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Lately there have been more and more attempts to legislate, censor and control the Internet and with that many protests to counter these measures. There are also more and new groups and political parties that advocate Internet freedoms, freedom of speech and all that stuff. Even some website tha...

Film-makers and musicians have been largely against the peer to peer file sharing networks.. . All ? No, some are even getting The Pirate Bay bump to help them promote their projects. This is known as The Promo Bay.

Today it's

It's been a few years now that some of us have been watching closely as a few distributed social networking tools have been developing. I am one of those, I don't like to have personal accounts on corporate servers and I do think that if it's not distributed it's not an Internet communica...

Since last night I noticed that The Pirate Bay's website appeared down. I checked in this morning, checked via multiple locations (from different countries) and same result. I asked a few friends to help figure this one out because this is not a DNS issue and it seemed to be more t...

Friendica is a truly decentralised social network, it has been around for a few years now already. Back in the day it was called Mistpark and already then it was more than just a proof of concept.

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Finally, France got rid of it's highness Sarkozy. It's good to see the French did not re-elect a president who's campaign was

I just read this rant on Google by Wil, it's a bit true but something itches me.

What happened is that Wil surfed the Internet while not logged into his Gaccoun...

Tomorrow, May 4th 2012, will be Day Against DRM. Take a moment to reflect on the devices you perhaps use that may infringe on your digital Freedoms.

The short version is, many digital devices and software are designed to restrict the usage you can ...

The other day a good friend of mine suggested I implement Gravatar on my website. So I started checking how it works and found it was incredibly easy. All I'd have to do use put an img element with a link to an md5 hash of the commenter's email. Like this: <img src="http://www.gravata...

You may have already heard about CISPA (or CISPA or

Many ISPs or other Internet services in these current days will often voluntarily co-operate with the authorities without requiring warrants and such. Some will be even

The UK would like to implement a new system (originally brought up by the Labour party) that would oblige Internet access providers to monitor all electronic communications. The ISPs would have to store logs of all communications, though they say the actual content of emails wouldn't be recorded ...