http://www.teleread.com/drm/e-book-snooping-and-additional-orwellian-actions-by-dc-drawing-closer-records-kept-of-some-travelers-reading/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:28:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/drm/e-book-snooping-and-additional-orwellian-actions-by-dc-drawing-closer-records-kept-of-some-travelers-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-542486 Carol Jurd Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:02:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7133#comment-542486 It's not just in the USA - some of you may have seen the "Berlin Wall" built in Sydney to keep the naughty Australian public away from the politicians attending the APEC summit. (You may also have seen that a bunch of comedians managed to breach this security!) Needless to say, our current Prime Minister is a close friend of George Bush. Nothing wrong with that, the USA and Australia have always had close ties, but they both seem to be getting more and more paranoid about any dissent or political freedom. Mercifully we have an election due very soon, the ultimate form of "free speech"! It’s not just in the USA – some of you may have seen the “Berlin Wall” built in Sydney to keep the naughty Australian public away from the politicians attending the APEC summit. (You may also have seen that a bunch of comedians managed to breach this security!) Needless to say, our current Prime Minister is a close friend of George Bush. Nothing wrong with that, the USA and Australia have always had close ties, but they both seem to be getting more and more paranoid about any dissent or political freedom. Mercifully we have an election due very soon, the ultimate form of “free speech”!

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