Posts Tagged ‘ rights ’

bm260 The Other Side of the Filesharing Debate

April 30, 2008

Following the recent podcast on licences, filesharing, and the pirate bay, I received alot of strong feedback with both opinions that were similar and also very different from those that Peter brought forth.  This podcast features musician and podcaster Michael Harren aka Mikeypod, who talks about things like licenses...

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bm235 Online Community and State of Emergency

November 18, 2007

At a time when the Pakistani government is using the state of emergency declaration to crack down on opposition and media, many citizens are turning to the internet. Amer Sarfraz, one of the people responsible for the Pakistani online community Buzzvines, joins me to describe life under the...

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Inviting Friends in Pakistan

Inviting Friends in Pakistan

November 6, 2007

Upon arrival in Brussels today I was pleased to receive an email from the Pakistani blog community I had written to, requesting their participation in an upcoming podcast about what people are writing about during this "state of emergency." Throughout the long train ride today, it seemed like every...

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bmtv59 Majority Rule

bmtv59 Majority Rule

October 9, 2007

In Federalist Paper Number 10, James Madison warned of the dangers posed by majority rule or small groups of people being able to control a nation. On today's internet we are once again faced with the tyranny of the majority in the form of popularity. Any site...

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Instant Debate – Mention Islam to Europeans

Instant Debate – Mention Islam to Europeans

September 18, 2007

It is certainly no new discovery, but as you can see from my vlog entry about the far-right demonstration in Brussels, a sure way to get people commenting and yelling (well not really yelling) at you is to defend people's right to be muslim. So while I've lots of...

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