Slashdot Mirror

I don't think those pesky European privacy laws are working very well in the UK at least

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Council-pockets-over-1000-selling-voters-personal-details-20130903174019.htm

"Councils up and down the country have made thousands of pounds after registers of votersâ(TM) names and addresses were sold to the marketing firms, driving schools and estate agents."

The electoral register is available for anybody to view in person. But by selling an edited database of the information, councils are helping companies to send out thousands of unsolicited letters with a few clicks of a computer mouse.

Bedford Borough Council has defended its actions, stating: "The fee is set nationally, by law, and we are legally obliged by the government to sell the data on the edited register unless individuals chose to opt-out.â

It's not expensive either bringing in just £1300 in 5 years from all the sales combined.

The way Obam's White House acted in this case (and many other cases) reminds me of how Mussolini acted in his "white house".

Do you really think someone in the White House specifically directed this, as opposed to someone lower down the chain of command?

You don't think that maybe, there might be an old policy already in place that people who make threats against U.S. government officials are banned from entering the U.S.?

Let's be aware that the TFA linked to is from The Sun, which is a Rupert Murdoch mouthpiece -- it's less reliable, and its target audience several IQ points lower, than Fox News.

There was, by Angel's admission, more to the note than calling Obama a prick:

He said that he had called President Obama a 'p***k' but when asked if the action taken to ban him from going to America 'forever' was extreme, Mr Angel said he had been more abusive than that.

The teenager added that he had been watching some conspiracy theory programmes such as the ones about 9/11 and had been researching the Illuminati - a lot of which he believed in.

If this doofus is a 9/11 "truther" and a conspiracy theory nut, I have no problem believing that there was much more threatening content than just calling Obama a prick.

Of course, if you really think Obama is comparable to Mussolini, you and Angel would probably be fast friends.

The Sun is not the originator of the piece. Try http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Teen-is-banned-from-USA-over-Obama-hate-email.htm - the Sun is just one of many larger news outlets reposting it.

And if you - young, drunk and foolish - threaten the US President with a nasty email, you shouldn't be banned for life from an entire country.

Actually, the original article is from Bedfordshire News. http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Teen-is-banned-from-USA-over-Obama-hate-email.htm

The fucking son?

No, The Sun & I'm guessing they copied it from his local newspaper; besides the BBC are reporting on it now, so it's probably true. Just not quite in the way that the sun reported it.

His local Newspaper (most likely where the Sun stole the story from) is heavier on facts; there are also links to the BBC's reporting in other threads on this page

So we actually learn more about our own media from this story than the story itself. A responsible media wouldn't publish a story like this until they actually had the FACTS. What did the kid really say? He is obviously lying in the quote. This is a biased one sided story with no fact checking or research. It's an inflammatory headline grab trying to manipulate their audience. They are just looking to grab eyes with headlines that have no meaning.

His local Newspaper is heavier on facts than the Sun; so what we actually learn is that the Sun doesn't report news properly, but we knew that already.

Do you really think this happened? or do you think someone taught to 'teach the controversy' and not facts just found a piece of crap from the Sun and submitted it?

Nah, it really happened - the Sun ripped it from his local newspaper: http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Teen-is-banned-from-USA-over-Obama-hate-email.htm

This is the actual source article: http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Teen-is-banned-from-USA-over-Obama-hate-email.htm

The ORIGINAL article was actually published in the local paper on Sunday 12/09/2010 http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Teen-is-banned-from-USA-over-Obama-hate-email.htm It also says he was "drunk and hgh" conveniently left out of the "Nationals"...

I quite like the way that the local paper says he was "drunk and high" but this is left out of the "Nationals" http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Teen-is-banned-from-USA-over-Obama-hate-email.htm