Slack has updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been…
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British government announces 15 years in prison for reading banned literature
British lawmakers have announced 15 years in prison for taking part of banned literature. However, the threat of prison only covers new story formats…
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Why does Britain want to put the public in prison for fact-checking claims in the mainstream media?
British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced a fifteen-year prison sentence for watching terrorist propaganda, whatever that means this week. There is an exception…
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Is it prudent to ask if Britain’s nuke subs, which also run Windows XP, have also been hit by ransomware?
Britain’s hospitals have been brought to a standstill because of ransomware infecting obsolete and unpatched Windows XP systems. The same obsolete operating system is…
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In an EU without Britain and France, weaker and sensible copyright policy would emerge
Britain and France have been the primary copyright hawks in the EU, pushing for stronger distribution monopolies and harsher penalties at every turn. With…
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The entire modern copyright was built on one fundamental assumption that the Internet has reversed
When the copyright monopoly was reinstated in 1710, the justification was that of publishing being many orders of magnitude more expensive than authoring, and…
Read MorePRISM – The British Dimension
Loz Kaye, leader of the UK Pirate Party, gives a view from the UK about the NSA PRISM revelations: The cultural sense among ordinary…
Read MoreWhen Pirate Comradeship Beats Old Grudges
On December 18th, 2012, the UK’s Pirate Party proxy to The Pirate Bay was shut down. In resonance with the Internet’s spirit, two more,…
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In The UK, You Will Go To Jail Not Just For Encryption, But For Astronomical Noise, Too
There was some surprise in the comments of yesterday’s post over the fact that the United Kingdom has effectively outlawed encryption: the UK will…
Read MoreUK Considers Opt-in Freedom Of Speech
As outdated as a broken record, the UK is once again considering a plan to force Internet Service Providers to censor adult content online….
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