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Katz Against the Wall
Read more: Katz Against the Wall“A closed mouth collects no feet” – Columnist/nutrition expert Dr. David L. Katz criticised for political articles Last month, I blogged about “The Clear and Present Menace of SciLence,” a politically charged opinion piece by Huffington Post columnist/nutrition expert Dr. David L. Katz, founding director of the CDC-funded Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. Dr. Katz’s January 27, 2017 article (source) In…
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Preaching to the Press
Read more: Preaching to the PressIs the British press unintentionally aiding efforts to implement state-backed press regulation? Last October, IMPRESS became the first Royal Charter-backed press regulator in Britain after its application was approved by the Press Recognition Panel (PRP), the government-funded body set up in the wake of the 2012 Leveson Report to oversee press regulation. The decision to approve IMPRESS has…
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WikiLeaks Goes “Full Trump”
Read more: WikiLeaks Goes “Full Trump”WikiLeaks claims it invented popular whistle-blower program SecureDrop and that Julian Assange co-founded the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) – claims denied by FPF co-founder Micah Lee in heated exchange with the WikiLeaks Task Force Last week, WikiLeaks tweeted that the Associated Press and other press organisations had adopted “WikiLeaks technology” in adopting SecureDrop, a whistle-blower…
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Preventing Prevent 2.0
Read more: Preventing Prevent 2.0Does Trump plan to implement a US version of highly controversial British counter-extremism strategy? Via “Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam – sources” by Julia Edwards Ainsley, Dustin Volz and Kristina Cooke, Reuters, February 2, 2017: The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent…
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Under Surveillance
Read more: Under Surveillance‘The whole process is a farce’ – Read the outraged responses to the UK Parliament’s refusal to reopen debate of highly controversial new surveillance law Last November, the UK Parliament approved the Investigatory Powers Act – dubbed the “Snooper’s Charter” by critics – a highly controversial surveillance law handing British authorities sweeping powers to hack into the phones…
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Crime and Regulation
Read more: Crime and RegulationIMPRESS-approved magazine publisher issues legal challenge against the Daily Telegraph after it published article about his criminal past Last week, the Daily Telegraph published an article about Steve McNought, whose Bristol-based publishing company Arkbound was recently approved by official UK press regulator, IMPRESS. The January 21, 2017 article, “Armed robber turned publisher wins approval from state-approved Press…
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Educating Against Extremism
Read more: Educating Against ExtremismWhy did the head teacher of a UK primary school threaten to report a Muslim parent to counter-terrorism authorities? I’ve asked the school for comment [Updated: Bevington Primary School has denied my request for comment – more after the jump] Via the pro-civil liberties Coolness of Hind blog last month, the parent (name redacted) received a threatening letter…
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Free Speech: No Lines Drawn
Read more: Free Speech: No Lines DrawnThe Comic Book Legal Defense Fund runs article based on my blog post re: WordPress censorship of Turkish political blog featuring satirical cartoons following court order by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Last month, I blogged about WordPress, the San Francisco-based blogging platform which earlier this year said that, without a U.S. court order, it refuses to honour…
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Hates Speech
Read more: Hates SpeechFormer BBC Wales Head of Public Affairs Leighton Andrews calls for European regulation of Facebook and Google Leighton Andrews, the former Head of Public Affairs for BBC Wales, has called for European law makers to regulate U.S. Internet giants Facebook and Google. Former Head of Public Affairs for BBC Wales, Leighton Andrews (source) In two…
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