Tag: rights
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The other big vote (Proposition 8 / 2 /102)
Ok going to try and cool it on that other little voting spree, but you don’t get off lightly. Read this blog post at Rude Pundit for why exactly opposing gay marriage is just screwed up – especially if you create precedence-making rights-restrictions to do it (can anyone saw straw man? Cue that old ‘they…
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Greedy Apple
One thing that irks me about Apple (only one thing? everyone cries, well the ones reading my blogs anyways!) is that they like to be portrayed as the victim, the lone tiny company against a world of big blue corporates. Especially when journalists cover news stories about Apple. Well I have news for you –…
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Freedom Not Fear
No2ID and Open Rights Group are doing a Fear Not Freedom day on the 11th of October. Those in the UK – they need your pictures of the surveillance state! Those of you outside the UK might not know there is the biggest density of CCTV cameras here in the whole world…and with the new…
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Orphans and Widows
Following on from a Boing Boing post – and this great article by Mark Dery and have been researching this new Orphan Works Act and have been rather disturbed and worried. It reads like a land-grab on Intellectual Property rights that only the rich stock libraries or famous artists could afford to register or submit…