December 2011
16 posts
“Under SOPA, websites can be blacklisted and removed from the Internet if they...”
– Alicia Eler, ReadWriteWeb. How SOPA Would Kill Art & Creativity Online.
In related news:
Technology Review argues that antipiracy legislation such as SOPA and PIPA will weaken Internet security.
Ars Technica writes that conservatives are beginning to line up against SOPA.
GoDaddy is still...
The FJP: Censorship, Surveillance and Hackers →
futurejournalismproject:
A great article in Forbes on Telecomix, a group of hackers that have aimed their sites, and hacking chops, on free-speech starved countries. The group has also exposed western (mostly American) technology firms whose products have (knowingly or unknowingly, depending on who you…
Go-Daddy supports SOPA. Move your domain names, if... →
“A strange thing happened Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill. As Rep. Stenny Hoyer...”
– Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story (via wreckandsalvage
)
“Let us teach ourselves and others that politics should be an expression of a...”
– Vaclav Havel (via azspot)
Coders Are Already Finding Ways Around SOPA... →
onaissues:
“A developer who calls himself T Rizk doesn’t have much faith in Congress making the right decision on anti-piracy legislation, so he’s built a work around for the impending censorship measures being considered: DeSOPA. The Firefox add-on is stunningly simple as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would block specific domain names (e.g. www.thepiratebay.com) of allegedly infringing...
“With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60...”
– Al Franken (via azspot)
Things that weren't around when the U.S.-led war...
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“With the passing of the act almost certain at this point, hackers aligned to the...”
– From RT.com
Anonymous attacking creators of indefinite detention bill
