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Originally Posted by Webby

We are talking about the ramblings of Andy Burnham here - the UK Secretary of State for Culture :-) This is an idiot who would not know culture if it hit him in the face and is even more clueless about how the Internet operates.

He is known to open his stupid mouth and emit verbals over, eg reports which he has never read, and on a couple of occasions, before they had even been published.

We are talking 'nutjob' level - after all, he is another politician lacking any serious form of employment. So, no worries - it's biz as usual folks in a lunatic world :-)

This article does a pretty good job on him, and some of the comments/links are good also.

UK government wants to regulate the Inter Tubes
In the UK, there is a kind of equivalent known as “government minister opens mouth and inserts foot”. This weekend it was the turn of Andy Burnham, the secretary of state for the Department of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS), and as such supposed to take an interest in the Internet. Unfortunately his weekend interview with a newspaper betrayed the simple fact that he knows nothing at all about the internet.
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/12/28/...e-inter-tubes/