Hillary Clinton poetry please!

https://youtu.be/gyUlsGSGU_s

Removed by YouTube... You clearly can't poke fun at Hillary Clinton

The strangest extract from a news report that I've read in a long while

The Scotsman's report  on the Glasgow bin lorry incident contains these lines:

'THE identity of the driver of the bin lorry that killed six people when it crashed in Glasgow city centre will be protected indefinitely, the local authority has said.

A spokesman for Glasgow City Council, which owns the bin lorry involved in the George Square tragedy, said it would “never release the names” of the driver or other two individuals who were in the cabin when it crashed.'

I don't ever recall such an action being taken before, can you? Is it legal? What happens at any subsequent inquest? What is the reason for this action?

I can't post comments like that...

Somebody decided that it was worth commenting on this post but with such language! I have censored it...

Jesus and Mo Banned from LSE Student Freshers Fair | Homo economicus' Weblog

'Chris Moos and Abhishek Phadnis of the atheist society at the LSE freshers fair were asked to remove/cover their T-Shirts which had the cartoon pictures from Jesus and Mo comic strip. When they refused they were marched off the premises by ten security guards. The following day they returned with the same t-shirt with tape censoring parts of the cartoon. When again asked to remove/cover they inquired which parts were deemed offensive so they could tape them too. Again they were asked to leave and escorted off the premises.'

More about the LSE's disdain for freedom of expression here http://homoeconomicusnet.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/jesus-and-mo-banned-from-lse-student-freshers-fair/

The way that the left cheerfully suppress free speech when it might offend them or their Islamist allies, disgusts me.

Pornography filters for the UK

I see that David Cameron has decided that he must 'do something' about children accessing porn on the internet and thus he's decided that everybody will be denied access to porn unless they opt to be able to access it.

Hmm, I foresee a few problems:
1. Proxy Servers - Has David Cameron ever heard of proxy servers? These nifty web services allow you to access any website from anywhere, so long as you can access the proxy server. Using the proxy server means that you can surf anything your heart (or other bodily organ) desires and there's nothing that the UK government can do about it.

Yes usage of proxy servers is low in the UK at present, but that's because the UK has no internet censorship. Just watch usage increase as 1 January 2014 nears. But these are difficult to use, I hear you say. Actually they're not but also when people are denied their access to porn, just watch the proxy server setup services spring up...


2. Misclassification - The existing web filters that I have used at work are poor at best. Misclassification is not uncommon and highly annoying when it occurs. A 1% error rate and I've seen much, much higher rates quoted, would mean many million of sites being mistakenly classified as porn and thus inaccessible from the UK. Imagine if your site had once had an image of Michelangelo's David on one page among hundreds on your site, for some web filter vendors that would be enough to brand your whole site as hosting nudity and thus porn. How would you get your site delisted? Could you? What would it cost you? How much business might you lose?


3. The thin end of the wedge - It's restricting access to porn today, in the interests of the children ("Will nobody think of the children"), what next? Bomb making sites? Radical Islamist sites? anti Islamist sites like Jihad Watch, The EDL website? UKIP? Once a government starts down the road of internet censorship, a precedent has been set and subsequent governments will be always tempted to extend the scope of the restrictions. Today there's no internet censorship in the UK, in 20 years we could be like China or one of the highly restrictive Middle Eastern states (not Israel).


4. Publicity  - How much would these opt-in lists be worth? How much would The Mail pay for such a list, so that they could check on teachers who have opted in? How much would The Guardian pay to see which Conservative MPs have opted in? I presume that you could think of many, many more such examples.



Pornography filters for the UK, it's coming sometime... but should it and will it work?

Fighting censorship...

Apparently the Chinese authorities are stopping their population from seeing this lovely comparison of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger with Chinese president Xi Jinping and Barack Obama. How cruel...

Happy Australia Day

Something for my Australian visitors - Do you like Dick? This advert was banned in Australia for it's content and innuendo - really? Australia Day is 26 January.

The definition of mean spirited?

I was going to post the video of Boris Johnson shaking his bootie along to the Spice Girls at last night's Olympics Closing Ceremony but all the video now shows is this

Oh nice one IOC, just when I think I couldn't despise you anymore, you do this.

Lily Allen censoring herself

I did wonder about how the broadcast industry would deal with the lyrics of 'It's not fair' and the answer would appear to be by not letting her sing the unacceptable words 'wet patch' at 1:06. I suppose that a song about premature ejaculation was always going to present problems.

The single version has a rather appealing video but YouTube embedding has been disabled, you can view it here.

UPDATE:
It's now embedable


So here are a few live performances of Lily singing 'It's not Fair'...

Jools Holland's 'Later' audience are clearly considered old enough not to be shocked by 'that phrase', cute smile at the end of her performance.


At The Wiltern Hollywood and I love the way she looks straight into the camera that shouldn't be filming her.

Internet censorship

Australia joind China, North Korea etc. How long before the UK joins them, after all it will be for the sake of the children - "will nobody think of the children".

"THE Federal Government is planning to make internet censorship compulsory for all Australians and could ban controversial websites on euthanasia or anorexia.

Australia's level of net censorship will put it in the same league as countries including China, Cuba, Iran and North Korea, and the Government will not let users opt out of the proposed national internet filter when it is introduced.

Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy Minister Stephen Conroy admitted the Federal Government's $44.2 million internet censorship plan would now include two tiers - one level of mandatory filtering for all Australians and an optional level that will provide a "clean feed", censoring adult material."

"Will nobody think of the children?"

"We should be extremely suspicious whenever politicians, campaigners and ‘experts’ play the children card. Almost any kind of restriction can be justified if the young are supposedly at risk."

Read the whole Spiked article here.

Watch this and have a think

If you don't know what this is in reference to then you are paying too much attention to the MSM and not enough to what is happening in the real world.