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Comment Is Linked: Asbos for Downloaders

November 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm

I am made of jam!

Lucky me! I’ve got another piece on Comment Is Free, in the Liberty Central section. Funnily enough, this may not be the strangest thing that happens today – if the other thing happens there may be a space-time paradox catastrophe event – you’ve been warned.

The piece is about whether or not it’s right for the Government to kick entire families off the internet without going through the courts (well, duh).

So here’s the key question: do we want to live in a society where people can be cut off from the internet without a trial, without a jury and without proving they committed any offence at all?

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