Internet
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Official: US govt already seized hundreds of foreign domains
US seizure of a Canadian gambling website caused online outcry as it was registered abroad and thought to be outside American jurisdiction. But this is far from isolated; it has emerged that the US has seized hundreds of foreign domain names. Continue reading
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ACTA in UK: 10 years in jail for ‘illegal downloads’
UK web surfers have caught a grim glimpse of the future with Internet users being threatened with 10 years in jail for “illegal downloading” after a prominent music file-sharing site was shut down shortly after Britain signed the notorious ACTA bill. Continue reading
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ACTA – time to win!
Governments are turning their back on ACTA one by one, so the EC is asking their Court of Justice to give the treaty the green light and renew its momentum — but they plan to manipulate the process by giving the court only a narrow, uncontroversial question to consider, hoping it will lead to a… Continue reading
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Hypocrisy in Hollywood: Why Hollywood backed PIPA and SOPA
This infographic highlights Hollywood’s support for SOPA and PIPA. Continue reading
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Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring Controversial Content By Washington’s Blog
Facebook pays low-wage foreign workers to delete certain content based upon a censorship list. For example, Facebook deletes accounts created by Palestinian resistance groups. Continue reading
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Julie Lévesque: SOCIAL MEDIA “TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION” – Spying and Propaganda using Facebook, Twitter
A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. What the study fails to mention, however, is the use of social media by intelligence agencies for other purposes. Continue reading
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SOPA author strikes back with Internet surveillance bill; no one is safe By Sebastian Haley
SOPA author Lamar Smith is sponsoring a new bill named the ‘Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011″ (H.R. 1981). The bill is not brand new, mind you, but with so many other oppressive attempts by the government to invade privacy and control the Internet lately, it has managed to slip by relatively unnoticed… Continue reading
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Netizen Journalism, Libya and the UN By Ronda Hauben
In this issue is a collection of articles documenting what happened in Libya in 2011. These articles serve to argue that starting in February 2011 there was a media blitz supporting the NATO actions, largely based on unverifiable claims by the opposition against the government of Libya. The story that emerged is based on broadly… Continue reading
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If you’re a Firefox user this plugin is a necessity
10 February 2012 If you’re Firefox user, this plugin is an absolute necessity! Called ‘Do Not Track’ it monitors what’s tracking your movements across the Web and blocks them. Click on the the little green icon on the toolbar and up pops a window detailing what’s tracking you. Simple! Do Not Track Continue reading
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Anonymous calls for anti-ACTA rallies, Poland suspends bill — RT
A wolf in sheep’s clothing – that’s how ACTA opponents have described the international copyright treaty. Thousands are to protest in Sweden on Saturday while in Poland the legislation has been suspended after attacks on government websites. Continue reading
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What is ACTA? – Max Keiser
Although the proposed treaty’s title might suggest that the agreement deals only with counterfeit physical goods (such as medicines) what little information has been made available publicly by negotiating governments about the content of the treaty makes it clear that it will have a far broader scope and in particular will deal with new tools… Continue reading
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Meet ACTA- PIPA and SOPA’s Big Brother
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an international treaty that threatens free speech and your privacy online. Imagine if your ISP could censor their networks, police what you did online, and with greater ease turn your information over to authorities. That’s the danger that ACTA poses, and it’s got to be stopped. Continue reading
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SOPA, PIPA and now ACTA Newslinks 19-24 January 2011
25 January 2012 — williambowles.info 012 As cyberspace turns its attention to the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been quietly signed or ratified by most of the developed world and is arguably the biggest threat to Internet freedom yet Max Keiser and Stacy HerbertYesterday at 17:57 Continue reading
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An ACTA of war: secret censor tool to shake up world wide web
As cyberspace turns its attention to the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been quietly signed or ratified by most of the developed world and is arguably the biggest threat to Internet freedom yet. Continue reading
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SOPA: Anti-Piracy or Censorship? Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales vs. Copyright Alliance’s Sandra Aistars
Congressional support for a pair of anti-piracy bills is weakening after Wednesday’s historic online protest in which thousands of websites went dark for 24 hours. Continue reading
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BREAKING: Copyright Lawyers Oppose SOPA … And Say It Won’t Even Work By Washington’s Blog
Many experts have said that the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are not only draconian, but that they fail to address the root problem. Continue reading
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SAY NO TO SOPA AND PIPA. What’s Happening With the Web Censorship Bills? By Washington’s Blog
In the face of massive Internet protest today, key senate and house backers of the SOPA and PIPA web censorship bills – including Senators Marco Rubio, Roy Blunt, John Cornyn, Orrin Hatch, John Boozman and Jim DeMint, and Representatives Ben Quayle and Lee Terry – have dropped their support. So have a number of other… Continue reading
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NYT, SOPA and Internet Factchecking
Remember last week’s uproar about the New York Times and factchecking? In today’s paper, we see a great example of how this works. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 