ethics & philosophy

ideals, breaches, disappointments and inspirations

BTW: “invasion”

By tigtog on 2011-06-30 • ( 7 )

I put up a post on LP about it yesterday. The discussion is mostly better than I feared.

QOTD: Louis CK on his HBO nudity

By tigtog on 2011-06-30 • ( 2 )

When I hired Pam, I didn’t tell her she was going to be doing anything like that. It wasn’t supposed to be that kind of show. So I said, “You know what, I’ll do it.”

Quick Hit – Gender Free Preschool

By Mindy on 2011-06-28 • ( 17 )

A gender neutral pre-school in Stockholm ruffles some feathers.

Pink vs the paparazzi: photostalkers and children’s privacy

By tigtog on 2011-06-28 • ( 3 )

So when you see our middle fingers up in all of our pictures, now you know the motivation. It’s all we can do to stop images of a newborn baby from being printed without our consent. Can you imagine a world where they would blur out our middle finger to protect a “consumer” over blurring out an innocent child to protect their integrity and privacy?

Quicklink: partial Australian web censorship starts in July

By tigtog on 2011-06-23 • ( 7 )

By “voluntary” they mean that the ISPs are filtering content identified as child abuse material voluntarily, not that they are giving their customers who don’t want to look at child abuse material anyway any choice about being gifted with a false sense of cybersecurity.

Anybody who says crap like this? Avoid them and warn others about them

By tigtog on 2011-06-14 • ( 11 )

*** TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR RAPE APOLOGISM, VICTIM BLAMING, SLUT SHAMING AND VIOLENT IMAGERY ***

Quickhit: Gay Girl in Damascus Amina Arraf is a pseudonym for American Tom MacMaster

By tigtog on 2011-06-13 • ( 14 )

Now the regime is going to be able to cast everything MacMaster wrote about what was happening in Syria as pure fiction, and real people who trusted Arraf have been endangered.

An Open Challenge to mainstream media re SlutWalk Sydney

By tigtog on 2011-06-12 • ( 15 )

Does a single one of you have the guts to forego predictable titillation and let the public know the truth about Slutwalk and the hundreds and hundreds of other women and male and queer allies who will be marching in non-skimpy wear, and why they are there? Or will it just be more sad head-shaking misrepresentation from your pundits?