The Home Office must stop deporting Iranian gays and lesbians
The Home Office claims a gay person can return to Iran and avoid persecution by being ‘discreet’. Old queens in positions of power within the civil service are obviously harking back to the good old pre-1967 days here in the UK, when the only chance of getting a gay date was via a public toilet pick-up. With the exception of Quentin Crisp and Joe Orton, homosexuals were, for the most part, very discreet in those times. They lived secret lives, looking for love under cover of darkness, often suffering from depression, self-hate and other nasties as a consequence of our then-society’s persecution and stereotyping of same-sex relationships and behaviours.
tags: asylum seekers, bisexuals, death, freedom, gays, Home Office, human rights, immigration, Labour, lesbians, persecution, tortureUK ISPs to spy on all web traffic to your home (if you let them get away with it)
If you’re a BT Broadband customer, watch out! The company intends to track the websites visited by 10,000 customers (eventually all of them) and hit them with targeted ads. This is to secure extra revenue, of course. Virgin Media and the (always dubious) Carphone Warehouse will be getting their act together later in the year to pull the same trick, which may be illegal under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). One expert believes it will only be legal is if ISPs obtain prior consent from the users they want to spy on.
tags: advertisements, BT, Carphone Warehouse, criminality, human rights, Internet, spying, Virgin Media
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