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Fourth Amendment to what?

Some of your readers may not be as familiar with the American Constitution as, well, Americans. Perhaps some of your readers might have appreciated this link:...

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Felix Salmon is a yank?

I think he's actually a subject of your Queen.

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hypothes.is

The world wide web is the repository. That was Tim Berners-Lee's vision. You may be interested in hypothes.is which aims to provide open, web-based peer review for pretty much anything.

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Re: Re: Collateral damage

Please don't delete your Flickr account or you make any inbound links to your photos invalid, which is the problem Dave Gorman is complaining about. By all means abandon it and use another site, but...

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Replacement for Jon Postel

The nearest thing we have as a replacement for Jon Postel is the Internet Society. In a sane world, IANA would be run by the Internet Society from tomorrow. http://www.internetsociety.org/ Of course we...

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Copyright killing innovation

If this furore, however groundless, harms Pinterest then it's a good example of repressive copyright law killing innovation. The effect may be indirect but the root cause is clear.

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This just affects non-US users of Flickr

For US users, Flickr has always restored the picture as it was. This crazy policy has only affected non-US users. It was first raised 3 years ago, but Flickr refused to change their policy until a...

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HTTPS decryption

Charles Farr's remark probably means they have penetrated (or come to an arrangement with) the Certificate Authorities. In other words, the secure channel you think you've established with a web site...

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Re: Private communication

People prepared to jump through the hoops you describe are not the target. They already know how to evade surveillance. This bill is bringing the internet and postal service into line with what the...

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So we can look forward to the government publishing the NHS Risk Register? :-)

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Re: Payment

Not exactly a paper trail, but I know what you mean. Beware of thinking BitCoin is anonymous. It isn't unless you take appropriate steps.

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Packet inspection? No, just envelope inspection

"Letters, telephone calls, email and the Web -- this is a level of total surveillance that countries like China, North Korea or Iran can only dream of." This is misleading. The countries you mention...

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DNS blocking

Fourteen countries. You forgot the United Kingdom: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/05/the-pirate-bay-to-be-blocked-i.html

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Better the devil you know

"It was built in a bottom up manner, mainly by engineers, not bureaucrats" This is the view trotted out by all Americans who want the US to retain control of the internet. I don't support the ITU's...

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Do not assume anything of the sort

"Of course, you also have to assume that this original deal was not one-sided."You should not assume any such thing. The UK has a history of rolling over and letting the Septics have whatever they want...

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Fourth Amendment to what?

Some of your readers may not be as familiar with the American Constitution as, well, Americans. Perhaps some of your readers might have appreciated this link:...

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Felix Salmon is a yank?

I think he's actually a subject of your Queen.

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hypothes.is

The world wide web is the repository. That was Tim Berners-Lee's vision. You may be interested in hypothes.is which aims to provide open, web-based peer review for pretty much anything.

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Re: Re: Collateral damage

Please don't delete your Flickr account or you make any inbound links to your photos invalid, which is the problem Dave Gorman is complaining about. By all means abandon it and use another site, but...

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Replacement for Jon Postel

The nearest thing we have as a replacement for Jon Postel is the Internet Society. In a sane world, IANA would be run by the Internet Society from tomorrow. http://www.internetsociety.org/ Of course we...

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