Category: Videos

A brilliant interview between John Oliver and General Keith Alexander

Post author By Christopher Parsons
Post date April 29, 2014

Tags Interview, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

Videos

Why the Cyberbullying Law is a Lie

Post author By Christopher Parsons
Post date April 28, 2014

Definitely one of the better (and more accessible) discussions of Bill C-13, aka the federal government of Canada’s lawful-access-in-disguise-legislation. Of note: that piece of legislation is “now under a time allocation order that will likely see it sent to committee by mid-week.” If the Committee is rushed, then it’s entirely plausible the legislation could be passed into law before this session of parliament closes for the summer.

Tags Bullying, Canada, Lawful Access, Surveillance

Videos

TVO: Beyond the Blinders

Post author By Christopher Parsons
Post date March 20, 2014

So, I pointed to some of the issues with Steve Paikin’s comments a few days ago. Recap: he posted to his blog that he had significant problems getting women onto his program, and used some insensitive/poorly considered language in expressing why he thought TVO was facing challenges.

TVO’s put on a show that (more or less) takes Paikin to task. It’s worth a watch, and it reveals both how Paikin views the challenges of booking as well as a set of women who take him to task. More discussions like this need to happen, and at length, in more of our popular media venues.