North West ‘State Of The Province’ Address Sees Punches Thrown [Video]
Apparently, any political address that contains the words ‘state of the’ is deemed to end in farcical, often violent scenes.
Controversial, Privacy-Destroying CISPA Bill Passed In House Of Representatives
CISPA – the ugly cousin of other internet-crippling bills SOPA and PIPA, whether Facebook admits it or not – passed late last week in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives. Worse, the bill was amended before it passed to allow even more types of private information to be tapped and shared by government agencies in the US.
Google Co-Founder Says Facebook & Apple Threaten Internet Freedom
Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder everybody keeps forgetting about except when he talks about stuff like this, has pointed to a handful of “threats to internet freedom” – Facebook, Apple, the entertainment industry, and governments that censor their citizens. By which I guess he means threats to Google.
Meet CISPA, The Latest Bill To Try And Destroy The Internet
A new bill is making its way through congress – CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is pretty much SOPA in different shoes. It’s another attempt to give copyright enforces carte blanche to spy on internet users and censor online content without just cause. Which is sort of bad.
Pirate Bay Founders Will Be Going To Jail – Final Appeal Rejected
It’s been a long road for Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, the three founders behind the popular file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay. They were sentenced to time in prison in 2009, and although the sentences have been reduced, their final appeal has been lost. This means they are most certainly going to jail on charges of copyright infringement.
Twitter BlackOut Protest Results In Mass Tweeting
Man, look, I know the successive restriction of online liberties is something we should be fighting tooth and nail, but I can’t be the only one who heard about last Saturday’s ‘Twitter Blackout,’ in protest of Twitter’s new censorship policy, and failed to care.
Google Blacked Out For SOPA Too
Google has joined Wikipedia, BoingBoing and a number of other popular websites in the SOPA protest – not just by ‘blacking out’ their logo, which is cute but largely ineffective, but by putting together a comprehensive and informative infographic on the SOPA bill and piracy, along with access lines for voters to contact members of Congress through.