No so long ago commenting about the take down of FitWatch, I observed that it’s the normal response of ISPs to pull the plug at the slightest trouble and that the more sensible thing to do was to host in a different country. In the commetns over at LegIron’s he recommended the sagacity of a mirror site. However now I see via
Sorry about this but two more petitions towards which I feel I should draw your attention. First falling into my inbox this morning a request from The EU Referendum pledge they’d like us to get more names signed up to try and start putting direct pressure on our various MPs, and see which ones are actually prepared to at least claim they’d like to give us a say on our membership in the EU. The second via Anna Raccoon is new of a petition to reform libel laws to allow “fair comment”, go sign that over at www.libelreform.org. It won’t … Continue reading
A while back I kicked in some money to fund the Diaspora project which was aimed at producing a distributed open source, privacy aware secure social networking platform , to replace the likes of Facebook. Outside of the states intrusion into our lives, the readiness with which people give up information to the likes of Google and Facebook (where the users data is the product) concerns me, not least because it provides a single point for governments to concentrate their power. Why bother bugging every ISP when 90% of the population are putting everything you want to know on a … Continue reading
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