What to do with historical bastardry in our heroes? This is republished from my substack. Henceforth such posts – the equivalent of a magazine article…
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Published 23 Nov 2022
Category: Censorship
Published 10 Sep 2011
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…
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Published 14 Apr 2011
Did Synthese bow to Intelligent Design pressure?
A while back I published a paper in a special edition of Synthese on “Evolution and its rivals”. My paper was titled “Are Creationists Rational?”…
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Published 20 Dec 2010
Statism and Wikileaks
So, I have not said much about Wikileaks because it is as discussed a topic as can be, but I’m feeling curmudgeonly, so here goes.…
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Published 17 Sep 2010
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…
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Published 10 Aug 2010
EFA Summarises Australian Party policies on censorship
Here:
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Published 6 Aug 2010
Australian internet filter dead in water
Forners may not be aware of an extremely boring federal election in Australia right now. Indeed, few Australians seem aware of this. This is as…
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Published 26 Jul 2010
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…
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Published 25 Jun 2010
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…
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Published 24 Jun 2010
Australian business
So Kevin Rudd has been ousted as PM and Julia Gillard replaces him to become Australia’s first female prime minister. What this means only time…
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