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The incredibly long and amazingly silly story of the #TwitterJokeTrial

by Adam Banks on 31 August 2012 in Features

On 27 July 2012, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales handed down the final judgment in what had become known as the Twitter Joke Trial. Considering that this was the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year process, the assembled crowd didn’t get much of a show. It took only a few minutes for Paul Chambers [...]

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ISPs cool on Government plans to censor adult content on the Internet

by Kenny Hemphill on 11 October 2011 in News

Prime Minister David Cameron is set to announce the Government’s response to the Bailey report on the sexualisation of children this afternoon. Among the measures he is expected to outline is an agreement with BT, Virgin, Sky, and TalkTalk to offer new customers the opportunity to block adult content on their computers, smartphones, and mobile [...]

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First they came for internet users by the front door. Now they’re coming for websites by the back door

by Adam Banks on 15 April 2011 in Editorial

In this guest column, Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group explains why minister Ed Vaizey is wrong to consider plans for blocking websites. Website blocking is being discussed by ministers in the UK Government to deal with the supposed scourge of illicit downloads. Last year, the Digital Economy Act sought to create legal powers [...]

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Militantly neutral

by Adam Banks on 1 April 2011 in Editorial

Net neutrality isn’t a principle, it’s a tautology. A neutrally carried internet is, well, the internet. Anything else is something else. Over the history of computing, short as it is, there’ve been many visions of how information would be distributed among the communities, offices or homes that might contain a computer. Who exactly would own [...]

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