Posts Tagged ‘Home Office’

Joint letter to Home Secretary on social media blackouts

August 25th, 2011

As Twitter, Facebook and Research in Motion prepare to meet the Home Secretary, Index on Censorship and other human and digital rights campaigners ask to be included in discussions on social media blackouts

Joint Letter to Home Secretary

Leaks and whistleblowing: proposals do not go far enough

August 12th, 2009

Christopher Galley doubts that the latest recommendations will protect whistleblowers. Investigations into leaks need to be wholly independent of politics (more…)

Smith to defend ‘shock jock’ ban

June 1st, 2009

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to fight defamation procedures against her by radio DJ Michael Savage, who was barred from the UK. Read more here

This ‘banned list’ has no place in UK law

May 5th, 2009

padraigreidytimesTo stop people entering Britain because of what they may say while here is based on the concept of pre-emptive sanction says Padraig Reidy
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UK ‘least wanted’ list published

May 5th, 2009

The Home Office has released a list of sixteen people banned from entering the UK for their extremist views. The list includies Islamists, white supremacists and a right-wing US talk show host. Read more here

Setting the censorship standard

April 28th, 2009

julian
Thirty years on, the Williams Committee Report still provides a better framework for film classification than the lamentable Obscene Publications Act, says
Julian Petley
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‘A government more concerned with silencing critics than addressing its own failures’

April 21st, 2009

chris_huhneNews that anti-terror officers trawled Damian Green MP’s personal emails for information, including details of Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, has further highlighted the government’s worrying attitude to civil liberties, says
Chris Huhne MP
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