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The goal of CISPA is to completely eliminate any sort of privacy online. It really is a Big Brother bill, and that isn’t hyperbole.
CISPA is orders of magnitude worse than SOPA/PIPA. We need to mobilize like we did before, and stop this.
Agreed. And from what I’ve read, not too many people know about this.
Next step: control over the internet This graphic sums up CISPA pretty well.
Variation 11 If you see this at the District Court, ignore it. Whomever put it up is wrong. The hearing’s on the fifth floor. Rule one: ignore signs in Arial.
ACTA You should be able to keep your eye on both balls. Some of us have. (Via fuckyeahdementia.)
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SOPA is just the next round in the War On. Like drugs and terror, piracy is the excuse. Expansion of the police state remains the real goal.
Now, American lawmakers want to take things one step further on their own turf. They are putting the entertainment lobby ahead of their own voters, by seeking to pass legislation that puts the US on the same playing-field as Iran, China and North Korea.
What will the internet be like after SOPA? Imagine a library filled with nothing but fliers, catalogues, and calling cards. That will be the internet in a nutshell. If content holders go crazy with copyright complaints, the only websites left will be sites belonging to companies with teams of lawyers, or advertising sites, or personal or organizational sites made by people who know how to build non-copyright infringing sites, none of which will have comment sections. In other words, it will be boring.
Ariane Barnes: ‘SOPA will be the death of the internet’
UK: you are a terrorist if you pirate stuff Britain is more f***ed up than I thought. Almost as bad as a New Zealand politician thinking that the internet is Skynet. We can, of course, trace all of it back to US entertainment industry lobbyists.
Posted with permission from Josué Pereira
Copyright at the 5,000 What would Jesus think about file-sharing?
Judge decimates BitTorrent lawsuit with common sense ruling | TorrentFreak
One of the few people in position who can see past the BS. I haven’t looked into the court yet and how persuasive a precedent this is. What I do know is that the pre-August 2011 copyright régime worked here, and works in the US, and the new one will be weakened, if ever so slightly, by common-sense judgements such as this.
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jtotheizzoe:
James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested [on Saturday] as part of the ongoing protests against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
That’s what I call putting your money where your scientific mouth is.
(via Discovery News)
God speed. Leave it to this country to either shut the scientists up or put them in jail in favor of company. I’m surprised not as much people are raging over this.
First Amendment I still have yet to read anything saying that these were not peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights, so why are they being arrested?
So much for Sec. Chu being the scientists’ ally.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqr4vqmOre1qbh26io1_500.jpg)
cwnl:
James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested [on Saturday] as part of the ongoing protests against the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
That’s what I call putting your money where your scientific mouth is.
(via Discovery News)
God speed. Leave it to this country to either shut the scientists up or put them in jail in favor of company. I’m surprised not as much people are raging over this.
First Amendment I still have yet to read anything saying that these were not peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights, so why are they being arrested?
So much for Sec. Chu being the scientists’ ally.
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