The British Chiropractic Association has thrown in the towel and dropped its case against science writer Simon Singh. This means that Simon has won his case after dedicating two years of his life and over £200,000 to defending his [...]
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More vested interest protecting vested interests. Pathetic and self-serving. I have no hesitation in branding Lord Clement-Jones a disgrace to his party. Equally I have no hesitation in branding Lord Howard of Rising a disgrace to the Conservative party. This week all the major parties have shown the kind of stupidity that is offensive to anyone who believes in a free, democratic society. The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. The House Of Lords has failed in its duty to hold the “government” to account and right the wrongs in this defective [...] Perhaps it’s now time to recognise that the online world has more influence than many might think. It cannot be denied that dynamic between the mainstream media and social media is changing. I’ll leave it to other commentators to discuss the whys, wherefores and likely (and unlikely) impacts of these events. I’m sure Master Yoda said “Hmm… learn you should from events [...] Neil Gaiman says “If you accept – and I do – that freedom of speech is important, then you are going to have to defend the indefensible. That means you are going to be defending the right of people to read, or to write, or to say, what you don’t say or like or want [...] It seems that self appointed, unaacountable quango that is the Internet Watch Foundation has decided that the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – an 85 billion page web history dating back to 1996 – is a hotbed of kiddie porn and has added it to whatever list it declares as “unsuitable and illegal viewing”. Demon Internet (now owned by Thus) is reported as blocking access to the entire [...] |
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