Archive for the 'Freedom Of Speech' Category

Flood ruling welcome, but battle for a proper public interest defence goes on

Saturday, March 24th, 2012

Padraig Reidy: Flood ruling welcome, but battle for a proper public interest defence continues THE FREE SPEECH BLOG

Sarkozy calls for censorship, the off the shelf answer to extremism

Saturday, March 24th, 2012

Padraig Reidy: Sarkozy calls for censorship, the off the shelf answer to extremism THE FREE SPEECH BLOG

Crime reporters express fear over limited police contact

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Marta Cooper: Crime reporters express fear over limited police contact THE FREE SPEECH BLOG

Guardian Dowler story “chronically and potentially fatally” damaged press-police relations

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Marta Cooper: Guardian Dowler story “”chronically and potentially fatally” damaged press-police relations” THE FREE SPEECH BLOG

You can’t read these tweets

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Padraig Reidy: You can’t read these tweets THE FREE SPEECH BLOG

UAE: Activist Arrested for his Tweets

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Saleh Aldhaifairi's tweet on getting arrested With the birth of the Arab Spring, the United Arab Emirates' authorities seem to be intimidated by any voice asking for reforms and change. The start was with the arbitrary arrests of five activists for signing an online petition and keeping them illegally in custody for months before giving [...]

A Pre-Dead Minion Writes…

Monday, March 12th, 2012

Ken Kully helpfully chimes in via FC Comments: To add to the digital privacy/password-changey goodness, grab yourself a copy of KeePass. It’s a simple but powerful password database application, which includes a random password generator you can control the parameters of. Whenever you need to register for something, just call up a new entry in [...]

Internet Freedom in Southeast Asia

Sunday, March 11th, 2012

Cyber political pundits, bloggers and Facebook activists in Thailand often feel deeply frustrated and annoyed with their lack of liberty to write at will. Yet netizen's frustration with seemingly increasing internet censorship is not unique to Thailand, but rather it's part of the global insurgence of state control over internet freedom. As the internet and [...]

Steynian 457rd

Saturday, March 10th, 2012

BILINGUALISM KILLS! Trudeapian mandate fails desperate Shafia girls ~ ITEM: Shafia case was affected by English-French snafu: youth protection officials “When the Shafia girls went looking for help from youth-protection officials three years ago, their case was hampered by a uniquely Canadian bureaucratic snafu. Some of their pleas were lost in translation. Or, more precisely, [...]

Toofs Update– Happy Happy, Joy Joy

Friday, March 9th, 2012

~ WHERE, O WHERE, YOU wonder– ye few who are still checking in– is that ever-whinging WebElf? Living in the fun-filled Book of Job, and scratching myself with potsherds, thanks for asking. Toof Diagnosis Thus, the first tooth problem is roughly 80% better– but there’s still pain.. and so the good dentist who recently pulled [...]

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