Tell Dave protests: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/britains-web-monitoring-plan-draws-comparisons-to-1984-and-kafka/2012/04/02/gIQAbNB5qS_blog.html
This month, to protest against new internet monitoring plans, twitter users utilised hashtag #TellDaveEverything. The protest took the form of listing mundane events that they thought they should tell the prime minister about to make the point that the new laws would ‘snoop into everything’. Coverage from CBC Canada captured examples.
There are other examples of protest emails if you search #telldaveeverything http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/04/uk-tell-dave-everything-protest-in-morning-trends.html
Give it back George – drop the charity tax: http://giveitbackgeorge.org/
This graphic http://giveitbackgeorge.org/2012/04/02/give-it-back-george-campaign-explained-infographic/ explains the origins of the campaign in relation to caps on charitable giving announced in the 2012 budget by Chancellor George Osborne.
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