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Woz to FCC: Save the Internet
Wozniak to the FCC on net neutrality: Imagine that when we started Apple we set things up so that we could charge purchasers of our computers by the number of bits they use. The personal computer...
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a worldwide social network that has fomented revolution in multiple countries
Who would have thought that twitter and facebook could foment a revolution? Yet Wael Ghonim says it did. He’s one of the people behind the “We are all Khaled Said” facebook page, and he spent a dozen...
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Eyes on their lobbyists’ bank accounts
The plutocrats and their bought politicians don’t care about Internet free trade, but we should. Scott Bradner almost gets it about the opposition to net neutrality in Eyes in their ankles: The...
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Parker Higgins and Peter Eckersley wrote for EFF 15 December 2011, An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress Today, a group of 83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers sent an...
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SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It —Adam Savage
Congress reconvenes in January and will take up the Internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA again. The House only deferred SOPA because of widespread public outcry. Proponents of SOPA, funded by big...
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Why SOPA and PIPA are bad
SOPA and PIPA are not dead, as Mikki Barry reminds us. She points at an excellent writeup on why we should care. Tom Evslin wrote on Fractals of Change at some unknown data, SOPA and PIPA are...
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Against SOPA and PIPA, for an open Internet
If you haven’t heard of SOPA and PIPA, you will today, as reddit, Wikipedia, Google, Craigslist, Free Software Foundation, and many other websites protest those Internet censorship bills today. The...
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NSA domestic spying: we stopped it in 1977 and we can stop it again
After seven years or more, it’s good people are finally noticing the NSA spying program: now maybe enough people will do something about it like we did in 1977. Don’t believe it’s just limited to who...
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Senators Feinstein and Chambliss shuffle their feet about FISA
Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) lamely tried to defend the Verizon call log wiretapping, which they full well know is actually part of a dragnet of all U.S. communications....
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NSA PRISM, Writs of Assistance, Rattlesnakes, and the Fourth Amendment
British Crown dragnets of information against smuggling led to the U.S. Fourth Amendment, and U.S. defense against those dragnets was the origin of the Gadsden rattlesnake flag. Those colonial Writs...
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