At yesterday's Opentech, I participated in a panel about the need for a UK version of RFF — not a chapter or an affiliate, but a made-in-Britain civil liberties org that works strictly on technology. The other panelists stressed that previous efforts to start membership orgs in the UK have fallen flat due to lack of funding, and this led NTK's Danny O'Brien to create a Pledgebank Pledge:
I will create a standing order of 5 pounds per month to support an organisation that will campaign for digital rights in the UK but only if 1000 other people will too.
Would you give a fiver a month to create and sustain a British technology liberties group that represented your interests the next time a data-retention act, a filesharing lawsuit, or a copyright term extension came along? I sure would.
