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Hannah Smith's death is being blamed by her father on online trolling

Trolls not going away as PM writes to suicide victim’s father

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I fought the law and the law lost: Online crime can be committed with virtual impunity, MPs say.

Black hole: E-crime can be committed with ‘impunity’

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Claire Perry's office would not confirm whether it was aware of the hacking attempt

Anti-porn Tory MP’s website flooded with porn

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"Unavoidable choice" to be made by all households

Households forced to choose: Do you want porn or not?

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Jane Fae: As firearms, so the internet. Every barrier put in place has led, to date, to an equal and increasingly sophisticated workaround, leaving the public less – not more protected.

Comment: Three bad ideas about sex and the internet

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David Cameron says households will face an "unavoidable choice" on pornography

David Cameron’s porn speech in full

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Internet search engines have until October, PM warns

Losing patience: No 10 threatens search engines over child porn

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MDU advises doctors on how to prevent a delayed diagnosis in prostate and testicular cancer

Doctors need time to digest the GMC’s more detailed guidance (MDG), says MDU.

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has expressed concern that doctors will have insufficient time to read and digest the General Medical Council’s (GMC) more detailed guidance (MDG) which has been published today and comes into effect on January 30th 2024, alongside the updated version of its ethical standards Good Medical Practice. The MDGs, cover a… Read more »

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Humanists UK welcomes Ofsted’s call to tackle illegal schools and improve RE

Ofsted has called on the Government to take action on illegal schools. The call came in Ofsted’s latest annual report, published yesterday. The report also highlighted that religious education (RE) provision in English state schools is ‘not fit for purpose’, and that independent faith schools perform very badly in Ofsted inspections. Humanists UK, which has led the… Read more »

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Jane Fae: What we define as sexual, and what we define as undesirable, matters greatly

Comment: We need to fight Facebook’s smut unilateralism

Facebook happily hosts the softer end of ‘smut’, while equally happily removing pages dedicated to breastfeeding. We should be able to debate what smut gets blocked online.

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Prism allegedly used internet companies' data

Don’t worry about being spied on – as long as you’re ‘law-abiding’

British citizens should not be alarmed by reports of the UK government accessing an American spying programme provided they are “law-abiding”, William Hague has said.

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