'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Con Duncan, Journalist

Law student, digital rights activist, musician, writer. If whiskey interferes with your business, give up your business. Don’t always believe what you read - I don’t always believe what I write.

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2016: Swan Song Of Truth
What a year it has been..
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The (Over-Polished) Sound Of Music
Missing the days of recording fuck-ups and real instrumentation..
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Idiocracy 2016
When dumb people are given a bigger microphone, they use it to spread fear, hatred, bigotry and uninformed decisions..
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Turnbull’s Trickle-Down Economics
Convincing the poor that reducing taxes on the rich will benefit them..
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The Fight For Encryption
Privacy is for people. Transparency is for the state..
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Same Sex Marriage Now
And if you don’t like it don’t worry, it won’t affect you in any way once it’s through..
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Smart Citizen, Seduced Consumer
University is big business, are we enriching our own minds or enriching the system's wallets?.
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Martin Shkreli: Wolf to Lamb
Let's use Martin Shkreli as an awakening..
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Star Wars, George Lucas and the (hopeful) re-emergence of creativity
The new Star Wars is out this Wednesday, and here's hoping it rights a few past wrongs..
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The Digital Vanity Race: A curated record of your life
Are smart phones really just making us dumber?.
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Brave New World
The Technology Industry, Innovation, and the Sharing Economy’s true face..
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Tin Foil Hat Time: Data Retention is here
What it all means for you, joe-downloading-tv-shows-citizen..
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