Originally published February 23 2006
British government's internet terrorism policy defeated in the House of Lords
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The House of Lords have won a narrow victory over the government by defeating its proposal to allow police to remove terrorism-related webpages without the permission of judges.
The government's original plans would have allowed police to act after deciding information on the Internet is related to terrorism.
But this was changed by the House of Lords so that police would have to ask judges before telling Internet service providers to remove Web pages, according to the BBC.
The government was defeated by 148-147 vote.
The bill received a third reading and will now return to the House of Commons.
Last month, the House of Lords embarrassed the government by rejecting key parts of the controversial identity card plan, voting to block the ID cards bill until the costs have been scrutinized by a parliamentary watchdog, the National Audit Office, and by making it voluntary for people to enroll on the national ID register.
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