Tag Archives: Civil Liberties

I am Pornacus

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So the government have come up with another jolly wheeze to control the Internet, we have to opt in to be allowed to access “porn” on computers we pay for over connections provided at our expense by private companies. Oh and as Anna Raccoon points out anything with too much of #FFE5B4 could be iffy. The implications of such restrictiosn have already been nicely covered by Leg Iron amongst others and Make it stop have suggested the tradtional internet response to anyone trying to block anything. “Make lots more of it avaialble” Or for those of a more classical bent … Continue reading →

Student tantrum revisited

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As articles about the student protests/tantrums and the evil changes to their funding abound, I find myself increasingly confused by the whole matter. The Independent reports that only a quarter of the students are expected to actually pay off their loans, which would seem to put the whole change in funding firmly into the “book keeping trick” category, as the bulk of the funding will still come from taxes covering the loans but the government can at least claim it’s all loans. In the meantime apart from keeping the cost off the governments books for a bit it would seem … Continue reading →

Where is the world heading?

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I apologise that I can’t recall where I found the link to this from, but this brief talk by Dale Kuehne from The Jubilee center is well worth 7 minutes of your time, thought provoking and hopeful it makes an awful lot of sense, both in regards to what’s happening with WikiLeaks and the student protests not to mention everything else that’s going on. +2-1