The Policeman's Blog

Today I mentioned a policeman's blog, in which he writes about how the police are inefficient in various ways. The police authorities don't like it.

Here's a link to the entry where he has a go at the Brackley police and the cliches of their Operation Viking mission statement.

Did you know you lived In da Ghetto?

Spy Blog

Probably my favourite blog at the moment is this one, Spy Blog.
This recent article is quite worrying... Is it a step towards an 'Enabling Act' ?
And then this – one can be arrested for lobbying for 'the wrong side'.

I do worry...

Can the Internet be controlled?

China wants to censor the Internet:

BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao launched a campaign to rid the country's sprawling internet of "unhealthy" content and make it a springboard for Communist Party doctrine, state television reported.

With Hu presiding, the Communist Party Politburo – its 24-member inner council – discussed cleaning up the internet, state television reported. The meeting promised to place the often unruly medium more firmly under propaganda controls.

The full story is at:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4036816a4560.html

Does the Chinese government have any hope of succeeding
a) in the short term?
b) in the long term?

Or will the nature of the medium defeat the efforts of the controllers?