Michael Vincent © 2012 While I share every thinking person’s growing concern over the net, and the intellectual freedom being threatened, it might be as well to highlight the recall motions that are flooding into state capitals and Washington, as I write these words. Thankfully, there are a large number of Americans who have answered the [...]
Big media can’t compete with the Internet so they’re seeking to destroy it. They also want to change “innocent until proven guilty” while they’re at it. A handful of massive media companies have spent millions of dollars paying off Congressional crooks to ram through a “law” that essentially breaks the Internet as we know it. [...]
[ false-flag, anyone ? ] Today the Feds raided the website MegaUpload, which led to the arrests of seven people across the globe, according to some reports. Now the Hacktivist group, Anonymous, has come forth in retaliation to the crackdown and launched an attack on several websites including The Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, [...]
[ A recent map of the internet ] Computer networks proved their organizing power during the recent uprisings in the Middle East, in which Facebook pages amplified street protests that toppled dictators. But those same networks showed their weaknesses as well, such as when the Egyptian government walled off most of its citizens from the [...]
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http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2011/08/10/explaining-netflix-to-simon-power/ Explaining Netflix to Simon Power Posted by Clare Curran on August 10th, 2011 Commerce Minister Simon Power drove through the Copyright Bill a few months ago. It gets enacted on 1 September, but as of tomorrow illegal filesharing will count towards penalties. Labour supported it in order to keep the termination clause inactive. We [...]
http://slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/2119232/Suppressed-Report-Shows-Pirates-Are-Good-Customers An anonymous reader writes “The movie and music industry think pirates are criminals and parasites who cost both industries billions of dollars in lost sales. In order to prove this fact a number of studies have been commissioned to help demonstrate the effect a pirate has on sales of entertainment. GfK Group is one [...]
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. By John Perry Barlow, co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I [...]
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