censorship

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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Big Brother goes undercover……

March 3, 2009

Late last night, after the House of Commons had virtually emptied, a vote was taken on on a new clause of the Political Parties and Elections Bill right at the end of the Report Stage, sneaked in just before the Bill was rubber stamped by the Commons for the Third Reading. Just one MP queried [...]

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Another sexed-up secret?

March 1, 2009

Vince Cable has tabled a parliamentary question challenging the Treasury to reveal the contents of a Treasury dossier submitted in evidence to the Competition Appeal Tribunal last December by the Merger Action Group who were opposing the Lloyd’s – HBOS merger. The document set out the reasons why Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, and Lord Mandelson [...]

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Stock phrases for the new reality show……

February 18, 2009

Once we had game shows to evaluate and reward our knowledge of trivia, and competitive sports to reward our physical ability. Then came the reality show. The conventional wisdom is that audiences flock to reality shows because they enjoy the prurient sight of other people being humiliated. Thus conditioned, we have evolved into a mob [...]

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The flying Dutchman opens Pandora’s Box…….

February 13, 2009

Lord Pearson of Rannoch invited the Dutch Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders to present his controversial film Fitna to the House of Lords. Highly regarded amongst some factions, Fitna is a film attempting to explain the divisions in society caused by the Koran and Islamists. Wilders alleges that the Koran has ‘proven’ links with Holy Wars and terrorism. Many Moslems and non-Moslems have described Fitna as anti-Islamic and warn that it will incite [...]

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