Internet censorship

Wiki Popbitch.

November 29, 2010

The Blogosphere is gorging itself on the Wikileaks banquet this morning; a triumph of style over substance. The Cuisine Minceur of the electorate’s fight for transparency from our political masters. Wikileaks is a masterpiece in media manipulation. It proclaims itself the fearless warrior against a lack of accountability and ‘truth’ from – primarily – the [...]

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Big Brother is still out there

June 1, 2010

In amongst all the excitement of the new coalition government, it’s important to still remember that much of Labour’s big brother legislation is still active. The awful Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (or RIPA), which sounds like it controls and limits the state’s ability to spy on us, actually empowers vast swathes of jobsworth prodnoses [...]

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Watching the Defectives.

May 2, 2009

In May 2007, along with several thousand other people, I was invited to join in the search for young Madeleine McCann. The past two years has been an extraordinary journey, largely conducted on-line, with the occasional physical foray to Prai da Luz. I have learnt a great deal, of human beings, and human responses, to [...]

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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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Do not ask for whom the bell tolls…….

April 6, 2009

It tolls for thee, yeoman of the land of Magna Carta. Whilst you slumbered last night, and in the many months before, the sinister shape of Directive 2006/24/EC crept into your lives and stole your freedom and your privacy. Would it have made any difference if this burglar had worn a striped jumper and carried [...]

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Putting the boot in.

March 27, 2009

Jacqui Smith’s heart must have beat a little faster this week, when news reached her of the advances in the science of Internet censorship made in Germany. 11 German detectives descended on the home of Theodor Reppe, in the name of ‘discovery of evidence of distribution of pornographic material’. Without informing Theodor of his rights, [...]

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The Devil’s Pact and the rise of the Deviant Journalist.

January 16, 2009

Jay Rosen, a man who had a brief career as a journalist that he wisely curtailed with a decision to study in depth the far more interesting rise of citizen journalism and blogging, has penned an interesting academic article HERE on a matter dear to the heart of all those who closely follow the McCann saga, indeed all [...]

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