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Selective memory at bexley council

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This is slightly old news but I just found out about it from Bexley Councils shiny propaganda sheet. Some of you may recall that Olly Cromwell got into trouble for trying to film the council so much so that they called the police on him. Back in June of 2013 filming the council was banned in August Eric Pickles told them off over the matter. So as late as August 2013 filming was banned, and the likes of Olly Cromwell were being banned and chucked out of attending public meetings, yet by November of the very same year all that … Continue reading →

A technical hitch

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And I’m back in the room or something. Sorry for that disruption in service, it seems that after gradually getting worse and worse over the last year the company Anonymong was hosted with finally went tits up. They decided that the best way to notify their customers of this impending doom wasn’t to actually e-mail them but to post to their support forum saying “you’ve got two weeks to save your data”. Oddly I missed this post as I’m not in the habit of checking support forums randomly, so was rather like putting an announcement “on display in the bottom … Continue reading →

Well that didn’t take long

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Whilst I expected this to happen I’m slightly surprised that it’s been quite this quick. Just the other day BT announce they’re turning on censorship by default and before you can say “cluster fuck” it emerges that O2 are blocking a support site for homeless LGBT teens. This isn’t an accident, or at least not much of one, this is the filters working as designed. The New Statesman covers it very well, the debate was always framed as anti-porn when it was never just about porn, we don’t know who compiles the lists, the lists get changed and updated all … Continue reading →