Posted by cabalamat on 2009-Feb-28
The Daily Mail writes about a hideous case of a young girl working as a prostitute:
A 15-year-old schoolgirl earned almost £100,000 a year working as a high-class prostitute, it was revealed yesterday. By day the teenager attended classes but at night she was regularly paid hundreds of pounds for sex.
The girl, who cannot be identified because of her age, is believed to have been working for an escort agency based in Newcastle. She lied about her age before going on to earn £1,700 a week, meeting dozens of men on school nights and at the weekend. Her double life was exposed in November when a suspicious teacher searched her schoolbag and found condoms, a card with the name of her pimp and details of the agency she worked for.
This girl is clearly a victim who has been lured into the degrading world of prostitution, coerced into doing it by being paid lots of money. Girls and woman who are prostitutes are being victimised by men, who are to blame since the prostitutes themselves don’t understand what’s going on. As Wendy Shepherd of Barnardo’s Sexual Exploitation Children Outreach Services says, many young children are being abused:
It is not unusual that young people are coerced and groomed into sexually exploitative relationships and they don’t always understand fully what is happening.
Or as Michelle Elliott of Kidscape put it:
This is absolutely shocking. I feel desperately sorry for the girl involved. She is, like the others, a victim. It does make you wonder what her motivation was for selling herself.
Was it because she was abused herself as many prostitutes have been?
If anyone would like to shockingly coerce, abuse, exploit and victimise me by paying me £1700 a week for a part time job, can they please get in touch.
(via Boatang and Demetriou)
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Posted by cabalamat on 2009-Feb-28
Regarding the ongoing trial of the people behind The Pirate Bay, the entertainment industry have released this message:
(from The Pirate Bay)
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Posted by cabalamat on 2009-Feb-27
The Australian government has been forced to end its plans to censor the Internet:
Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end
The Government’s plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has effectively been scuttled, following an independent senator’s decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started.
The Opposition’s communications spokesman Nick Minchin has this week obtained independent legal advice saying that if the Government is to pursue a mandatory filtering regime “legislation of some sort will almost certainly be required”.
Senator Nick Xenophon previously indicated he may support a filter that blocks online gambling websites but in a phone interview today he withdrew all support, saying “the more evidence that’s come out, the more questions there are on this”.
The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has consistently ignored advice from a host of technical experts saying the filters would slow the internet, block legitimate sites, be easily bypassed and fall short of capturing all of the nasty content available online.
Success!
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Posted by cabalamat on 2009-Feb-26
Norway’s Minister of Education and Research, Bård Vegar Solhjell, like file sharing and wants to legalise it:
Earlier this week the music industry, headed by the IFPI, gave Norway’s largest Internet provider an ultimatum; block access to The Pirate Bay within 14 days or we will take you to court.
ISPs have criticized IFPI’s move, and Pirate Bay’s spokesman Peter Sunde said that “the crazy people behind IFPI should be stopped.” Bård Vegar Solhjell, Minister of Education and Research in Norway sides with Peter in this assessment, as he vouches for the legalization of file-sharing.
In a recent blog post, the minister who is a member of the Socialist Left Party (SV), said that file-sharing is genius, and a great way to discover and access music. “You and I can get access to all the world’s music when we want. Fantastic!” Solhjell wrote on his weblog.
I think this shows which way the wind is blowing. Politicians are beginning to realise that file sharing isn’t going away, that millions of people (read: voters) do it and like it, and it’s best to accept the situation and realise that much good comes of it. For example, Britain’s David Lammy recently rejected harsh action against file-sharers, saying “We can’t have a system where we’re talking about arresting teenagers in their bedrooms”.
Posted in Norway, RIAA, censorship, digital rights, filesharing | Tagged: IFPI, The Pirate Bay | Leave a Comment »
Posted by cabalamat on 2009-Feb-25
From the Daily Mash:
POLICE forces across the UK are looking forward to cracking dozens of middle class skulls this summer, a senior officer said yesterday.
“A lot of my lads were too young for the poll tax riots and so this could be their only chance to knock the absolute living shit out of a Guardian reader. Ideally it’ll be the sort of people who have fancy dinner parties, with their Le Creuset pots and their Cloudy Bay and their nonce friends, passing round the marijuana cigarettes and raising money for Hezbollah.”
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