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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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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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Perspectives on ACTA – Andrei Tuch

03.02.2012
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The J’accuse impromptu ACTA series continues. I knew that when I asked (provoked?) fellow blogger Andrei for his ideas on ACTA that I would not be short-changed. Based in Estonia Andrei describes himself as a “technical writer, freelance translator, standup comedian, occasional journalist, all too rarely blogger, wannabe exegete”. Here is the first part of [...]


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Perspectives on ACTA – Martin Bugelli

02.02.2012
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Mr. Martin Bugelli, Head of the European Commission Representation in Malta has kindly given his permission to reproduce this article that appears in today’s Times of Malta. Over the last few days I have been asked for my two cents on ACTA – I have politely refused to comment on the subject (thank you One [...]


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