Category: Hypocrisy
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Instagram, "freedom", freedom, illusions...
Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification. Unless users delete their Instagram accounts by a deadline of 16 January, they cannot opt out. The move riled social media users, with one likening it to a "suicide note". Most users have fiercely reacted to…
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Western civilization - The Sum of All Hypocrisy
Yes, we Westerners are hypocrits. We think we know better. We think we are the only ones who are "civilized". We think we are the only ones who know of human rights. We think we are the only ones who have the right to judge others (and invade their countries if we wish). But enough…
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Forgiving Turing. Not the same as Galileo... (?)
Some of Britain's leading scientists have called on the government to grant a posthumous pardon to Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing. Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after acknowledging a sexual relationship with a man. Professor Stephen Hawking, Astronomer Royal Lord Rees and the Royal Society's Sir Paul Nurse are among 11 signatories to…
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Bravo Mo Yan! (or the Censorship of hypocrisy...)
Chinese writer Mo Yan winning the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature is making headline news in China, with an overwhelming amount of praise, but also controversy, among internet users. [1] Many people critisize Mo Yan, claiming that he is in favor of censorship as applied by the official Chinese government - e.g. to other Chinese…
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