Friday, 17 April 2009

Policing, or...?


The G20 experience - a view from the rampART via Amelia

1 comment:

John Grant said...

more follow up on policing of g20 on the bbc

a review of the controversial 'kettling' police tactic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8000641.stm

a third assault (by police) case
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8005966.stm

meanwhile a blog story I was about to write turns out to have accoured to lots of others eg cory at boing boing; that this represents a turning point where the numbers of cameras we are pointing back outweigh the surveilliance

a key point is that we have the distributed open source ability to filter this content whereas a centralised big brother style outfit never would

the world is watching