This month’s heresy is next month’s orthodoxy
“YouTube suspends Rand Paul for a week over a video disputing the effectiveness of masks”, reports the New York Times. I have no strong opinion on the question, but Senator Rand Paul is also Doctor...
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How will South Australia’s home quarantine trial work? Premier Steven Marshall said he hoped the trial would be expanded to international travellers in “subsequent weeks”, making it a national first....
View ArticleThe Welsh Senedd just voted for Covid passports because of a Zoom glitch
“Covid pass plans agreed in knife-edge Senedd vote”, the BBC reports: Mandatory Covid passes in nightclubs and large events will be introduced in Wales as planned on 11 October after Welsh ministers...
View ArticleEverybody but me probably knows the explanation for this
Sometimes if one does an internet search for the headline of an article, one will find it in several different places on the internet. For instance the article that Johnathan Pearce linked to in this...
View ArticleDistrust is the inevitable result of censorship. Oh, and announcing Peak 2021.
Doctors Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), have written an open letter from from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg: Dear Mark Zuckerberg, We are Fiona Godlee and...
View ArticleThe Tories are not the solution to anything
“If you don’t vote Tory, then Labour might get in” is the main argument I hear from people when I tell them I live in a very marginal Tory constituency and have no intention of voting Tory again. But...
View ArticleThis is not going to work
UK online safety laws to be strengthened: The new communications offences will strengthen protections from harmful online behaviours such as … deliberately sharing dangerous disinformation about hoax...
View ArticleSome proposed amendments to the programme of public events when the...
So who is to be first against the wall? The traditional view is that it should be the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. While anyone who could call a robot “Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with”...
View Article“Legal but harmful”
“The draft Online Safety Bill delivers the government’s manifesto commitment to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online while defending free expression”, says the gov.uk website. It...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
If you go back to the Arab Spring and the Green Revolution there was generally a sense of triumphalism. Back then, the CEO of Twitter said that we are the free speech wing of the free speech party....
View ArticleOut: Labour is about collective action. I’m listening to you. In: Take the...
Here is Angela Rayner MP writing in the website Labour List on 13th January 2020 and making her pitch to Labour members for the job of Leader of the Labour Party: “Leadership starts with listening –...
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Dear Troll Factory…
All you chaps with impeccably British names like Stephen Brown, John Smith (seriously?), Jane Austin (lol), Jim Williams, Paul Strong, Sarah Evans… explaining why the Bucha atrocity is...
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“Top Biden aide prods big tech to crack down on climate change misinformation”, Axios reports. Gina McCarthy, President Biden’s top domestic climate adviser, said tech companies should do more to...
View ArticleGovernment love
“Tinder Wants Money. We Want Love. The Solution: Socialize Dating Apps”, writes Nick French in Jacobin magazine.
View ArticleSome thoughts on the Assange case
Julian Assange is on the verge (as he has been for ten years, but this time for real) of being extradited from the UK to the US. The question I ask is, has he done anything wrong? If it were the case...
View ArticleSomeone is banned/cancelled…
Someone is banned/cancelled, then someone else is banned/cancelled for talking about the person who was banned/cancelled…
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“The media could not be played”, and that frightens me even more
The video embedded in this tweet from Laurence Fox apparently shows someone being arrested for tweeting. I cannot see the video, but the top comment says, “Chap shares a post by @LozzaFox and the...
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