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Hamlet and the British Library 27 Aug 2013 | 04:27 pm
So this month author Mark Forsyth found out that the British Library blocks access to Hamlet on the grounds that it is violent. In pantheons across dimensions, the gods of irony collectively handed in...
To filter, or not to filter... 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Remember the advice that adults used to give young people about using the Internet, back when it came from the mouths of 'experts' such as the illustrious Carol Vorderman? 'Never give out your real ....
The bully season 15 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
For much of this year I've been helping write and edit guides to coping with and preventing cyberbullying - the kind of thing, in fact, that has been cited as playing a role in the death by suicide of...
Nudging the public into censorship: The effect of default opt-in on decision making 14 Aug 2013 | 03:36 pm
Last year the Government decided that it wanted ISPs to “actively encourage parents...to switch on parental controls”. Two weeks ago the Department for Department for Culture, Media & Sport released a...
The problem with #twittersilence 12 Aug 2013 | 04:26 pm
My Sunday morning Twitter timeline has rarely been busier than on #twittersilence day, 4 August - and not just because the BBC was going to be announcing the next Doctor. Receiving misogynistic abuse...
The Right to Open Access to Humanities and Social Science Research 7 Aug 2013 | 04:33 pm
Open access refers to the free access to and reuse of scholarly works. Peter Suber, who was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (February 2002), and authored the book titled O...
Sleeping with the enemy 5 Aug 2013 | 04:11 pm
Sometime in the mid-1990s, when the barrage of daily postal mail was at its height, I started suggesting to PR people a campaign to send out all press releases on the backs of postcards. The suggestio...
Seizing personal data without reasonable suspicion 31 Jul 2013 | 04:19 pm
How would you feel if the police stopped you on a whim, took your phone, your laptop, your digital camera, your MP3 player, your USB sticks and your memory cards then copied everything on them? How w...
Immoral panic 30 Jul 2013 | 03:58 pm
"The Internet perceives censorship as damage, and routes around it," John Gilmore famously said. I've quoted that aphorism as often as anybody, but it's only really true if by "Internet" you mean "the...
The Impending Fate of Bradley Manning 29 Jul 2013 | 04:33 pm
Today, Bradley Manning will be sitting in a court room in Fort Meade, with one member of his defence team and a military prosecutor, waiting for Judge Denise Lind to deliver her verdict. That Manning ...
