Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Open Source and Export Controls
This is the blog version of a Twitter conversation with my colleague Graham Chastney. Huawei, and the war on trade POTUS #45 has been pursuing a ‘trade war’ with China, as this appears to be popular with his base, even though it makes stuff more expensive for them and will ultimately harm the US economy. […]
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Tags: amazon, android, AOSP, ARM, export, google, government, hardware, Huawei, open source, RISC-V, software, trade
TL;DR If you can persuade people that their side is going to win without their vote, then perhaps just enough of them won’t bother to show up that you can steal the win. Background The two countries that I spend most of my time in (the UK and US) continue to recoil from the effects […]
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Tags: politics, referendum, social media, vote, voter
Wage Slaves
I recently had the good fortune of meeting Katz Kiely and learning about the Behavioural Enterprise Engagement Platform (BEEP) that she’s building. After that meeting I listened to Katz’s ‘Change for the Better‘ presentation, which provided some inspiring food for thought. Katz’s point is that so much human potential is locked away by the way […]
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Tags: culture, empowerment
Racist, abusive or foul language
In my last post ‘The Surveillance Party‘ I wrote about how the UK Labour Party used their ersatz SIGINT operation to exclude me from their leadership election process. I was told ‘You posted inappropriate comments on social media on 5 July 2016’, so let’s take a look at my tweets and see what might have […]
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Tags: #ChickenCoup, #LabourPurge2, abusive, blacklist, Blair, Brexit, Chilcot, Corbyn, disabled, Labour, old, politics, racist, RMT, SIGINT, swearing, Union
The Surveillance Party
TL;DR The UK Labour Party has been running an ersatz signals intelligence (SIGINT) operation to identify and exclude members and supporters that they don’t want voting in their leadership election; people who under some sort of criteria are identified as enemies of the party. This should be terrifying, as the difference between enemy of the […]
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Tags: #LabourPurge2, Corbyn, enemy, exclusion, Facebook, Labour, politics, purge, SIGINT, Snowden, social media, state, twitter
The web filter industry
There has been a LOT of noise over the past week about David Cameron’s proposals to have default on web filters for UK ISPs (which seems to be happening despite it not being part of official government policy, and entirely outside of any legislative framework). Claire Perry (Conservative MP for Devizes) has been leading the […]
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Tags: censorship, filter, moral panic, morals, open rights group, proxy, vpn, web
A well regulated lobby
Our elected (and unelected) officials keep getting caught with their hands in the till by investigative journalists. The proposed remedy for this is to establish a register for lobbyists. A plan that the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) seems to be eagerly embracing (when it’s not saying that the plan needs to be even […]
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Tags: citizen, corruption, lobby, politician, politics, regulation
