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Bloggers Versus Billionaire
Roger Whittaker writes "An interesting case in England is pitting the combined power of multiple bloggers against an Uzbek billionaire. The bloggers are supporting the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, who has written a book about what happened there after the fall of Communism. The book is apparently unflattering in the extreme to oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who has engaged the law firm Schillings (which seems to specialize in getting unfavorable Web content removed for rich clients). Their threats have led to the removal of Murray's blog site by his hosting company Fasthosts. But a large number of bloggers have taken up Murray's cause, and the content that caused the original complaint, and links to it, have now sprung up in a very large number of places. The Internet still seems to regard censorship as damage and route around it."
Yes, and we're going to buy our colony back, the Queen doesn't like what you've done with it.
Tell her to take it up with King George (the current one, not the one we managed to get off our back two centuries ago. This one is far more difficult to get rid of). We the people had little enough to do with his first election (he lost numerically, as proven in the recount), and there is mounting evidence (blackboxvoting.org) that he may have stolen the second one as well. If true, then we never elected him, and the only thing we're guilty of is not rising up in revolt when he usurped the throne^H^H^H^H^H white house.
Either way, he certainly has managed to devalue the currency, so the Queen is picking up quite a bargain.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
> But by being an aggressive prick -- he gets worldwide exposure and confirmation that he is an aggressive prick.
Hehe..this works with politics too. I'm just going out to get more beer and some popcorn - I hope the US doesn't invade Iran before I get back.