some circumstances), when it comes to policy this approach has, yet again, been resoundingly rejected and ridiculed. The public obviously don’t share the [...]

By: The PDA/Technology newsbucket: Twitter’s billion, Phorm’s millions, Jobs re iPhone and more

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:08:01 +0000

[...] “Your Freedom” is a failure. How to make it better >> qwghlm.co.uk…and then Chris Applegate takes its fundamental design philosophy apart. More thought needed. [...]

By: The Freedom Bill: this time the consultation is for real, but is it better? | Mark Pack

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:37:53 +0000

[...] p.105.112. (For three other interesting perspectives on the site see Simon Dickson, Paul Evans and Chris Applegate. I think Chris would set the barrier too high with the suggestion that people should be forced to [...]

By: eddie

eddie — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:41:13 +0000

I just read your earlier reply;

I don’t think I am being elitist by thinking that people ought to research the laws they want to change, before proposing changing them…

And agree. But I still think a full-of-crap site more accurately reflects and represents us :( and fixing that might just require a shed-load more legislation.

By: eddie

eddie — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:28:13 +0000

Sorry about the spelling. Couldn’t see the screen for spittle-flecks :-(

By: eddie

eddie — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:27:25 +0000

Many people are moronic nutcases, but why do you fell the need to hand-hold them to pretend otherwise. Thesae paople also vote. Would you like to hand-jold them in the ballot box? I read a comment upthread that it’s not real democracy, letting real people have opinions. And no, ideas are not forced into these people by the media, any more than your ideas are forced on us here.

It’s also kinda ironic that this is coming from a blogger. Do you agree with the old-media ‘professional journalists’ whining about losing their gate-keeper status?

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:47:47 +0000

Some valid and interesting criticisms of the design of the website, muddled in with your frustration that the great unwashed don’t hold the views that you think they ought to.

Your argument that a post suggesting that the UK should leave the EU ought to be deleted because such an action is “totally incompatible with our international obligations” is a difficult one to sustain. Surely our international obligations are whatever we determine them to be? A citizen who wishes the UK to leave the EU may or may not be an “idiot”, but it is perfectly legitimate to hold such a view and to express it on a state website which is seeking views on restrictive or bureaucratic laws to repeal. Is it possible to reasonably hold the view that membership of the EU is restrictive or bureaucratic? Of course. Is it possible for laws to be passed or repealed which would cause the UK to leave the EU? Of course.

Not your most liberal post, Chris!

By: Mae Hywel Williams yn gofyn am Your Freedom Cymraeg | Hacio'r Iaith

Mae Hywel Williams yn gofyn am Your Freedom Cymraeg | Hacio'r Iaith — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:57:57 +0000

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By: Le gouvernement britannique mise sur le crowdsourcing | Akostic.com

Le gouvernement britannique mise sur le crowdsourcing | Akostic.com — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:41:11 +0000

[...] Applegate fait parti de ces blogueurs sceptiques et propose, dans son article intitulé « Your Freedom » is a failure. How to make it better, un certain nombre d’améliorations à mettre en place pour élever le débat. Parmi [...]

By: We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #31 / we are social

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #31 / we are social — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:06:34 +0000

[...] one of many in the We Are Social team who is not shy in coming forward, has blogged a detailed critique of the site on his personal blog, which is worth a [...]

By: The Freedom Bill: this time the consultation is for real, but is it better?

The Freedom Bill: this time the consultation is for real, but is it better? — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:21:45 +0000

[...] three other interesting perspectives on the site see Simon Dickson, Paul Evans and Chris Applegate. I think Chris would set the barrier too high with the suggestion that people should be forced to [...]