Vote for Oscar!

August 29th, 2008, 13:41 | 2 comments

For the ninth year in a row, the internet magazine Politics Online will select the The Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics.

Or rather, you will select them, choosing from the 25 finalists on their site. It’s a diverse crowd, stretching from world celebrities like Barack Obama to less famous ones.

One of the less famous, at least internationally, is the Swedish economist and critical blogger Oscar Swartz. Mainly through his blog, he’s been one of the driving forces behind the “blog quake” that made the proposal and subsequent passing of a new surveillance law the most discussed political issue in a long time in Sweden. The government tried the whole summer to suppress the widespread resistance against the law, but it seems now it might be repealed, and when or if that happens, Oscar’s non-profit work will have contributed immensily.

Oscar has always been a strong defender of integrity and a critic of too much state intervention, not the least in the debate about filesharing and The Pirate Bay. He founded Sweden’s first ISP Bahnhof in 1994, which is still the only ISP in Sweden which markets it services with arguments about integrity.

Furthermore, I enjoy the privilege of being Oscar’s friend.

Vote for him here!

Category: News & Politics

Tony Duvert is dead

August 23rd, 2008, 18:46 | 5 comments

French writer Tony Duvert (1945-2008) was found dead in his home on Wednesday, August 20, reports Le Monde today. An investigation suggests he died from natural reasons.

An advocate of adolescents’ and even children’s rights to sex, Duvert can be seen as a symbol for the sexually liberal seventies.

Category: News & Politics

Gay memorial in Berlin vandalised

August 17th, 2008, 19:39 | 16 comments

The memorial of homosexuals persecuted in the Nazi era was vandalised tonight.

The memorial consists of a heavy piece of concrete with a monitor showing a film of two men kissing. Someone had crushed the monitor.

The next day, a sign informed the visitors that the film wasn’t showing correctly due to a “technical problem”. The message was signed by Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, the administration of the big Holocaust Memorial. That memorial was supposed to cover all groups murdered by the Nazis, but after protests it was decided it would only commemorate Jewish victims. That’s why the gays got their own memorial on the other side of the street, half covered by the bushes of Tiergarten (quite fitting I must admit) and apparently out of sight from the police officers who watch the Jews’ memorial 24/7.

I’m often critical of the gay movement and to the very idea of sexual identities. But I think it’s important to react against vile actions towards a certain group. The vandalising of the gay memorial is proof of its brilliant execution – two men kissing may be seen as lame by some, but is apparently enough to provoke violence.

Out of order.

Close-up on the technical problem.

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