censorship

Epic Dickwaddery at the New Statesman

July 23, 2011
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Public Libraries Censoring Bloggers.

February 3, 2011

Censorship of the press is considered a heinous crime best avoided even by those political parties who would cheerfully see the UK emulate North Korea in all manner of things. Can you imagine the outcry if Oxfordshire County Council formally announced that no longer could you read the Guardian in their public libraries because they [...]

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Libertarianism and the Doctrine of Free Speech.

August 18, 2009

Nothing exercises the Libertarian sense of impending moral outrage so much as those two little words ‘Free Speech’. It is said by some to be the very definition of Libertarianism. I consider myself to be a Libertarian; I believe that I possess a free will and that I should be free to do whatever I [...]

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Another blogger threatened…..

April 18, 2009

Short on time to write this morning, and missed this one during the week whilst I was travelling……… Blogger Mike Morgan is standing firm against demands from Goldman Sachs that he close down his web site. Note, not remove a particular posting that they object to, but close down the entire site. The law firm [...]

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Four webmasters jailed

April 17, 2009

              A Swedish court has convicted four men linked to the popular Pirate Bay file-sharing site of breaking Sweden’s copyright law. It bills itself as “the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker” and is ranked as the 108th most popular website by Alexa Internet. The Stockholm district court sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm [...]

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The Great Firewall of Australia.

March 18, 2009

The Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy, has previously claimed that his proposed Internet censorship regime was focused on blocking ‘illegal sites’.  Until now. At a Senate committee on Monday, Conroy said that the trial of the filter now underway was based on blocking ‘illegal sites’, but the censorship of other legal content would be [...]

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British Slag and the Decline of Cole.

March 8, 2009

Ashley Cole needs his right to privacy and threatens the Sun newspaper just before being arrested for using abusive language! The philandering husband of Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole has threatened to sue the Sun newspaper for invasion of his privacy if they dare to print photographs of him and the ‘classy’ woman’ he was [...]

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