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In his book “The Internet is Not the Answer” Andrew Keen says that the internet started well in the 1970s and 80s when it was controlled by publicly funded technologists who worked for scientiific advancement and national security. The rot, he says, set in during the 1990s, when control was ceded to commercial internet service …
The disruptive taxi app firm, Uber, is up to its ears in regulatory disputes with authorities from Brussels to Guangzhou. It now appears that Uber may have been hacked. US authorities are investigating a spate of claims from users that they have been charged for “phantom” cab rides they neither booked nor made. One user …
A recent BBC documentary about a notorious Delhi gang rape tells the harrowing story of the rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old medical student, on a bus in 2012. But it also exposes the attitudes that made the crime possible. One of the men sentenced to hang for his part in it, Mukesh …
Vulgar language seems now to be acceptable to a portion of the population. In the not-so-old days the use of bad language and the constant use of the word beginning f… were regarded as a sign of lack of education, low-class, know-nothing pub talk. It used to to be considered polite to guard your tongue. …
Women seeking to join the Indonesian military are required to strip naked and have their genitalia manually examined by a doctor, purportedly to ensure that they are virgins. Following protests by Human Rights Watch, Indonesia’s top military commander, General Moeldoko, defended the “virginity test”. He conceded that there was no direct link between a woman …
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