Category Archives: Civil Liberties

Everything will be need to know

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(This post was first published at Knee Jerk) Ignorance it seems is bliss, that is our ignorance would be bliss to those that spy upon us. With so many revelations coming from the Snowden leaks it’s hard to keep up with what those whacky dudes over at the NSA and GCHQ are up to. Yesterday a bunch of e-mail services shut down rather than risk giving customer data to the spooks, the Germans decide it would be super special if they just turned on encryption between mail servers – but the spooks weren’t to be out done. They have decide … Continue reading →

Meanwhile in Russia

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Hot on the heels of the same sex marriage bill being passed in the UK, Russia’s lower house has passed some sex legislation of it’s own. They’ve unanimously banned the promotion of homosexual propaganda, a bit clause 28 that – except in Russia it seems that “homosexual propaganda” may cover such outrageous behavior as holding hands. This law extends to foreign visitor as well and indeed four dutch citizens have already been arrested oh and 70 Russians as well which isn’t bad going for a law just 9 days old. The four where LGBT activists and attending a human rights … Continue reading →

Salami slicing to a police state

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Whilst that nice Mr Cameron is killing free speech and trying to introduce state censorship of the internet to protect us from looking at dirty pictures another more worrying bit of legislation is crawling it’s way through parliament. Via the book of face my attention has been brought to an article by Scriptonite Daily concerning the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill 2013-14 which is about to enter the report stage. I’ve not read the entire bill yet, it’s 175 pages, but I shall get back to that and go through it section by section, but a quick check suggests … Continue reading →