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VICE magazine, purveyor of many things poorly-thought-out and ultimately stupid, has done it again, this time publishing a piece by one Annette Lamothe-Ramos entitled “I walked around in a burqa all day (and I’m not Muslim).” Now, I’m not Muslim either and my only experiences wearing any sort of hijab have been whilst visiting mosques, […]

In case you weren’t aware, I’m kind of a fan of the Olympics.  Yes, I know about the drones, and the surveillance, and the IOC’s stupid rules about social media, and the rest of the free speech issues, and of course it angers me just like anything else.  And I’m just as disgusted by the […]

The Declaration of Internet Freedom: how the net’s minutemen plan to protect the future From Global Voices: “Five days before his arrest in September last year, a prominent Ethiopian dissident blogger, Eskinder Nega, wrote, ‘Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. […]