Category Archives: Civil Liberties

Spirit of the Olympricks photo contest

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Not content with not allowing people to share photo’s on the internet, those enlightened people running the olympics have also said if you’re not a sponsor you can’t run Olympics based photography competitions,though locog do seem to have very quietly back pedalled on that a bit. Now as an enthusiastically loss making site (much like the main stream media there) it should be OK for me to run just such a contest as: “A spokesman for the Olympics organising committee, Locog, today told AP: ‘I have spoken with one of our lawyers and, provided the pictures are not used for … Continue reading →

Extreme porn update

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Via Katabasis, it seems what I said ages ago was right – want to get someone in trouble send them a “banned” pick then tip off the police, the offence is possession so how you got it or even if you looked at it doesn’t matter. Mind I love the defence that the e-mail server etc. belong to the company (in the case microsoft) so as you don’t own the mails but merely have a license to access them are you in fact in possession. “DS Callahan was recalled to the witness box. The main point of contention involved the … Continue reading →

Another slippery slope

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Yet another slippery slope that we were all told wouldn’t be applied to nice law abiding people just horrible horrible evil pervert – thus provoking at the time the response from numerous law abiding people of “yeah like hell it won’t just wait”. And thus verily it did come to pass that images of fisting should be classified as extreme porn and the possessors of such should receive up to three years custody and be put on the sexual offenders register. (If you don’t know what fisting is google at your own risk, but not I’d advise at work, or … Continue reading →