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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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Unspun is looking into media and first hand reports and trying to figure out if the Indonesian government is doing a good job in handling the quake crisis.
Han at The Legal Janitor agrees with Singapore prime minister's thoughts on free trade.
Virtual Doug in Vietnam has the story of a popular tourist spot known as “The Japanese Bridge”
Christian Dunleavy checks in on the Lunch for Democracy demonstration which took place today in Bermuda in protest against the government's poor handling of, and failure to pass, a bill to amend the country's Human Rights Act to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. He is “pleasantly surprised at the turnout, which was much stronger than I think anyone had expected. I couldn't hear any of the speeches, but I think most people were being respectful but vocal.” In another post, he notes his favourite slogans: “Mandate my ass” and “I'm not gay, my girlfrend is.”
“I believe that the time has come to admit that the kind of legislation that permits a body of non-elected, faceless individuals to decide what the Bahamian citizen should be able to see is fundamentally obsolete,” writes Nicolette Bethel in an article questioning the usefulness of the Bahamas Plays and Films Control Board, the organisation behind the banning of the film “Brokeback Mountain”.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...