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Tories demand publication of Trading Funds review, back free data principles
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| The Conservative Party is demanding that the government publishes the Trading
| Funds Review, while also giving its backing to the concept of free data -
| although it hasn’t quite gone as far as backing the entire principles of the
| Free Our Data campaign.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/copyright-dogmatism-temporarily-kicked-out-european-parliament
Liberty in Britain is facing death by a thousand cuts. We can fight back
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| Let's be clear: though the Stasi headline is irresistible, such Stasi-nark
| methods do not yet make a Stasi state. The political context is very
| different. We don't live in a one-party dictatorship. But nor is this
| just "an isolated case", as ministers always protest. Almost every week
| brings some new revelation of the way in which our government has taken a
| further small slice of our liberty, always in the name of another real or
| alleged good: national security, safety from crime, community cohesion,
| efficiency (ha ha), or our "special relationship" with the United States.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/feb/19/civil-liberties-terrorism
Recent:
Why protesters are now stalkers
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| One of the most heartbreaking articles I have ever read was a response column
| published recently in the Guardian. Edward Countryman explained that he was
| writing on behalf of his wife, Evonne Powell-Von Heussen, "who could not bear
| to face" the unintended consequences of the thing she had created.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/05/anti-stalking-liberty-central
Filming an illegal event is… illegal?
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| Will recording or filming of events which are considered illegal in law now
| itself be considered illegal? This is what the Home Affairs Ministry seems to
| propose to amendments of the Films Act.
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http://theonlinecitizen.com/archives/5322
UK Citizens Worked Up About Broad And Vague Obscenity Law
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| I have to admit that I've never quite understood the point of any sort of
| obscenity laws. Perhaps it's just my inner-libertarian, but why should the
| government be outlawing what people look at -- especially when it comes to
| such a subjective standard as "obscenity." Over in the UK, many people are up
| in arms over a new pornography law that is so broad and so vague that it
| could outlaw certain Batman comics, among other things.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090129/0308123565.shtml
Defining the Limits of Digital Britain
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| Most importantly, beyond vague talk of “changing the rules” it says little
| about redefining *precisely* what people should be allowed to do with that
| stuff freely – for example, by setting down in law new fair uses such as
| being able to take back-up copies of any digital content, use in quotations,
| parody etc.
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| At the moment, most people ignore the letter of the law, because the law is
| totally outdated, and the law generally turns a blind eye to them doing it,
| because it would be hard to arrest most of the country's youth, but that's
| hardly a solution in the long term.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1811&blogid=14&pn=2
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