Category Archives: Freespeech

The Guardian serenade

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Having mentioned the “Yo Soy 132” protests the other day I thought I should do a little bit of a follow up, as they’ve now serenaded the Guardian. As the elections are this weekend the BBC seem to have finally decided it’s worth some coverage, though still not mentioning the protests. The Guardian does better and even mentions the student demo’s and the name of the movement, though don’t seem to want to mention the serenade. As the picture above shows this isn’t a small protest movement we’re talking about here, yet coverage really does remain scant, and still the … Continue reading →

The forbidden history of unpopular people

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You’ve probably already seen this elsewhere, but on the off chance you’ve missed it do take the time to watch this excellent defence of free speech from the antipodes (The Forbidden History) +20

One step forward two steps back

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I can see blue sky out the window and it’s a bank holiday so really I should have better things to be doing than writing a blog, but there you go. First off a slight update it seems that a rare bout of good sense briefly inflicted the EU and all three committees rejected ACTA, though that doesn’t actually kill it out right. Of course the European Parliament may decide to go ahead with it in June anyway, after all we’ve already ratified it. Which does make me wonder how many other regulations our politicians blame on the EU we … Continue reading →