Tuesday, January 31, 2012

INTERNET FREEDOM: The Past, Present and Future of Internet Censorship

When oppressed people's only means of awareness of their plight is found online, the freedom of internet is not a technological, political or social problem; it is a human rights issue.

In recent years the general public has mobilized to face legislative threats to Internet freedoms.

Far from a conclusive victory, however, the death of SOPA and PIPA only highlight the latest in a series of measures that are seeking to create a legal framework for government-administered Internet censorship.

They are trying to butcher the internet because the internet is a powerful tool against being brainwashed.

The Past, Present and Future of Internet Censorship



Aaron Swartz: How We Stopped SOPA


ACTA: A global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills -- if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat -- add your voice now!

To all members of the EU Parliament: As concerned global citizens, we call on you to stand for a free and open Internet and reject the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which would destroy it. The Internet is a crucial tool for people around the world to exchange ideas and promote democracy. We urge you to show true global leadership and protect our rights.




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12 comments:

  1. Canadian Bill C-11 = SOPA = ACTA = same SHIT
    "...As the murky status of SOPA and PIPA keeps us in a fog, a Canadian digital policy expert warns us of a clandestine campaign to bring similar online piracy laws north of the border.

    The Stop Online Piracy Act was effectively shelved - for the time being - by the U.S. House of Representatives last week. What has been dubbed the "largest online protest in history" appeared to ruffle some feathers in Congress, but Michael Geist, Internet and ecommerce law professor at the University of Ottawa, has warned of a SOPA-like bill to be reintroduced before the House of Commons in the near future.

    In a recent post to his personal blog, Geist delves into Bill C-11, a copyright reform legislation that could allow our country to become "a prime target for SOPA-style rules."
    by Chase Kell
    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/bill-c11-could-bring-sopa-online-piracy-laws-212657243.html

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  2. Anonymous makes me sick. The audacity of this group to claim that they have anybody's best interests in minds, given their history of aggressively destroying lives based on personal whimsy, is as laughable a ruse as any I have ever seen. To claim that Anonymous is about anything but spreading hate, fear and misery to others is as massive a lie as anything the government feeds us.

    Picking 'causes' where the opponent is even more universally loathed than Anonymous themselves is as shallow a tactic to garner sympathy as anything their opponents have ever brought to the table.

    Anonymous is bastion for racism, pedophilia, psychopaths and things too vile to post here. Don't believe me? Spend ten minutes looking into the group's "ethics" and tell me different.

    Until Anonymous takes off their childish masks and is willing to stand up to their governments AS citizens, rather than an amorphous blob of hate and aggression that will never stop being villainized, then they cause more harm than good to any cause they claim to bolster. Until Anonymous can see that, they need to be treated with the same hostility and disgust as our governments, corporations, churches, and any other organization that seeks to oppress and control us.

    True freedom will come from you, not from 'hacktivism' and trendy flash mobs, or from dramatic speech of 'New World Orders' and similar childish rhetoric. Grow up, and maybe the world can grow up with you. Stop pushing your fantasies on us as politics, and stop trying to police a world you don't seem to understand, using terrorism and empty grandeur.

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    1. May I ask what you are doing to help stop the New World Order?

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  3. "Anonymous is an online pool of consciousness, sometimes we create a force towards a similar direction which could manifest in revolution. Anonymous has NO leader. We are one. We are many. One does not speak for many. Many do not speak for all. No one speaks for all. We come from all walks of life.

    All age, race, sex, places. We have no ideologies. We have every ideology imaginable. We have no goals. We have every goal imaginable. To understand Anonymous would be to understand our universe. Anonymous cannot be labeled, blamed or made a scapegoat. To blame Anonymous would be to blame the citizens of the world. "

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    "Trying to stop Anonymous is like trying to stop a tsunami with a surfboard, to try to hit a lightning bolt with an umbrella, to douse a fire away with petrol, or to fist fight the earth.

    The time has come for the people of the world to unite. You cannot wait for a revolution. You are the revolution. We are the revolution. Our strength is in numbers.

    The time is now. Every time you decide not to exercise your rights, every time you do not deny ignorance, every time you give your money to a corporate business you are contributing to the oppression of the human race. Anonymous is calling for your help.

    The people of the world are calling for your help. We do it because we can. We do it for the future, of our children and all life on this planet. We do it because we see lies and deceit. We do it because every digital account is fueled with the strength of human emotion, but mostly we do it for the Lulz.

    Anonymous are the people. The people are Anonymous. Now you can be Anonymous. Join us.

    We do not forget. We do not forgive. We are legion. Expect us."

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  4. Total, regurgitated bullshit. Think for yourself.

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    1. Brian. What you are saying about "Anon" seems to be a great judge of character for YOU. You seem to be the one spreading the fear and the hate. 'Nuff said.

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  5. Anonymous has no face, no race, and no origin. Anonymous is a force and as such, simply is. Anonymous is not I, you, or we. Anonymous is all without name, blame, and restraint. Anonymous cannot be hurt, damaged, or stopped. Anonymous grows at a rate that only itself can comprehend. Anonymous has no leader, no organization. Anonymous is a wandering mass of both order and chaos. Anonymous is here, Anonymous is now, Anonymous will always be. Anonymous knows NO country, NO race, No national origin!

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  6. God bless you Anonymous.. My name is Daniel and I'm a soldier of this legion.. Kill me and my spirit will born again and again.. Because the time is come.. Will not forget. We are legion.. Union makes the force.. Respect us.. Believe me. Don't forget this.. I WILL NOT FORGET. WE ARE LEGION. The new way to thinking will be LOVE.
    All the people who will not make the peace will respond in front the new order of PEACE.

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    1. My thoughts are these. I somewhat agree w/Anon, but believe there is no stopping the nature of humans. You do to the "unjust" as they do to you. We all are born in the knowledge of evil. Let's say we did accomplish world peace, how would we subdue violence? Ship them away? Kill them? Go against what we are trying to achieve? It can never be subdued, as human contritement will never be subdued. Anonymous will not be stopped, and neither will the corrupt. We can individually do our part, but there is no way to forcibly change others, they must see it. And quite frankly, we are programmed not to see it. We, humans at our nature, are ignorant.

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