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Posted in Censorship, Government, Internet, Morality, Philosophy, Technology on Feb 25th, 2008
There are press reports in the UK that the government is seriously considering legislation to force Internet service providers (ISPs) to take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads. It is estimated that 6 million broadband users illegally download files each year.
I don’t, for a minute, doubt that piracy is responsible for a slump in the [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Morality on Feb 11th, 2008
As the Olympic Games in China opproaches, it appears that the Chinese authorities are anxious to silence any embarrassing voices about their record on human rights.
In November 2007, a human rights activist, Hu Jia participated via webcam in a European Union parliamentary hearing in Brussels in which he stated that China had failed to fulfill [...]
Posted in Art, Censorship, Health, Human Rights, Internet, Religion on Feb 9th, 2008
“What’s right for me is compulsory for you!” At least, that’s what it is beginning to feel like. It seems that some Muslims are trying to insist that their views are given way to when they come into contact with another viewpoint. There doesn’t seem to be much room for accommodation to [...]
Posted in Censorship, Education, Isolation, Religion, Science, Technology on Feb 8th, 2008
There have been repeated threats in the US to limit the teaching of evolution in state schools. Three leading Florida state legislators are preparing to challenge new state science education standards that will make the teaching of evolution compulsory for the first time in Florida’s history.
Posted in Censorship, Existential, Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Literature, Religion, Science, Society, Technology, Television on Feb 3rd, 2008
It is a strange world - one after the flood. Many foolishly thought the flood was the result of global warming, but those at the Temple knew differently. It was divine retribution for those who doubted Him and tried to use science to thwart His wishes. It was retribution for those who [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Religion on Jan 31st, 2008
A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. Kim Sengupta of The Independent reports:
The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Humanity, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2008
Towards the Light by A.C. Grayling is an informative, passionate, encouraging, and challenging book.
The author gives a short 300 page history of the movement towards greater freedom in the West, and as you would expect from a Professor of Philosophy, occasionally pauses to give brief cameo explanations of some of the key thinkers whose ideas [...]
Posted in Censorship, Humanity, Humor, Humour, Internet, Technology on Jan 29th, 2008
Although the Internet gets unfairly blamed for all kinds of things - marital breakdown, social isolation, decline in reading standards and spelling, paedophilia - there is at least one thing in which it excels: ultra-fast spreading of communication. Because of this, little absurd gems which might otherwise be hidden, are told to the world.
The [...]
Posted in Censorship, Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Religion, Science, Society on Jan 25th, 2008
Many religions have always expressed an interest in the way people dress and wear their hair, although traditionally most of the attention was focused on women. The concepts of ‘modesty’ and ‘hidden’ occur in the holy books written by men. One of the strangest things I have discovered in recent months is that at [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Science on Jan 17th, 2008
Everybody should know that size doesn’t always appear constant when it moves. Even popes. Everybody knows that when you see someone in the distance, they look small, and that they grow bigger as they approach you, and that they grow smaller again as they go away. Even children know that.
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