The Future of the Internet

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In some coffee shops you can easily get access to the Internet, what they do is just give you the password and voila. Neat right ? Anyway, these other coffee shops, chains to be precise, hire a 3rd party company to do it for them. So the other day I went in to one of them to get a coffee and an IP. This is what I noticed.. images.

Aircrack-ng blocked - Hacking Piratebay blocked - Hacking; Peer-to-Peer(P2P)

And then, just to make sure I could feel the chilling effect of being censored... They blocked reddit.com/r/ACTA !!

Reddit.com/r/acta blocked - Adult/Mature Content; Newsgroups/Forums

Actually they blocked ALL of Reddit.

Reddit.com blocked - Adult/Mature Content; Newsgroups/Forums

So there you go, the future of the Internet could be this.

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February 11 - anti ACTA Protests

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If you don't now what ACTA is, search the Internet for ACTA, that should let you find your own sources. If you do know what it's about then you are likely to be against it (unless you are part of the 1%).

On February 11 2012 you can protest against ACTA with us. Get information about your local protest here and join in.

In the meantime, you can also do a couple of things while keep your rear end glued to your chair:

I'll see you there.

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