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Voat - Free Speech Plateform or Refuge for the Crazies
The decline and decline of Reddit
A while back there was a big wave of users that moved from Reddit to Voat, essentially a reddit clone that wants to promote real free speech. This was mostly in response to Reddit's growing censorship.
Reddit used to be a place that respec...
Read more.. . ..Erdoğan the Precious
The Streisand Effect strikes again, and again this is the result of censorship and repression. This time it's Erdoğan's turn.
Erdoğan has asked experts to study Tolkien's work to determine whether a comparison with Gollum ...
Read more.. . ..Is Saudi Arabia ISIS ?
Saudi Arabia vowed to sue those who compare their country to ISIS, of course the Streisand effect took place and now more wonder, what is the real difference between the two ?
A Reddit user decided to create the SaudiArabiaIsISIS.com (the w...
Read more.. . ..Snowden Statue at Forte Greene
Snowden's appearance on John Oliver's show, Last Week Tonight, has helped popularise the issues raised by the Snowden leaks.
A few years ago I was in New York around the time Greenwald had broken the news about Snowden, many of my American friends had few clues of the importanc...
Read more.. . ..Censorship Likes Centralisation
Hollande wants big websites such as Facebook, Google, etc, to police themselves. According to him, they should delete any "illicit" content their users publish, preferably without government intervention. A bit like a private extension...
Read more.. . ..Online Privacy vs Privacy
A quick word about the term "online privacy", or "Internet privacy".
I dislike when politicians and media talk about "online privacy". It's as if it's a specific notion that only applies to a virtual world detached from reality. Perhaps many discard its importance and translate it to "s...
Read more.. . ..EME Restricts Access Based on Software and Hardware
I've already ranted a few times about EME and how it's bad and all that. In this post I want to point out one specific aspect, how EME can be used to exclude users to content based on their software and/or hardware choices.
Quick brief, EME is nothing...
Read more.. . ..Why I Hate Ubuntu: Reason #4
A while back Ubuntu introduced a method of getting users' personal data by hijacking local search queries directly from the desktop search function.
It made quite a bit of noise, so to help those who insist on using ...
Read more.. . ..Is David Cameron Literally Hitler ?
Censoring Inappropriate Content
David Cameron would like to setup filters at ISPs for all home users. These filters would sieve out content that is judged as "inappropriate" by the authorities. Only the subscriber would be authorised to deactivate the filters, and to do this, he/she m...
Read more.. . ..It's not Racism They Say
Too many times lately I've read prejudice criticism about certain groups of people as a whole, like Gypsies, Muslims, Jews, etc... The critiques of these opinions often use the term "Racist". The defenders of these opinions retort that it's not racism if they're not talking about r...
Read more.. . ..DNS Hijacking via Barefruit Talktalk and Others
How malicious is your ISP ?
If they practice DNS hijacking then it's pretty damn messed up and should obviously be illegal. Yet for some reason there are ISPs that do this and have been getting away with this for years. Even stra...
Read more.. . ..Reddit Bans Domains
Seems like Reddit is now in the business of banning certain domains from their website. They have banned URL shorteners, but that is for the obvious reason that url shorteners are bad so everyone is okay with that, however blocking w...
Read more.. . ..CISPA - Another Bill Designed to Waste Our Time
You may have already heard about CISPA (or CISPA or
Read more.. . ..February 11 - anti ACTA Protests
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 a...
Read more.. . ..MegaRetrieval or Joint Complaint
EFF and Carpathia have joined forces to help Megaupload users who stored non-infringing files retrieve what they can. The only limitation is that this is only directed to users that are based in the United...
Read more.. . ..Twitter to Censor Tweets per Country
Demand Progress has started an open letter to twitter and asked its subscriber's to sign it, the letter is short and as follows:
Twitter's importance as an open platform has been demonstrated time and again this year. We need you to keep figh... Read more.. . ..Megaupload Takedown Inspires Self Censorship
How can the USA authorities take down a Hong-Kong based company and arrest people in New-Zealand ? Ars Technica explains, it turns out that the...
Read more.. . ..Global Censorship Checkpoints
I just heard about Global Censorship Checkpoints, it's aim is to document various projects around the world that want to police the Internet. On this site you can see, which polices are implemented or under study in each country, there are also links t...
Read more.. . ..Megaupload Down - MPAA and RIAA Down as well
MegaUpload.com was just shut down and executives arrested, data centres violated, etc etc. The FBI it seems has the right to arrest people all over the world (New Zealand, Germany, Canada, etc etc).
At the same time the MPAA, RIAA and Department Of "Justice" websites are al...
Read more.. . ..MPAA Thinks Blackout is Abuse of Power !
Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) speaks about the anti SOPA/PIPA blackout, noticeably about Wikipedia.
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Internet Strike
Parts of the Internet will be on strike tomorrow as you may have noticed on this site. Join us while it is still legal.
A few good links:
Read more.. . ..It's All Crap
A friend pointed out this article on how Richard Stallman was right all along and of course, I agree and actually was not part of those who think/thought that RMS is too paranoid/crazy. I don't have a mobile phon...
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