Tag: internet

Written by HL Jones

Monday Moan – Big Brother Makes a Move

The government wants access to all electronic communication in the UK in order to fight pedophiles, terrorists, er… satan, aliens, and other things that are bad and scary.  Obviously, this is a big threat to civil rights and privacy.  Not every bad person is plotting on the Internet, believe it or not.  And let’s be […]

Written by HL Jones

I Want My Internet Back

My first brush with trouble from using the Internet came in the winter of 1995.  I was a 15 year old student and, arriving home from school, found my mother and father brandishing an official-looking letter, barely able to contain their shock.  My father bellowed “You’d better have a good explanation for this!” as I […]