Nick Clegg and Julian Huppert are Internet heroes

By Mary Reid | Tue 18th June 2013 - 1:47 pm

The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) has shortlisted both Nick Clegg and Julian Huppert for it’s Internet Hero award for 2013.

And why? – for the role they both played in preventing the communications data bill from reaching the statute books.

The other two nominees are Edward Snowdon, who was the whistleblower on the PRISM project, and Spamhaus, an IT security organisation who fought off a major denial of service attack earlier this year.

ISPA Secretary-General Nicholas Lansman noted that the Internet Hero award is “one of the most anticipated categories” at the ISPAs.

Given what has happened in the last year, it is no surprise that surveillance dominates this year’s shortlists.

Thank you to members of the public for their suggestions and I look forward to finding out who wins on the night.

The ISPA awards also have a Villain of the Year category, for which the Home Secretary Theresa May has been nominated, along with PRISM itself.

The winners will be announced on 11th July.

* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.

4 Comments

Alistair 18th Jun '13 - 8:17pm

I bet IPSA members still donate cash to the Tories though.
Stuart Mitchell 18th Jun '13 - 10:44pm

I clicked the link to the ISPA website and Kaspersky flashed up a red angry box telling me that it had intercepted a malicious Trojan. I nominate Kasperky as my Internet Hero and ISPA as my Internet Villain.
Paul King 19th Jun '13 - 12:52pm

I AM, I SUPPOSE, ON THE LEFT OF THE PARTY, AND THEREFORE FIND CERTAIN COALITION GOVERNMENT DECISIONS AND ACTIONS U NPALATABLE. THE SO-CALLED BEDROOM TAX and the proliferating of foodbanks put me right on the spot. If only the belated action on tax-avoidance had come sooner! Then we really could say that the cuts to incomes of poor people are not only unjust but also unnecessary…..

Paul King, Chesterfield.
Daniel Henry 20th Jun '13 - 1:06pm

Well deserved by both.

Even Liberator praised Nick for continuing to speak out against the Snooper’s Charter, despite it’s proponents opportunistically using the Woolwich tragedy to try and rally support for it.

And Julian continues to be a force to be reckoned with in Parliament, no matter how hard the incompetent fools from both sides try to shout him down!