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Bert Thoughts

Anonymous Targets Irish Government Sites In Response To “Irish SOPA”

By on January 25, 2012 in News, policy

The last couple of days have been very “interesting”. As I mentioned previously, the Irish government intends to enact legislation that could have a “chilling effect”. I went into this a bit in my previous post and far more eloquent people have written extensively about the entire subject. My key issues with the legislation can [...]

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Stop SOPA Ireland

Say No To An Irish SOPA Style Law Say Yes To Democracy

By on January 23, 2012 in Legal Issues, policy

Remember SOPA? We didn’t like it and it was pretty clear that a lot of internet users weren’t too happy about it either. However SOPA was being debated openly in Congress. There was discussion. There were public hearings. There was also a massive backlash of public opinion, but that is one of the beauties of [...]

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Watch Your Mouth!

By on July 25, 2008 in policy

TJ McIntyre posted earlier this week about a courtcase in Dublin involving abusive activity on Bebo. TJ goes into some detail about the case and how the court was able to apply pre-existing legislation to a new medium. He also goes onto add a word of warning which many legislators should heed: But any extension [...]

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