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One of the reasons Techdirt rails against exaggerated responses to supposed terrorist threats is that it has caused police forces around ...

Remember how the poor darlings in the UK government absolutely *had to* allow interception of all our online activities so that those plucky...

..of utter, inane stupidity. Here's the grand summing-up of Brown's "new level": Terrorism threatens the rights that all...

There's a nasty rash of congruent memes going around government circles: they're all coming up with fiendish new ways to wage the no...

This stuff is getting, er, interesting : There are already whispers circulating that “amended” copies of the BNP member list are doing the r...

Excellent in-depth analysis of all that is wrong with this deeply-flawed bill here .

Watch this trick : The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal informati...

...but fear itself : Americans' fear of a terrorism could create a mass outbreak of a psychosomatic illness -- even in absence of any re...

Oh look, you start down the slippery path of declaring war on abstract nouns, and you end up with pusillanimous mindlessness like this: An ...

Bruce Schneier has some has his usual wise words on the subject of "terror": Terrorism is a heinous crime, and a serious internat...

This spinelessness is just sickening in the extreme: The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowi...

Madness : A bus-spotter says it is no longer safe to practise his hobby of 40 years after being branded a terrorist and a paedophile. Rob Mc...

Quite .

Look out - the UK Government (or parts of it) are suffering an attack of common-sense : President George W Bush's concept of a "war...

After the War on Drugs, and the War on Terror, now, it seems, we are to have a War on Botnets : Mr Toure said that whatever the solution, th...

Blimey , there's hope yet: London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered on July 7 2005 were not victims of war. And th...

I'm not keen on the term 'pirates' when applied to people who copy content; its one of those blatant attempts to pre-empt the de...