Below is a transcript of the Bloggers Summit Q&A Session
CHAIR: Do we have any questions: we’d better be quick.
Q: Hi, my name’s Imran Khan, I was at the previous session in this room and it was basically talking about the decline of journalism as under threat from libel and the law, and also from finances. [...]
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Transcript: The Conservatives and Civil Liberties Q&A
(in media res) …Cameras inside pubs are taking away one of the few places that a lot of people still feel should be private space. But I think there was a larger issue raised by one of the questioners in the main session which is what are the Conservatives going to do about it if [...]
Read →Demonstrating respect for rights?
Originally posted on OurKingdom
Matthew Brian: The right to protest is undeniably one of the most essential pillars of a free society. The suppression of dissent often draws the international media spotlight when it comes to the actions of regimes and governments around the world whom we in the West describe as repressive. Britain styles itself as [...]
Liberal Democrats warn that misuse of ‘RIPA’ makes it a snooper’s charter
The BBC has drawn attention to the results of a Liberal Democrat Freedom of Information request revealing misuse of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), which gives councils surveillance powers. Although designed to fight serious crime, officials have been using it to spy on suspected dog fouling, littering and other minor offences. The Liberal Democrats have [...]
Read →Government to Monitor Social Networking sites
A new Facebook Group has been launched to draw attention to government plans to monitor social networking sites. The proposal, as highlighted by a Home Office spokesperson, is to update existing plans to store information about every telephone call, email, and internet visit made by anyone in the UK on a central database. This will include collecting data [...]
Read →Challenging the UK’s absurd libel laws
Britain’s absurdly unjust libel laws represent the biggest daily chill on free speech in the UK, says Jo Glanville ,editor of Index on Censorship and organiser of the Human Rights and Global Responses session at the Convention, in an important piece in today’s Guardian. The mere threat of legal action by wealthy individuals concerned about their privacy and [...]
Read →Carnival on Modern Liberty. 8
This weeks Carnival on Modern Liberty is brought to you by Cabalamat at Amused Cynicism. It contains a list of relevant links to a various pieces engaging with the issues raised at the Convention. It includes comments on Jack Straw’s blog, David Mery on getting removed from databases, and potential new threats to liberty.
If you want to [...]
Police session leads to combined action
Laurie Penny (Red Pepper): The police workshop was well-attended, and the small convention room at the Institute of Education was packed with high-profile journalists and campaigners as well as ordinary citizens jostling for standing room. Cilius Victor from the Jean Charles de Menezes Campaign opened with a moving speech explaining the legacy of the shooting of [...]
Read →Conor Gearty and the “Convention of Cant”
Stephen Taylor: Conor Gearty accuses the Convention on Modern Liberty of inflating concern about civil liberties into a moral panic. His attack is a useful opportunity to dispel some comforting illusions.
First consider his jibe a police state or a “surveillance society” or whatever the latest colourful label is. The conflation is his; no one at the Convention claimed the [...]
The Politics of Liberty in the Age of “Liquid Democracy”
How can progressive organisations operating at the margins of mainstream politics make themselves effective post-crash? In a fascinating essay for openDemocracy, Gerry Hassan argues that they should nurture their “practice and ideas to the requirements of ‘liquid democracy’”.
What would ‘liquid democratic’ organisations look like? They would:
Have a sense of inhabiting spaces which both engage with the [...]
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