Category: human rights
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Bristol Fashion
As I watch the recent Black Lives Matter events unfold around the world my heart is full with the knowledge that, this time, we may fully address the absurd atrocity of discrimination on the basis of skin tone. There is no racism because there is only one race of humans now on this planet –…
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What’s in a name?
So, this story blew up and then apparently blew out, but perhaps not really. Another (in fact, now, at least two) of my friends on Facebook has had her account suspended because she has an odd (but legal) name. It seems the account will be offline until she provides clear and irrefutable proof that she…
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Power of Prayer
Well you heard it here first, and I’m not always proved right. Eric (I’m in a bit of a) Pickles has played his trump card in response to the banning – or more accurately, the declaring unlawful – of prayers during Council meetings. Pretty close to what I said a week ago in my blog post.…
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TANSTAAFL…
I’m not a fan of Tesco, but generally in moments of time constrained apathy you’ll find me shopping there, sacrificing personal ethic for convenience… bit like so many other folk. However, this week has hardened my resolve – for a little while at least (At least I’m honest about my soft ethics and not joking about the…
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After SOPA… ACTA… and other copyright issues
So, following my post about SOPA but obviously in no way because of it, SOPA has been shelved… for now. And almost immediately we are presented with ACTA. If at first you don’t succeed, simply re-package and re-present until the dissenters are too tired and confused to retaliate. The Anti-Copyright Theft Act is potentially even more damaging…
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Wikipedia Blackout
Tomorrow, 18th January 2012, Wikipedia will go offline for the day. This is in protest at proposed American legislation which, if enacted, is able and liable to damage the integrity and freedom of the Internet. The following statement is taken (without permission) from the Wikipedia site. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that has been developed…
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You know you’re a someone when…
… your employer blocks your domain! Yup, National Grid’s net nanny software now identifies rosher.net as a Personal Page and bans it stone dead! I wonder what made it noticeable? Folk looking at too many photographs perhaps. Hey ho.
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National ID Card and Register Consultation
Earlier today I attended a brief from the Home Office Minister Meg Hillier who was consulting on the forthcoming UK National ID Card and Register. I’m in no way a fan of surveillance and feel slightly queasy about ID Card, and I was invited as representative of The Druid Network, as a Faith Communities Consultee.
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DNA database, a paranoid wibble
It all sounds so logical, doesn’t it? A national DNA database, into which the DNA record of every person living in, visiting or passing through the UK is stored. A foolproof means of detecting the identity of anyone at any time at any scene, and a perfect way of catching criminals. How could that be…
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Taking the long view
It’s said that a week is a long time in politics. There’s another saying too; ‘get them while they’re young’. It’s fairly clear now, from media, from peer comment, from sites like no2id, that the electronic ID card is not going to happen any time soon – right thinking libertarians (like myself) will fight it to…
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