I am referring to the two reports regarding Ben Westwood and The Criminal Justice
and Immigration Bill 2008, which comes into force in the New Year.

Jack Straw's attempts to cleanse artistic and grown-up discourse on sex, or shall
I call it porn - is getting on nerves, but he is one of the staunch survivors of the
Blairite New Christianity and utterly humourous about privacy issues.

 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/pandora/pandora-westwood-jnr-sweats-over-governments-pornography-clampdown-910761.html
and:

 http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/people,,ben-westwood,42128

(Where would we be without Mapplethorpe, though it depends on yer taste,
personally I like Nobuyoshi Arakii:)

 http://www.assembly/language.com/reviews/arakii.html

(His Polaroid series is very good)

Of course with hegemonic xtianity and the view that women are incapable of either
producing, consuming or making porn- it becomes quite easy-peasy for
puritanical sorts who dominate both press and parliament to suggest to us
-What Women Like to Do- and the whole pornography argument is hived off into
the consumerist crap that hides a multitude in diversity.

or we could all just go and read Thorwald Dethlefsen on 'Gute and Bose'
and realise that utopias based in the limited experience of some political
classes are by their very virtue quite simply grounded in business, control,
propaganda and the usual toxicity of control- and oppose the continuance
of Government inroads into creativity and individuation. In Ireland our government
controls Arts Funding and Discourse and has been doing so since it instituted
the Arts Act 2003- any repeal is doubtful given the complacency at the
heart of it's deeply anti-cultural stance.

Tech Sharing Systems (cos censorship pisses me off)


Psiphon;--- http://psiphon.civisec.org
Martus:---- https://tornado.he.net/cgi-bin/suid/~martus/download.cgi

These packages allow users access to blocked sites in countries where the
internet is censored. Through software application anyone in a non-censored
country can turn their regular computer into a server which can be accessed by
users in censored countries.