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net.wars: Digital exclusion: the bill
The workings of British politics are nearly as clear to foreigners as cricket; and unlike the US there's no user manual. But what it all boils down to in the case of the Digital Economy Bill is that the rights of an entire nation of Internet users are about to get squeezed between a rock and an election unless something dramatic happens.[more...]
net.wars: The cost of money
Everyone except James Allan scrabbled in the bag Joe DiVanna brought with him to the Digital Money Forum (my share: a well-rubbed 1908 copper penny). To be fair, Allan had already left by then. But even if he hadn't he'd have disdained the bag. I offered him my pocketful of medium-sized change and he looked as disgusted as if it were a handkerchief full of snot. That's what living without cash for two years will do to you.[more...]
net.wars: The surveillance chronicles
There is a touching moment at the end of the new documentary Erasing David, which had an early screening last night for some privacy specialists. In it, Katie, the wife of the film's protagonist, filmmaker David Bond, muses on the contrast between the England she grew up on and the "ugly" one being built around her.[more...]
net.wars: The community delusion
The court clerk – if that's the right term – seemed slightly baffled by the number of people who showed up for Tuesday's hearing in Simon Singh v. British Chiropractic Association.[more...]
net.wars: Death doth make hackers of us all
"I didn't like to ask him what his passwords were just as he was going in for surgery," said my abruptly widowed friend.
Now, of course, she wishes she had.[more...]
net.wars: Light year
This year is going to be "the first British general election in which blogging is going to be a factor," someone said on Monday night at the event organized by the Westminster Skeptics on the subject of political blogging: does it make any difference?[more...]
