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Look, I'm not saying they aren't AWESOME, I'm just saying they are hypocrites.

I’ve just learned that Stephen Fry has had to cancel a trip to Japan because some jokes about Hiroshima and Nagasaki were made on his quiz show, QI.

Well, maybe it is too soon to be making jokes about the deaths of  200 000 civilians.

But can Japan really play the victim here?

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At least it wasn't a firewall.

Friends, it’s that time again.

Verizon is taking the FCC to court in order to battle for the right to restrict their users’ access to certain websites or services or to charge huge fees if you dare to use software that they don’t have a stake in.

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This picture has nothing to do with Fox. Except for the 'L'.

As many of you know I am not a fan of Fox News. They are blatantly biased in favour of the Republican Party, they openly manipulate the media narrative in order to mislead their viewers and when all else fails they just plain lie about things.

And since they’ve started promoting and assisting in the funding of a political organisation (the ironically named ‘Tea Party Movement’) they aren’t even journalists any more; they are propagandists.

Let’s face it, Fox News is an international laughing stock. They are the kind of ‘news’ station that gets cited as an example of how to do bad journalism. They would be completely ignorable if it wasn’t for one small detail: they are, without a doubt, the most popular and most influential American news station in existence.

It is for this reason that we must all continue to point out the mistakes, stupidities and outright lies of Fox News.

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