Reasons for optimism in 2012
A contribution to Cosmopolitan’s January edition, on things to be grateful for in 2012.
#Jugcam – private, public and the paparazzification of the everyday
The point is not only a “real legitimate expectation of privacy”, but also that the bounds of what is private and what is public are being affected, where everyone you meet could take on a paparrazzi role. Yet we are not all celebrities, and it seems disingenuous to argue that we can treat any random female cricket spectator as if she were.
What happened to Plan A, Obama?
The overturning of an FDA recommendation to allow Plan B to be sold over-the-counter plays politics with the health of future generations of voters, all for the sake of unlikely gains in sympathy with this generation of voters.
TopTV plans to “release a flood of filth into our communities”
Errol Naidoo says that if “TopTV succeeds in launching porn channels in SA, It will open the floodgates for other broadcasters to open the sewers and release a flood of filth into our communities”, and is leading a proposed church boycott of the pay TV channel if they do go ahead.
Sometimes we’re just like the rest of us
Policy interventions need to be premised on non-arbitrary premises, which is part of the explanation for our reluctance to allow subjective moral standpoints or populist vote-seeking to influence what leaders like Helen Zille propose. But where the data do suggest that a certain course of action is justified, are we able to accept that we (as individuals) should be treated as anonymous data points in an aggregated dataset?
Recent comments