August 13, 2010 – 3:47 am
I’ve always found the various attempts to argue for the burqa or niqab as liberating rather than constricting and deeply misogynistic to be a steaming pile. Clearly the people at newsbiscuit agree. Some highlights: New laws in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will require that every Blackberry user dress their phone a miniature [...]
I attended a religious school for the first three years of High School. I’m afraid that it went in one ear and out the other, because I didn’t even realise that Jesus was God according to Christian doctrine until I was about 25. I have a fantastic ability to be able to switch off during [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australian internet filter, Children, Internet, Law, Religion, Society
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Tagged Australian internet filter, censorship, Julia Gillard, Religion, Sex, stephen conroy, violence
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[Cross-posted at The Fortnightly Review of IP and Media Law - please check this excellent resource out] In a follow-up to my post on cyber-bullying, the Australian government are intending to amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) in an attempt to deal with the phenomena of cyber-bullying and “sexting”. 1. Current provisions of the [...]
Until I came to do the research for my MPhil, I didn’t realise that Prohibition — that great failed exercise in mass planning — was also known back in the day as ‘the noble experiment’. I learnt of the alternative moniker through Daniel Okrent’s superb history — Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Drugs, Feminism, Internet, Law, Marriage, Personal liberty
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Tagged akmal saleh, al capone, clive hamilton, coverture marriage, daniel okrent, EFA, helen razer, internet filter, iorarua, joseph raz, Ku Klux Klan, milton friedman, no clean feed, Prohibition, proudhon, stephen conroy, susan b anthony, timetotellmum, wordsworth donisthorpe
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When I was studying medieval Celtic history, I read somewhere that the early Irish believed that writing something down was a kind of magic, and various stories feature inscriptions in ogham, which assist the writers to find people, mark things as owned by a particular person, and to send magical messages. The early Irish were [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Children, Feminism, Internet, Technology
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Tagged Aristotle, Bindi Irwin, Catherine Deveny, comedy, humour, jackie-o, kyle sandilands, Logies, ogham, Rove McManus, Sam Newman, the chaser, twitter, Wil Anderson, written word
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I think it’s fair to say that Heath G and I share an obsession with fantastically unsuccessful defamation actions that result in the very opposite outcome to that which the plaintiff sought to achieve. At Minimal State, Heath has a post about the best one yet, involving a hapless company named T & J Towing: [...]
Elsewhere, I’ve pointed out that good lawyers are perfectly capable of ‘doing’ science, or history, or [insert non-legal academic discipline here]. That we can do it, however, doesn’t mean we ought to do it (see what I did there?). That this may be the developing common sense of the profession is evidenced in part by yesterday’s [...]
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” (Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer of Voltaire) Disapproving of what someone says but defending their right to say it is sometimes very hard. It sounds fine in principle…until you see something that is really challenging to your ideas [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australian internet filter, Internet, Law, Media, Privacy, Society
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Tagged aborigines, Australian Human Rights Commission, censorship, electronic frontiers australia, Encyclopaedia Dramatica, Free Speech, indigenous issues, ISP filtering, Joseph Evers, Racism, steve hodder-watt, streisand effect
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The Israeli military cancelled a planned raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook. The unnamed soldier revealed the time and place of the raid and the name of his unit on the social networking site. He said on his status update that his unit planned [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Fark!, Funnies, Internet, Law, Middle east, Politics, Religion
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Tagged binyamin netanyahu, Facebook, IDF, Israel, Israeli Defence Force, pope benedict, West Bank
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February 22, 2010 – 2:30 am
Iran’s supreme leader has denied it is developing nuclear weapons, after a new report from the UN atomic watchdog, the IAEA, sparked an international outcry. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said any fears were “baseless” as Iranians’ beliefs “bar us from using such weapons”. The blunt report raised concerns Iran was working on nuclear weapons. Russia said [...]
