Turing gets apology 11 Sep 2009 Gordon Brown, on behalf of the UK government, apologised to Turing and all the other LGBT victims of repressive sexual laws in the past. The end of the world will come soon. All it took was one petition (and of course this blog). [HT Pharyngula] Politics
Censorship More developments on internet filtering: the religious connection 28 Oct 20084 Oct 2017 As I feared, the internet filtering issue has now been taken up by special interests. The conservative Christian political party Family First, run largely by the Hillsong evangelical denomination, has one senator, but the balance of power is so tight they wield disproportionate power, and as PM Kevin Rudd and… Read More
Australian stuff On preventive censorship versus punishment 2 Sep 2009 In the last few years, there has been an increasing tendency of so-called democratic governments to increase the amount of control they have over their population, under the guise of various “emergencies”: terrorism, child pornography and of course a slightly more honest concern over property rights. Just today, the Australian… Read More
Politics Another reason why the war on terrorism is a war on democratic freedom 28 May 200818 Sep 2017 The Scientific Misconduct blog has identified a case of censorship based on fear: Briefly, a postgraduate student (Rizwaan Sabir) was conducting research (into terrorism). He was arrested after downloading material (related to terrorism) from a US government website. I believe that the material is here – take a look. His… Read More