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Police in their head

21.02.2012
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I barely had time to take a break when the news on the papers confirmed another of my nauseating rants that I tend to visit every now and then. Minister De Marco announced on Monday that there is nothing in Maltese law that outlaws giving politicians the satirical treatment – especially on the days of [...]

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Internet Civil Rights – Dr Antonio Ghio replies

16.02.2012
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Regular readers of J’accuse will know that we are always glad when a post of ours provokes more discussion. We mentioned Dr Ghio’s short quip in the Times interview in our earlier post (The Emperor’s New “Internet Civil Rights”) and Dr Ghio chose to reply with his own thoughts that will surely help to generate [...]

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The Emperor’s New “Internet Civil Rights”

16.02.2012
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There seems to be “all-round support for the internet as a civil right” if we are to believe the Times, and we have no reason not to. Lawyer Antonio Ghio described it as “the legal crystallisation of a reality we live in”, which is an interesting statement for many a reason. Ever since PM Gonzi [...]

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What laws would you sign? International law by plebiscite?

14.02.2012
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One of the interesting spin-offs of the ACTA controversy is the newly discovered devotion that national representatives have towards what they deem to be “public opinion”. There are undoubtedly a number of factors  that have precipitated this state of affairs. Primary among these is the general feeling of misrepresentation that has increasingly gripped the European demos following [...]

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Fighting the law and winning – Censorship

12.02.2012
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University Rector Juanito Camilleri has  indicated that he would not have reported an undergraduate to police for publishing an explicit story in a student newspaper had the law been clearer, though he sees no reason to apologise. Now that’s interesting. Here is the rector: “Whether it is a fictional story or not is beside the point [...]

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Fighting the law and winning – The Imagined Evil

12.02.2012
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Saturday saw 500 or more (mostly) young people don their Anonymous masks and demonstrate their general anti-ism against ACTA and the international conspiracy of (as Edward Scicluna would have it) the monsters behind it. The interviews posted on the Times of Malta (see video on link) website simply confirmed the blindness of the protesters as interviewee [...]

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Fighting the law and winning? – ACTA

09.02.2012
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Labour MEP Edward Scicluna was reported to have made the following statement when addressing students at a university debate yesterday. Here, with all the caveats related to “il detto del detto” is how the Times reported him: Edward Scicluna appealed to students not to try and understand the details of Acta but rather to see [...]

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Franco Bonaparte?

08.02.2012
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Last time that I hinted at a link between Franco Debono and a historical figure I was told off in private by one of the blog’s more finicky readers. Well, mea culpa if Franco does not quite fit the “Generalissimo” label but the Rebel MP has now taken to quoting another general for his purposes. [...]

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The Queen of Pop and the National Subconscious

06.02.2012
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This weekend a whole nation sat glued to the TV screen watching what is arguably one of the largest crowd pullers on prime time TV. This nation loves to think it is at the centre of the known universe and was clearly aware that other nations were peeping in to steal the show. Superbowl XLVI [...]

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Perspectives on ACTA – Andrei Tuch (Part II)

04.02.2012
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Andrei continues his reasoned analysis of ACTA, concluding that though it is not evil it must be rejected anyway. ACTA is not evil : It must be rejected anyway – Part II In Part I, I described why ACTA is not the intrinsically evil entity that people think it is. In fact, it is a [...]

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