Weather or riots… place your bets

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We shall march again
I see from Facebook that the students plan to take to the streets again, though this time for a peaceful protest. though their banner does look like a cross between a socialist revolutionary poster and Irish republican lyrics/slogans – both movements well known for their peaceful nature. The Facebook group claims over 6,000 people are going to be attending, however looking out of my window I can see about 3 inches of snow on the ground and more falling. Now admittedly I’m on the edge of town but I don’t imagine it’s falling much less in the centre. So I wonder how many students will turn up today and if it’s the violence from the “small minority” of previous protests and of course the “brutal police actions” or if maybe the weather being more obviously less clement that may put them off.

I am of course quite happy to be proven wrong, and there to be a decent turn out with no trouble at all. I actually expect that there will be less trouble though as I somewhat suspect that those only interested in causing trouble will have far less incentive to brave the weather than people that might actually be affected by the changes in university funding.

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I was wondering when this would happen

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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 ISPS enforce age verification for looking at porn for the children of course. Whilst only an adjournment debate it maybe (as El Reg observes) an indicator of likely future support for such ideas. Of course to enforce age verification for porn, the ISPs are going to have to monitor where all of your internet traffic is going and match it against a list of porn sites and if they’re doing that and making logs well the police might find that handy for tracking down other untoward access.

BigBrother watch has more on the story but is it any wonder that a recent poll found that many people consider Government meddling the biggest danger to the internet?

*For those that don’t known Nominet is the not for profit company that controls all “.uk” domain names.

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