Americans are expressing outrage at the revelation that from April to July of this year, the White House used Section 215 of the Patriot Act to obtain a secret court order for all phone records (records that show originating and terminating phone numbers, their location, time and duration but not “substantive content of any communication”)…
Category: Society and Civilization
FBI seizes anonymous mailer server putting 100s of legit users offline
On Wednesday, April 18, at approximately 16:00 Eastern Time, U.S. Federal authorities removed a server from a colocation facility shared by Riseup Networks and May First/People Link in New York City. The seized server was operated by the European Counter Network (“ECNâ€), the oldest independent internet service provider in Europe, who, among many other things,…
ACTA – the top-secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
ACTA, short for Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a treaty for the purpose of defining the standards for the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Its intent is to establish a legal framework within which all countries can operate to enforce intellectual property rights.
Copyright trolls don’t want you to know what fair use of a copyrighted work is.
The fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Occupy Wall Street – This is how Revolutions begin.
The OccupyWallStreet movement, spearheaded by OccupyTogether is gaining momentum. Youth are taking to the streets in droves, rejecting the current economic order rooted in corporate and political greed, and are seeking to redefine the future of the United States
Rape of women in DR Congo ‘tops 1000 a day’
More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), making sexual violence against women 26 times more common than previously thought, a study has concluded.
Supreme Court charges $45K to cheerleader who refused to cheer her rapist.
The Supreme Court refused to review the case of a high school cheerleader who was kicked off the squad for refusing to cheer for the basketball player she said had raped her. And as a lovely parting gift, the girl’s family must now repay the school $45,000 in legal fees for what a lower court…
Did Osama bin Laden Win the War Against the United States?
According to counterterrorism expert Gartenstein-Ross, Osama bin Laden had a strategy that we never bothered to understand, and thus that we never bothered to defend against. What he really wanted to do and, more to the point, what he thought he could do was bankrupt the United States of America.
Amnesty International warns about new Net Neutrality Law – Save the Internet from Corporate Censorship
We all know how important the Internet is for sharing news, information, and strategy about human rights abuses around the world. From satellite images of Darfur to reports documenting Shell Oil’s involvement in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta, from correspondence among country specialists to online urgent actions in support of Aung Sun Suu…
U.S. Censures Federal Workers, tells Employees that Reading Wikileaks is Breaking the Law
In the view of the US government, many of the WikiLeaks documents are still classified, and even though the documents have been published for all the world to see, reading the classified documents without clearance is illegal. Some US government warnings issued to several governmental groups have suggested that a federal employee would be breaking…
