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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “civil liberties”

• The No Clean Feed campaign

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 533
  Alex White has posted on what he describes as soul searching in the campaign against internet filtering about its direction. White’s post is replete with useful links, and is well worth a read. He disagrees with the focus on censorship, arguing that there are few points of connection with the lived experience of ...
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• Choudary- “UK Head of Al-Muhajiroun”. WHO??? WHAT???

  
  Tony Blair — Authority: 438
  Original Home Page All Contents of Site – Index All Links to ‘The Trial of Tony Blair’ posts Sign the Ban Blair-baiting petition here . Most recent sig comment: “The Best PM this Country had. Shame on the media.” Comment at end 6th January, 2010 CHOUDARY – “UK HEAD OF Al-MUHAJIROUN ...
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• Putting the Christmas crotch bomber in perspective

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 138
  I’m not really all that upset that the president took so long to address the failed Christmas undie bomber, and that when he did so he was pretty vague on what is to be done. I only wish he had made more fun of him as an obvious amateur who couldn’t even blow his own groin up. Terrorists gain prestige and ...
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• Colbert Report: The Word – Spyvate Sector

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 433
  A few weeks ago, the Colbert Report had a funny segment concerning surveillance and the Patriot Act. Here’s the video.
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• The right to vote

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 546
  Groups urge Kaine to restore voting rights for ex-felons Staff Report News Tips: freepress2@ntelos.net Ten Virginia civil-rights and faith-based groups have joined together to ask Gov. Tim Kaine to issue an executive order that would restore voting rights to most or all of Virginia’s 300,000 individuals ...
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• What Afghans Really Think

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 140
  In the Western media, the views of Afghanistans political leaders and news of their latest political debacles—President Hamid Karzais standoff with the Parliament over his 24 cabinet nominations the most recent example—tend to dominate over all else; few and far between are the perspectives of those at the ...
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• Theres Still A Helluva Lot of Infighting Between Gay Inc. and Olson/Boies

  
  Queerty — Authority: 680
  Its sort of adorable how, after attacking the American Foundation for Equal Rightss federal Prop 8 lawsuit, and then trying to join the lawsuit, and then forcibly ( by Judge Vaughn Walker ) being resigned to mostly sit on the sidelines while Ted Olson and David Boies try the case on Jan. 11, Gay Inc. groups including ...
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• More Stories About Privacy Published During Holidays

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 433
  ABC News: Pennsylvania Walmart Sued for Videotaping Employees, Customers in BathroomABC News reports on a lawsuit against Walmart over surveillance cameras installed in its bathrooms.Seven former and current employees from the Tire and Lube department at the Walmart in Easton, Pa., filed a lawsuit in county court ...
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• New scanners break child porn laws

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 140
  The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned.Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to “virtual strip-searching” and have ...
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• What happens now to Guantánamo?

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 668
  Back in March, I published a four-part list identifying all 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002, as “the culmination of a three-year project to record the stories of all the prisoners held at the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.” Now updated (as my ongoing project nears ...
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• New scanners break child porn laws

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 131
  The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned. Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to “virtual strip-searching” and have ...
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• Aviation security without dogma | Annabelle Lever

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Getting the right mix of anti-terrorist measures requires a careful analysis of the safety, dignity and liberty issues at stake The events of 25 December force us to confront, once again, the question of how the costs of aeroplane security should be distributed among would-be passengers, and what the nature of ...
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• Debate about Traveler Privacy, Passenger Profiling and Air Security

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 433
  The Obama administration announced that it will screen individuals based on their citizenship. Citizens of 14 countries (including Yemen, Pakistan, Cuba) will face “special scrutiny.” At the New York Times, there is a discussion among experts about whether profiling will actually improve national security. “Does ...
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• Nu Labour: Making You Safe With Child Porn

  
  The Appalling Strangeness — Authority: 133
  This cracks me up: Campaigners have claimed the images taken by the controversial machines could breach legislation making it illegal to create indecent images of children, as well as threatening the privacy of other passengers. Excellent stuff, albeit pretty bloody obvious. Lets start with the privacy issue: Simon ...
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• We’re giving terrorists what they want

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 668
  Something doesn’t quite add up over the security panic that followed last week’s failed terror attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner. Britain has joined the US and other countries in toughening up checks at airports. Full body scanners, hand luggage checks and no toilet access an hour before landing are ...
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• Another case against profiling

  
  Pickled Politics — Authority: 533
  This time more philosophical, by Alex Massie: Ultimately, however, the biggest problem with profiling is not that it won’t be 100% effective; rather it’s that one can easily have adverse consequences in other areas. When you stigmatise the innocent and treat them, implicitly, as guilty until proved otherwise you ...
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• Two Opinion Columns on Traveler Privacy and Body Scanners

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 433
  Since the alleged attempted bombing by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of an airplane from Amsterdam to the United States, there has been much discussion about “whole-body imaging” technology. (Here’s a good rundown about millimeter wave and backscatter X-ray technology; here’s a post in the archives.) The US ...
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• Whale(b)oil Slater hooked?

  
  Ethical Martini — Authority:
  I have no beef with Whaleoil, but I am interested in his ongoing court case. Blogger Cameron Slater (aka Whaleoil) has got himself into a bit of legal trouble and inadvertently made himself bottomfeeder food for the “repeaters” of the “Lame Stream” media that he so detests. Even so, one gets the impression ...
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• Olympia 2010: Another Banner Year for Civil Liberties

  
  OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media' — Authority: 447
  Start: Jan 19 2010 - 7:00pm End: Jan 19 2010 - 8:30pm Tuesday, January 19th, from 7 to 8:30 pm Olympia Center, 222 Columbia Street, Olympia From the ACLU: "Marijuana decriminalization ... Government surveillance ... Privacy protections ... The death penalty ... Join the ACLU-WA Thurston Chapter for a look at ...
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• Historians Against the War (For Progressives Only, Libertarians Not Welcome)

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 601
  In 2003, Historians Against the War (HAW) seemed a promising opportunity to bring together antiwar historians of all political persuasions. And, in fact, many libertarian historians joined with liberals, socialists and others on the left to oppose the war. Such an ecumenical political organization had rarely appeared ...
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