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Darth Walrus posted:Remind me, why's the job of Whittingdale's girlfriend such a big deal again? Was she engaged in the less legal elements of prostitution? It's not really, and under normal circumstances I think most of us would have read the story, said 'so what?' and that would be the end. But the fact that the newspapers (who at this moment are gagging at the bit to write a blow by blow account of a really not very well known celebrities completely legal and consensual threesome) all decided that salubrious details of a ministers sex life aren't actually very interesting at all and not worth writing about because the man who actually has power and isn't a singer/actor/footballer has a right to privacy goddamnit is very odd. Edit: In 1959 the Obscene Publications Act became law. hookerbot 5000 fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Yeah, I really can;t work out why I'm even close to supposed to care that an MP is in a relationship with an escort except for the vanishingly small blackmail possibilities which admittedly no longer really exist. Unless there's something more to it it really has the feel of trying to find something to distract from #DodgyDave.
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Darth Walrus posted:Remind me, why's the job of Whittingdale's girlfriend such a big deal again? Was she engaged in the less legal elements of prostitution? The BBC has a decent explanation of why anyone should care quote:John Whittingdale and the press Peter Jukes, founder of Byline, also had this to say https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/720190188522237956 Brown Moses fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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thespaceinvader posted:Yeah, I really can;t work out why I'm even close to supposed to care that an MP is in a relationship with an escort except for the vanishingly small blackmail possibilities which admittedly no longer really exist. He's not just an MP though. He's the person in charge of deciding whether to make press regulation more thorough
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Jose posted:He's not just an MP though. He's the person in charge of deciding whether to make press regulation more thorough Who was being blackmailed by the press, or potentially so, that makes more sense. Thanks. Brown Moses posted:The BBC has a decent explanation of why anyone should care As regards the Hedley Lamarr tweet, surely it's possible that a prosttute might, you know, LIE about what she does when she's in a relationship with someone?
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josh04 posted:Don't know if anyone from here attended, but I was filming at the Downing St. protest last saturday and made another short film: I know this is from a few pages ago but don't film people who are bloked up and post it on the internet, fucks sake. http://rabble.org.uk/in-defence-of-smashing-cameras/
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Harley C posted:I recently moved to London and became an Dual British Citizen. Upon paying 3 months of rent Uh...how did you achieve this? It's going to take my wife about five years to do that 
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The worry is that the press (which Whittingdale is in charge of regulating) know about the story and could blackmail him with it were he to make decisions they didn't like.
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thespaceinvader posted:Who was being blackmailed by the press, or potentially so, that makes more sense. Thanks. It's been alleged in the weeks leading up to the press running the story that he knew what she did as did other MPs and she was handing out business cards in the HoP. The moral outcry about her work is the actual smokescreen. This is about press regulation.
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ultrabindu posted:https://twitter.com/RealNatalieRowe/status/720182951175200771 someone's house is getting raided again
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feedmegin posted:Uh...how did you achieve this? It's going to take my wife about five years to do that
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Poor Dave looks a bit tired.
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Darth Walrus posted:Remind me, why's the job of Whittingdale's girlfriend such a big deal again? Was she engaged in the less legal elements of prostitution? A tory mp had sex with a consenting adult. That's pretty unusual, so it makes the headlines.
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Quote-Unquote posted:A tory mp had sex with a consenting adult. That's pretty unusual, so it makes the headlines. Oh no it won't! *cackles*
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Blacknose posted:I know this is from a few pages ago but don't film people who are bloked up and post it on the internet, fucks sake. I'm aware of the potential for causing harm and try to be appropriately cautious. If they were involved in an action or it were difficult to pick them out outside of me filming, I'd exercise caution, but these folks were five metres from Downing St, standing up in a crowd of seated people, waving a twenty foot anarchist flag. I don't think there's much scope for me letting anything slip through filming which was not already apparent.
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josh04 posted:I'm aware of the potential for causing harm and try to be appropriately cautious. If they were involved in an action or it were difficult to pick them out outside of me filming, I'd exercise caution, but these folks were five metres from Downing St, standing up in a crowd of seated people, waving a twenty foot anarchist flag. I don't think there's much scope for me letting anything slip through filming which was not already apparent. I love how that article doesn't consider the use of journalist photos and videos as a way of keeping tabs on the police, as has happened at lots of recent demos and protests. We've caught the Met being bellends on more than one occasion.
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It skims over it, but considers the danger of police analysis of the mass of crowdsourced data a bigger concern. Which it probably is, but how do you put that genie back in the bottle? e: I took it out, but I had a shot of someone filming the crowd with a cameraphone which gets spoiled by someone else with a cameraphone filming the crowd moving directly between us. josh04 fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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thehustler posted:I love how that article doesn't consider the use of journalist photos and videos as a way of keeping tabs on the police, as has happened at lots of recent demos and protests. We've caught the Met being bellends on more than one occasion. at the last dover demo a couple weeks back we saw a bunch of plain clothes cops sneaking back behind police lines after mingling in the crowd for a while. I've proposed to my group that we go back through video taken by activists, try to get mugshots of the plainclothes police and publish them to Crabgrass or something. There are uses for activist-led recording of demos, but ideally it's going to be delegated to specific people who know how to edit their footage to protect activists. Dickheads who just turn up with a GoPro and iPad and start filming everything (I've seen this more than once) and everybody despite being asked not to deserve to get their poo poo smashed.
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Harley C posted:Actually they are both my own governments, and from my perspective England has a significantly shittier more corrupt one. Two votes are better than one. I'm afraid we don't have any actual concentration camps that I know of. We are lovely but we are not yet Australia levels of lovely.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm afraid we don't have any actual concentration camps that I know of. We are lovely but we are not yet Australia levels of lovely. we have detention camps for refugees and migrants facing deportation, and I believe we may have managed to get some of those detainees raped or killed in custody, so we're trying, drat it.
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The UK has managed to become terrified of boats over the past 12 months too, but not as badly as Australia. Keep on reaching for that poo poo filled trophy, British press.
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was it our government or the australian government where all the people in one of the detention centres asked for permission to kill themselves because it was so horrible?
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Oberleutnant posted:we have detention camps for refugees and migrants facing deportation, and I believe we may have managed to get some of those detainees raped or killed in custody, so we're trying, drat it. riots kicked off in the local one after a staff member was caught and not fired for rape australias detainees just beg for death offshore swings and roundabouts
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Jose posted:was it our government or the australian government where all the people in one of the detention centres asked for permission to kill themselves because it was so horrible? I believe that one was Australia.
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Oberleutnant posted:Dickheads who just turn up with a GoPro and iPad and start filming everything (I've seen this more than once) and everybody despite being asked not to deserve to get their poo poo smashed. So people who are legally filming in public deserve to be assaulted because you don't like what they're doing? Remind me which side of this grubby little squabble you're on again?
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Pissflaps posted:this grubby little squabble
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Oberleutnant posted:Flaps's hot take on racism and xenophobia in 2016. Nice, nice. There's nothing new about two sets of hooligans running around towns, it just has less to do with football than it used to.
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Pissflaps posted:There's nothing new about two sets of hooligans running around towns, it just has less to do with football than it used to. gently caress off, you wretched little turd (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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What would you do if an immigrant turned up and started filming everything, smash all their stuff regardless?
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Oberleutnant posted:gently caress off, you wretched little turd You're going to get your V for Vendetta mask all soggy.
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Crashbee posted:What would you do if an immigrant turned up and started filming everything, smash all their stuff regardless? We haven't smashed anything yet - we've warned a specific individual repeatedly (like, he was warned in January Dover, then Liverpool, then was seen filming again in this last Dover), and he refuses to listen, and his group can't seem to control him. Also, there are usually fluffy demos for people not engaged in militant activity, people can film with them all they want. AFN demos are usually self-contained and have their own rally points and structure because of the knowledge that fluffies won't want to get involved in the same activity as AFN members. If you're turning up to an AFN demo you're travelling on AFN transport and a member of an AFN group, and are expected to not film other activists. communism bitch fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Crashbee posted:What would you do if an immigrant turned up and started filming everything, smash all their stuff regardless?
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Can't say I have the greatest of sympathy for people turning up at antifash actions and treating them like a blogging adventure.
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The Remain campaign is off to a good start: http://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyashton/can-i-ask-eu-a-favour quote:Young people are being urged to pick up the phone or send an e-card to their grandparents to persuade them to vote Remain in the upcoming EU referendum.  
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If you take pictures at Antifa protests you're basically doing Redwatch's job for them. Congratulations, you're a fascist collaborator.
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dispatch_async posted:The Remain campaign is off to a good start: The idea is pretty good, too bad the execution is loving awful.
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Oberleutnant posted:We haven't smashed anything yet - we've warned a specific individual repeatedly (like, he was warned in January Dover, then Liverpool, then was seen filming again in this last Dover), and he refuses to listen, and his group can't seem to control him. Dickhead with a gopro strapped to his forehead?
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