Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
Monday, 24 August 2009
Monday, 10 November 2008
News? What News?
This is getting depressing as well as frightening.
No doubt government officials will try to spin this away but you just know it's true:
Media could face reporting ban on security issues
As if the British media weren't already criminally negligent about reporting the destruction of our liberties.
Which is why I advise every young person and student I meet to leave the country as soon as they can. At the moment the only hope we have is that an incoming Tory government scraps the repressive legislation that the government has put in place or is planning - even if it's on cost grounds alone.
That's a pretty slim hope, given that all politicians are now cut from the same cloth and none of them cares to face up to the EU.
No doubt government officials will try to spin this away but you just know it's true:
Media could face reporting ban on security issues
As if the British media weren't already criminally negligent about reporting the destruction of our liberties.
Which is why I advise every young person and student I meet to leave the country as soon as they can. At the moment the only hope we have is that an incoming Tory government scraps the repressive legislation that the government has put in place or is planning - even if it's on cost grounds alone.
That's a pretty slim hope, given that all politicians are now cut from the same cloth and none of them cares to face up to the EU.
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Mandelson Is After Your Internets - Be Afraid
From The Register:
There is nothing these bastards don't want to control. The internet is a source of trouble for the politicos because it represents individual freedom (which they don't like). It also allows freedom of expression, freedom of information and provides a platform for ordinary people to find out about and discuss the realities of political life (something not provided by mainstream media). None of which the politicos like.
And it's also a source of revenue.
If the government manages to get away with this (and it will be tantamount to theft) the results will be predictable: an increase in costs, inefficiency on a gargantuan scale, corruption, and, of course, censorship. If they can't price their critics out of the market then they can simply ban them.
Welcome to China-UK.
Ministers led by Peter Mandelson are considering a power grab at the independent company at the centre of UK's internet infrastructure, The Register can reveal.
Mandelson's Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has asked Nominet, which is in charge of the .co.uk registry, to justify its independence from Whitehall.
There is nothing these bastards don't want to control. The internet is a source of trouble for the politicos because it represents individual freedom (which they don't like). It also allows freedom of expression, freedom of information and provides a platform for ordinary people to find out about and discuss the realities of political life (something not provided by mainstream media). None of which the politicos like.
And it's also a source of revenue.
If the government manages to get away with this (and it will be tantamount to theft) the results will be predictable: an increase in costs, inefficiency on a gargantuan scale, corruption, and, of course, censorship. If they can't price their critics out of the market then they can simply ban them.
Welcome to China-UK.
Friday, 24 October 2008
Library Bans Writer and Australians Get Net Censorship
An interesting post over at Areopagitica about Hackney council cancelling a reading in a library by Iain Sinclair because they don't like his views on the forthcoming Olympics.
And, having thought the Australians were smarter than us for demolishing attempts to set up an ID card and database similar to those planned by our own dear leaders, I find they're now intent on censoring internet access automatically.
And, having thought the Australians were smarter than us for demolishing attempts to set up an ID card and database similar to those planned by our own dear leaders, I find they're now intent on censoring internet access automatically.
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