"...The best solution, in my opinion, is to regulate it. Then you can
control it. The only ID a dealer needs to see now is a £20 note. If you
had to go to a shop [to buy it], you would no doubt need to prove how
old you were. If you had difficulties, you could get advice about it.
Prohibition is not control at all. It's just shoving it under the carpet
and trying to ignore it; a foolhardy idea."
Cyber threats, hacker attacks and laws officially aiming to tackle
internet piracy, but in fact infringing people's rights to online
privacy. It's an increasingly topical subject - and the world's most
famous whistleblower is aiming to get to the heart of it. In the latest
edition of his interview program here on RT, Julian Assange gets
together with activists from the Cypherpunk movement - Andy
Müller-Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmermann, and Jacob Appelbaum.
At a sunny flea market, Robin tries to sell her own
made-up stories. As she tells one of her stories with increasing
confidence to a potential customer, all the main characters come alive
and anxiously listen in.
This short children's animation has lead in the movie 'The Smurfs' in
all Pathe Cinemas in the Netherlands as part of the Ultrakort 2
initiative by The Netherlands Film Fund and Pathe.
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Three-part series about the history of punk. Daydreaming England was
about to be rudely awakened as punk emerged from the London underground
scene and a nation dropped its dinner in its lap when the Sex Pistols
swore on primetime television. Punk had finally found its enemy - the
establishment. It began to extend its three-chord vocabulary through an
alliance with reggae, captured by the Clash on White Man in Hammersmith
Palais. A disastrous PR stunt by the Pistols on a Thames barge marked a
turning point - the darker underbelly of the summer of '77 saw race
riots in Lewisham, the backdrop for a rawer, working class sound. By '78
punk was becoming a costume - the pop orthodoxy it had originally
sought to destroy. For many punk ended when the Pistols split, beset by
internal problems, following an abortive US tour in January '78. Those
practitioners who would go on to enjoy sustained success sought to
modify their sound to survive, such as Siouxsie Sioux, leading to the
post-punk era