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Obligatory Wikileaks Assange blog

Well seems the entire blogosphere has some sort of an opinion on this one way or another. So like the trend following sheeple I am here is my quick take. A few points:-

Wikileaks

1. I hugely admire the work that Wikileaks are doing. The main stream media has largely (IMHO) abandoned its role of properly holding power to account. There isn’t that much investigative journalism happening, and much of the way the Press media operates seems to me to consist principally of moving forward the political agendas of their wealthy

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Don’t rush the Digital Economy bill.

Today the controversial “Digital Economy Bill” will get a brief second reading in the house of commons in order that it can be rushed through in the parliamentary “mop up procedures” and become law.

That the Bill is being rushed through is hugely controversial, given some of the fundamental changes it introduces. On the one hand you have the BPI (Recording Industry Association) and the Trade Union led Creative Coalition Campaign calling for a speedy introduction. On the other hand there is a broad coalition of activists campaigning against the bill

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