Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
It's that time of year again where MP's start asking the Government how much of our money it is spending on parties where civil servants photocopy their arses, and the great wine cellar of the state gets raided by people wanting to get pissed. Yes, that's right, it's Christmas time! First on the list this year for mentioning their budgets is, Sion Simon (yes two posts in a row about him). The Minister...
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Digital Economy Bill wasn’t designed to appease the people Sion Simon, at the DCMS’ recent Cabinet forum, called “web libertarians”. Instead, it serves two main purposes... Protecting from digital evaporation the economic contribution the “creative industries” make to the UK - estimated by the government to comprise four percent (£16 ...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Labour Minister with responsibility for broadcasting, Sion Simon faced a Commons committee (NI Affairs) for the first time on Wednesday. He did not exactly come over as a man who was on top of his brief. And he got gently chided by the chair for having read the material that the committee gathered in Northern Ireland last week (a basic requirement, I would have thought).
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Anti-bullying? Anti-cyber-bullying? Anti-homophobic bullying? All the good ideas are taken. Maybe I could just symbolically apologise for something Nestyn, Saturday night. Feel like an outcast. In 2003, 500 people watched me switch on the winterval lights (theme: Glad Tidings from Iraq). This year, 20 turned up, including my agent and a couple of tramps. By the time I'd said a few words about Christmas...
Denverstrope (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I've just noticed where the inspiration, if it can be called that, for Labour's truly pathetic attack video on David Cameron and George Osborne came from. It was this witty cartoon by Peter Brookes of the Times which was published last Wednesday. It's also occurred to me who must be responsible for it. It's got to be that juvenile horse's arse, the "Right Honourable" Sion Simon, MP. After...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
With all of the concern over the proposed bill in the UK to kick file sharers off the internet based on accusations (not convictions), some have been raising concerns about innocent users kicked off the internet. Culture Minister Sion Simon has hit back at those claims insisting that the innocent won't be kicked offline . Really. Trust us. Or something like that. The main reason he claims that it won't...
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GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Gamers’ Voice , the pro-gaming Facebook group set up by West Bromwich East Labour MP Tom Watson, has drawn support from another pair of UK politicians. Watson, who setup the group in response to comments made by Leicester East Labour MP Keith Vaz, invited Sion Simon, Minister for Creative Industries, and Shadow Minister Ed Vaizey to check out the online group, which they both did. Both left...
GamesIndustry.biz (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Labour's Sion Simon and the Conservative's Ed Vaizey have both pledged their support to action group Gamers' Voice. The group was set up by Labour MP for West Bromwich East Tom Watson this week, to give a voice to games players in the corridors of power – it already has over 12,500 members on its Facebook page. "Sion and Ed are a little bit different to other MPs. They both have responsibilities...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
UK.gov denies innocent will be hit by filesharing regime The Register Forthcoming laws to reduce the level of peer-to-peer copyright infringement with threats of disconnection will affect “hardly anybody, other than the most serious and egregious recidivistic offenders”, according to culture minister Sion Simon. The Digital Economy Bill, to be announced in the Queen’s Speech next...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
How many people in the English speaking world would have the first clue what these words mean ? Forthcoming laws to reduce the level of peer-to-peer copyright infringement with threats of disconnection will affect "hardly anybody, other than the most serious and egregious recidivistic offenders", according to culture minister Sion Simon. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/simon_filesharing/...
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
In a follow up to yesterday’s news of a brewing Boss battle between Labour MPs Keith Vaz and Tom Watson over Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the BBC has a short video online which captures the exchange between the two in Parliament yesterday. A GP transcription of the video follows: Keith Vaz: At midnight tonight, a new and violent videogame called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is to be released....
computing (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Parliamentary reporter, Computing , Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 15:51:00 Filesharers will not be affected by proposed legislation for more than two years, according to Tories Following business secretary Peter Mandelson’s controversial pledge to disconnect illegal filesharers last week, shadow culture media minister Jeremy Hunt has claimed that proposed legislation will not see them penalised...
The Register (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Simon says Forthcoming laws to reduce the level of peer-to-peer copyright infringement with threats of disconnection will affect "hardly anybody, other than the most serious and egregious recidivistic offenders", according to culture minister Sion Simon.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Yesterday we reported on British MP and reputed liar Keith Vaz, who pursued his long-running agenda against videogames by complaining about Modern Warfare 2 's controversial airport scene and promising to bring the issue up in parliament. Today, Vaz was righteously pummeled by fellow Labour MP Tom Watson, who said politicians should be encouraging, not attacking, the videogame industry. "It carries...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
• Keith Vaz says he is shocked by level of violence • Tom Watson says MPs should support UK game industry Two Labour MPs locked horns today over the imminent release of a widely anticipated violent video game. Keith Vaz, the chairman of the home affairs select committee, said Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 contained such "scenes of brutality" that its makers had placed warnings...
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