Google’s rethink on Red China: you can’t stop the Chinese people
Share If I were Google, would I have entered Red China with the censored version of Google.cn, hiding things from the Chinese people for the sake of money? In February 2006, I blogged about this very...
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Even as Liu Xiaobo gets a Nobel prize, Beijing can be smug
Share As I watched actress Liv Ullmann read Liu Xiaobo’s address, ‘I Have No Enemies’, on BBC World, I was quite moved. The address is what the Nobel Prize-winning author and intellectual delivered...
View ArticleA bad choice of word, but what does the gay community actually think?
Share While I was out, I had noticed on Twitter a news item about an octogenarian, working for American Airlines, who was sacked for his use of the word faggot. I despise words like that, just as...
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Why do the major parties insist on holding us back?
Share In 2002, I did something really stupid. I bought a brand-new, 750 Mbyte Zip drive. After all, I had had three years of use out of my 100 Mbyte one, and since 750s looked like the way of the...
View ArticleFrack away, IGas Energy: the Metropolitan Police has your back
Share The spirit of Gene Hunt is alive and well in the Greater Manchester Police, in the form of Sgt David Kehoe. Arresting someone over drink driving when he has neither drunk nor driven reminds me...
View ArticleWhen it comes to mass surveillance, forget specificity
Share Be careful what you say on social media in Britain. English law permits mass surveillance of the big social media platforms, according to Charles Farr, the director-general of the Office for...
View ArticleTime for a rewatch: Reza Aslan interviewed on CNN about Muslim violence
Share Found on my wall today. While it’s over three months old, the responses from Prof Reza Aslan of the University of California Riverside address a lot of the comments that have surfaced...
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Give nothing to racism
Share What an honour it was to appear as one of the first batch of people in the Human Rights’ Commission’s Give Nothing to Racism campaign. Taika Waititi, New Zealander of the Year (and a Lucire...
View ArticleThere is no point to posting on Twitter
The demise of Twitter continues. Today I saw, while heading back to Tawa from Papakōwhai, the aftermath of a seven-vehicle accident (three cars, four commercial vehicles) on the opposite side of State...
View ArticleFrom the fediverse: saving the news from Big Tech, and why you shouldn’t use...
Excellent links by way of the fediverse today. First up, Cory Doctorow about saving the news from Big Tech, with sentiments that aren’t far off my own, many of which have been recorded on this blog....
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