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Re:UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agen... by andy_ppp on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:07AM (#26167091)
The current UK government has a blacklist of left wing journalists who they won’t respond to freedom of information act requests and they are fighting a culture war about bullshit while Dominic Cummings has the gall to claim his friends happen to be the only marketing company in the UK who are trustworthy!
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Re:UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agen... by andy_ppp on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:50PM (#26169973)
References:

Jornalists FOI clearing house: https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/01/an-important-victory-in-t...

Culture war: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universities-...

Dominic Cummings claims:

Cummings described Frayne and Wolf as his “friends”, but added: “Obviously I did not request Public First be brought in because they were my friends. I would never do such a thing.” He said he “requested” civil servants hire the firm because, in his experience, it was the only company with the expertise to carry out the required focus groups urgently.

From: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/15/revealed-cummi...

Not sure why I've been down voted?

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Re:UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agen... by dohnuts1919 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:38AM (#26168315)
> The current UK government has a blacklist of left wing journalists who they won’t respond to freedom of information act requests

Source?

Also, isn't it illegal to not respond to valid FOI requests? Otherwise wouldn't that defy the whole point of FOI?

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Re:UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agen... by andy_ppp on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:47PM (#26169936)
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/01/an-important-victory-in-t...
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