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Prescient campaigning

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Much as I hate to bang on about the purple people over at “Take Back Parliament” but just noticed something rather interesting the domains takebackparliament.com and takebackparliament.org were registered before the election. Both domains were registered by Blue State Digitial on the 29th April as can be clearly seen from the whois data: Domain Name: TAKEBACKPARLIAMENT.COM Registrar: TUCOWS INC. Name Server: NS1.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM Name Server: NS2.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM Updated Date: 03-may-2010 Creation Date: 29-apr-2010 Expiration Date: 29-apr-2011 Domain Name:TAKEBACKPARLIAMENT.ORG Created On:29-Apr-2010 15:47:07 UTC Last Updated On:03-May-2010 16:42:03 UTC Expiration Date:29-Apr-2011 15:47:07 UTC Name Server:NS1.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM Name Server:NS2.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM Now of course it doesn’t hurt to … Continue reading →

Viewscreens are coming

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This post is going to link to quite a few old articles as every time I’m about to write it something new adds to the pile of stuff that needs to be included. So it’s time I accepted the pace of things happening is just too fast and I should try to tie a few bits together knowing it’s all going to be out of date before I hit publish. The Government has a love hate relationship with the Internet, it loves the amount of data and control it could give over us but hates the fact that it allows … Continue reading →

Hiding in the budget

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It’s really quite amazing what gets hidden in the budget, like HMRC being allowed to intercept any suspicious mail anywhere in the country and open it before it is delivered. (hat tip LPUK). Now to be fair they can intercept stuff at the moment, but they have to tell you before they open it, the plan is in future they can just open stuff without telling you. The relevant section of the Postal Services Act 2000 is already quite vague but does at least state clearly that they have to give you the chance to be there when they open … Continue reading →