Well, this is fascinating. Shortly after I posted the commentary below I received a connection from an IP address which belongs to cellcom.co.il and geolocates to Haifa in Israel. That IP address directly, and specifically, requested a copy of my post entitled “more dumb legislation” immediately followed by a request for a copy of my …
February 2025 archive
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Feb 27 2025
more dumb legislation
On Tuesday of this week (25 February 2025) every major print newspaper in the UK carried an identical front page under the heading “Make it FAIR”. They did this in order to raise awareness of the impending legislation (currently in “consultation”) intended to change the law in the UK to favour big tech platforms in …
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Feb 07 2025
blog comments illegal – shock, horror
Well, not quite, but distinctly possible. El Reg has continued comment on the lunacies of the OSA I reported on in my last post. The Reg reports that one Neil Brown, a Director of a UK law firm, believes that individuals who run their own websites (so that would include me) could be held liable …
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Feb 01 2025
unintended consequences (or dumb legislation)
I mentioned in my (off normal topic) post of 15 November last year, that I am a member of a motorcycle forum. I am also a member of other online fora, but the bike forum is the only one I really engage with often enough to care about this latest bit of legislative stupidity. In …
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