Internet freedom

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• Freedom of the Press IS Freedom of the Internet

  
  The Edjurist — Authority: 418
  When most people think of "freedom of the press" in the First Amendment , I think they think of a freedom that is associated with news reporters (those folks that work for newspapers, radio, TV, etc.). I dont think that is what the founders meant. The words press and media and other terms nowadays refer to specific ...
  2 days ago

• Britains new Internet law as bad as everyones been saying

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Mandlesons plans for the internet in the UK, the future of internet freedom looks grim
  3 days ago

• Hey Everybody Save the Internet – Net Neutrality

  
  Revenue Robot — Authority: 128
  I’m not much of person who gets all crazy and starts supporting everything… However when you start messing with my internet then I have to get involved and so should you! Over at savetheinternet.com it states that there are “ more than a million everyday people who have banded together with thousands of ...
  5 days ago

• In Obama Interview, Signs of China’s Heavy Hand

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Authorities appeared to carefully monitor how President Obama’s words were transmitted to China’s public, even in a newspaper known for its press-the-envelope approach.
  5 days ago

• Internet anonymity…isn’t always

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 434
  Just ask the guy who got fired from his job after a journalist/blogger called his employer to rat him out for leaving vulgar comments . Ars goes into the technical details fairly well (as one would expect), noting quite accurately just what sort of information Wordpress records about each submitted comment and the ...
  6 days ago

• Is Tweeting Now a Felony Under Federal Law?

  
  Steve Brown Etc. — Authority: 459
  Say you want a revolution. We better get on right away. Well you get on your feet And out on the street. –John Lennon, "Power to the People" The ominous rise of the surveillance state continues unabated. With each passing day, hope fades that the Obama administration will diverge from George W. ...
  1 week ago

• PBS NewsHour: In China, a Struggle for Rights, but Hope for Future

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 638
  Jim Lehrer speaks with a human rights activist and a China expert about the state of the struggle for human rights in China. From PBS NewsHour Online : JIM LEHRER: That follows, from President Obama’s talk of human rights in China, a look at what rights the ordinary citizens of China actually do have. It comes ...
  1 week ago

• Ordnance Survey maps to go free online

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  PM to open access to 2,000 data sets in victory for Guardians Free Our Data campaign The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardians three-year Free Our Data campaign. The move will bring the UK into line with the free publication ...
  1 week ago

• Is FCC Declaring ‘Open Season’ on Internet Freedom?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 813
  The FCC, in proposing to change the definition of an “open Internet” from competition-driven to government-driven is setting a very dangerous precedent; that it is acceptable for countries to preemptively regulate the Internet for what might happen in the future, even if they lack the legitimacy of ...
  1 week ago

• China’s pre-emptive response to Obama’s free flow of information comments?

  
  Status of Chinese People — Authority: 129
  Reporters Without Borders, 16 November 2009 - As US President Barack Obama used the Shanghai leg of his China visit to call for an end to online censorship, it emerged that a Chinese court has sentenced Tibetan writer and photographer Kunga Tseyang to five years in prison on various charges including posting ...
  1 week ago

• Yoani Sánchez: a few cards short of a full deck

  
  Machetera — Authority: 417
  By Machetera Britney Spears Untreated mental illness is never a lovely thing to gaze upon, so in the case of Yoani Sánchez, the self-proclaimed “blocked” Cuban blogger, it’s hard to fathom the cruelty of a U.S. State Department which in lieu of quietly suggesting psychological help for its client blogger, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hats off to Telenor and Norwegian sanity

  
  the new topyli standard — Authority: 100
  Via Torrentfreak : The IFPI (read: Hollywood) is increasingly pushing for placing the onus of prosecuting infringements of their imaginary property to internet service providers. I am happy to see Telenor refuse to do someone elses business. If I build a road, I should not be responsible for drunk drivers who might ...
  2 weeks ago

• Keep Your Dirty Hands Off Our Internet!

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 444
  BoingBoing has some details on the leaked Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in the works. If it goes through in it’s current form, it would drastically change how much of the internet worked, pretty much ending many sites, such as youtube. The Anchoress talks about how this sort of free speech issue relates to ...
  2 weeks ago

• The power of tweets

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  What have Jan Moir, AA Gill and Jimmy Carr got in common? They have all provoked storms of protest on microblogging website Twitter. But is this a new age of democracy, or a danger to free speech? One day a few weeks back, Scott Pack had an idea. Publisher at Harper Collinss The Friday Project, he was bringing out a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Survey of blocked Uyghur websites shows Xinjiang still cut off from the world

  
  Status of Chinese People — Authority: 129
  Reporters Without Borders, 29 October 2009 - Reporters Without Borders has surveyed access to websites dedicated to the Uyghur community, including sites in the Uyghur language, in Mandarin and sometimes in English. These sites, operated by Uyghurs for Uyghurs, are for the most part inaccessible both to Internet ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Will The Internet Look Like In 10 Years?

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 584
  I don’t usually get worked up about many things. I tend to believe that most things will take care of themselves, and individuals cannot do much to change things in a short time. That might seem like fatalism, but it really isn’t – it is simply realism, I believe. I have been reading so many things about the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Odds and ends for 10/27

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 437
  I’ve said many times that there’s blame enough to go around for the current economic mess. Jeremy Grantham spreads some blame around and, as if that’s not enough fun, explains why things will get worse before they get better. Why do Senate Republicans want the long-term unemployed to suffer ? Michael Lind ...
  4 weeks ago

• Video : Daily Show on John McCain’s ‘Internet Freedom Act of 2009′

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 481
  Here is McCain’s statement on the Internet Freedom Act of 2009: “Today I’m pleased to introduce the Internet Freedom Act of 2009 that will keep the Internet free from government control and regulation ,” McCain said. “ It will allow for continued innovation that will in turn create more high - paying ...
  4 weeks ago

• “Internet Freedom”: How Statists Corrupt Our Language

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 548
  WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH So declared the Party in George Orwell’s classic novel  1984 . The corruption of language with a constant theme of Orwell’s work, most notably his 1946 essay “ Politics and the English Language .” So Orwell would not have been surprised to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Where the hell did I go (summary posts!)

  
  marmel.com — Authority: 119
  I know, I know. Zero excuses really, except I’ve been trying to work the EQ knobs on both work and life, and the “blog every day” knob got pushed down a bit. (EQ board.  Hit.  I’m in my 40s.) * I wanted to write a wide ranging piece about Roman Polanski, but I ended up with a tweet/fb update where I ...
  4 weeks ago

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