Category Archives: Freedom
Dark days
In case you didn’t notice, just recently a number of web giants, as well as innumerable other websites, went “dark” in protest against the attempts to control the internet by the US government. But the US isn’t the first nation … Continue reading
Goodbye freedom
Ten years ago tomorrow tonight I was watching an episode of West Wing, and, as I do, channel surfing during the ads. One channel showed a fire in the World Trade Centre, which less than a month earlier I had … Continue reading
Do not pity progessives
From an article at Truthdig entitled “Do not pity the Democrats” by Chris Hedges, this opening paragraph: There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, Freedom, Journalism, Politics, Sermon
The first casualty
The increasing intention of western and non-western governments to censor the internet is usually put in terms of “child protection”, although it is very unlikely to be affected by censorship, merely by using uncensorable techniques like Torrents. But one has … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, Freedom, Politics, Rant
An Officer and a Link
FAPP reply to Godfrey-Smith. Same old same old… Josh Rosenau is on fire. First he discusses recent polling on evolution and creation in America. Then he tests the hypothesis that the Affirmative Atheists have made a dent in religious belief … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Epistemology, Evolution, Freedom, History, Humor, Links, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Rant, Religion, Social evolution
The man with two links
I’m going to put the poster, if I can find it, for the 80s movies I use as my titles for these links posts, from now on. Stephan Hartmannand Jonah Schupbach critically review Michael Strevens’ book Depth, on scientific explanation. Drake … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Evolution, Freedom, History, Links, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Social dominance, Social evolution
Ferris Link's Day Off
See, this is what happens. I take a day off to write some serious stuff, and I accrue dozens of links… Top of the news is that the secrets of Çatalhöyük are about to be unveiled. Why this matters is … Continue reading
Filed under Australian stuff, Censorship, Epistemology, Evolution, Freedom, History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Species concept
Ferris Link’s Day Off
See, this is what happens. I take a day off to write some serious stuff, and I accrue dozens of links… Top of the news is that the secrets of Çatalhöyük are about to be unveiled. Why this matters is … Continue reading
Filed under Australian stuff, Censorship, Epistemology, Evolution, Freedom, History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Species concept
On recent developments, and a prospective
So, we have a woman PM. I’m not particularly impressed by that – we should have had equal representation in the Parliament thirty years ago and it’s no great achievement to get a female executive now. We beat the US. … Continue reading
Filed under Australian stuff, Censorship, Freedom, Media, Politics, Rant
Network censorship by Apple
Everyone who knows me knows I am a Steve Jobs fanboi. I’ve been using Macs since January 1985, and yes, I have an iPhone and I will buy an iPad once I have the cash and they get to a … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, Freedom, Politics, Technology
