Category Archives: technology

Escaping the internet panopticon

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I’ll be returning to looking at the whole take back parliament thing later, but I’m still digging there so meantime I thought I’d pull together a few bits on something that I’m more familiar with. The Devils Kitchen has a link to an excellent article on the Panopticon Parliament which coming so close on the heals of Charlotte Gore’s article about the new front in the battle for liberty – prompted me to revisit an old bug bear of mine. Whilst we’re fighting tooth and nail (or at least letter and blog) to curtail the state intrusion into our lives, … Continue reading →

Missing the point

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As anyone who’s foolish enough to get me onto the topic will discover, I’m rather fond of the V/Guy Fawkes imagery . I therefore have been known to be a little fussy about how it’s used. As it is these days a powerful image against the Government and for civil liberties in general I get quite annoyed seeing it used in contexts which reduce it’s potency, of such symbolism. So I wasn’t that impressed when I came across this co-option of the V mask in support of the Lib Dems, I can only conclude that the person who made the … Continue reading →

Public sector poll result

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Just a brief follow up to yesterdays “Poll bomb”, the poll is now closed and the results are in. 75% of respondents thought that yes public sector workers should have to pay more to maintain the value of their pensions. So looks like not all internet polls are rigged after all. +1-1