Posts by Martin Lindberg
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I think there’s some reasonable evidence that Prince Andrew is corrupt.
I guess I was just not surprised.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Don Christie,
Oh, and don’t you think it is pertinent that Sarah Ferguson’s ex is open to the idea that a bit of corruption is ok?
Since you asked - No, not really.
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...to force a jury trial
Yes, but just to nitpick; there would be no jury trial as Sweden (like most of Europe) uses the Civil law legal system with an inquisitorial court.
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Although it does appear that the Australian government is fixin’ to do something with Assange.
That may be the case. I certainly don’t want to be an apologist for the filter or the Australian government in general. And it wasn’t just you tweeting that, it came from all over the place. I read the linked article too and in the context of this leak it seemed plausible that it was related. You really had to look at the date to realise it wasn’t relevant.
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A world where the Australian government, another bunch of suits who talk loudly about freedom and democracy, can abuse a law passed to prevent the publication of kiddie porn, by using that law as a mechanism to block Australian citizens’ access to sites whose opinions they (the Australian Government) disagree with.
This is simply not true. I know there was a flurry of tweets yesterday about the Australian filter blocking Wikileaks and linking to an article about that. However, that article was from 2009 and related to a list of childporn sites blocked by the Danish filter that had been uploaded to Wikileaks.
In fact, Wikileaks has now been removed from the filter (ZDNet).
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Sometimes I really wonder how it is humans can allow themselves to be manipulated so easily. (Note to the usual mudslingers insinuating that it is I who is being ‘taken for a ride’ is as clichéd and old as all the other ’turn it back on the poster” sledges which lazy and ill-informed types need to resort to)
Oh damn! You got me there. I give up. You win. I think your argument is so powerful that no further debate is needed.
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Russell – the date on that article is March ’09. That happened a long time ago under a fairly different set of circumstances.
Quite. It happened because a list of supposed childporn URLs banned in Denmark was uploaded. Not that I’m defending the Australian filter, mind you, but that story has nothing to do with the latest Wikileaks release.
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Whoops!
Not now it doesn’t …
Now I'm all alone on the duplicate thread...
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The link “Same old ideas with a new lick of paint?” leads to a Scoop story on the mining explosion?
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At last I can post my ever-at-the-ready Copenhagen Cycle Chic link.
Heh, well yeah. That's the part of the world I'm from so I have come across that site before. What I find interesting about that site is that it's like a kind of anthropological study of, well, what's normal to me.
Of course 'normal' is in the eye of the beholder. I'm sure if I created a similar site with photos of helmeted riders fighting their way across Auckland it would probably seem interesting (although not like heaven) to riders in Denmark (and Sweden, Holland etc).