Tag: sopa
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Obama Nominates Former SOPA Lobbyist to Help Lead TPP Negotiations
By Maira Sutton / from EFF.org: President Obama has nominated former SOPA lobbyist Robert Holleyman to join the team of U.S. negotiators leading the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks. If confirmed by the Senate, the former chief executive officer of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) would serve as a Deputy to the U.S. Trade Representative. Coincidentally,…
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RSS Creator, Reddit Co-Founder Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide
from tech.mit.edu: Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment to The Tech. Swartz was 26. “The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is, regrettably, true,” confirmed Swartz’ attorney, Elliot R. Peters of Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to…
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Innovation, Optimism And Opportunity: All Coming Together To Make Real Change
from Techdirt.com: from the keep-it-going dept. Over the past few years, we’ve had a bit of a “New Year’s” tradition around here for my last “regular” post of the year. It started in 2008, in response to an email asking how I didn’t go crazy with anger over all of the bad stuff we wrote…
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New Zealand Judge Rules Kim DotCom Warrants Invalid
High Court judge finds search warrants were too general and rules the data in cloned drives should not have been released to the FBI.
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Is Anonymous Controlled Opposition?
A rumor storms cyberspace hacker group Anonymous threatens to crash internet! Nibletz.com covers story with suggested target date of March 31st.
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SOPA Is Back As Websites Go Black
A mere 4 days after announcing he was dropping the DNS blocking provisions of the bill and putting it on the shelf until a ‘consensus’ was reached, Representative Lamar Smith has brought SOPA back out to play, and just in time for the January 18th SOPA blackouts.
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12/29 #defcon: ç¥∫´®ßπåç´∑å® – 404 file or directory not found
#2012 watch: the countdown begins* how the world might end in 2012 (or maybe later)* top 10 most bizarre tech stories of 2011* ten plotlines you’ll find in science fiction – over & over again* twin probes to orbit moon, study gravity field* sen. ron wyden leaps into middle of internet piracy fight* army ‘red…
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#sopa: how to stop the ‘stop online piracy act’
from brasschecktv.com: If passed, the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, will ban the very architecture of the Internet and turn the Internet into basically another form of television. The Internet is interactive. It is infinitely searchable with links that connect the free flow of information and ideas to a system that can be navigated.…
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12/1 defcon: sopa, carrier iq & you
comedy of errors led to false ‘water-pump hack’ report* flashback: feds deny water utility hack* hackers target united nations development program website* crack this code & become a british spy* sopa on the ropes? bipartisan alternative to ‘net censorship emerges* critics line up to bash maker of secret phone-monitoring software* does your smartphone run carrier…