To coincide with the start of the London Conference on Cyberspace, eleven organisations and experts on freedom of expression and privacy online have today written to the Foreign Secretary stating that Britain's desire to promote these ideals internationally is being hampered by domestic policy.

Pointing to UK policies including proposals for greater controls over what legal material people are allowed to access on the Internet in the UK, for example through Claire Perry MP's ongoing inquiry into online child protection, Open Rights Group, Index on Censorship, Privacy International, Evgeny Morozov, Heather Brooke and others (full list below) argue that Britain's desire to promote these ideals internationally is being undermined by domestic policy.

Brett Soloman, Executive Director, Access,
Dr Agnes Callamard, Executive Director, Article 19
Cory Doctorow, Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jonathan Heawood, Director, English PEN
Evgeny Morozov, author, 'The Net Delusion'
Andrew Puddephatt, Director, Global Partners
Heather Brooke, author, 'The Revolution will be Digitised'
John Kampfner, CEO, Index on Censorship
Tony Curzon Price, Editor-in-Chief, openDemocracy
Jim Killock, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
Simon Davies, Director, Privacy International"