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Samizdata quote of the day There are two phrases that we rarely hear these days: “it’s a free country” and “there ought to be a law against it”. We do not hear these any more for the simple reason that we are no longer a free country, and more often than not there is a law about it.
– Nigel Farage
(link is to the Daily Telegraph so some overseas readers may issues accessing it)
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If Facebook matched the Rube Goldberg user-unfriendliness of government, users would have to have advanced programming knowledge to activate and update their accounts.
As I posted in a comment on a post below, killing cookies with domain *telegraph* seems to defeat the paywall.
Paradoxes to the left of ’em, paradoxes to the right of ’em into the darkness of stupidity charged the Bogans
FYI, I had no problem opening the linked article (in the US).
Good piece on the assault on press freedom by parts of our wonderful political classes, here, by Ben Brogan in the Telegraph.(Link)
You sure don’t here it ’round here any more…
Nigel Farage is correct.
I think I will start saying, “It’s a free country” more — with as little irony as I can muster.