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Brett Solomon on Citizen Journalism and the Democratisation of News Coverage
Brett Solomon is the co-founder and Executive Director of Accessnow.org - a new global movement for digital freedom. Before that he was the Campaign Director at Avaaz.org, and before that the first Executive Director of GetUp! an Australian grass roots political organisation with over 300,000 members.
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Everything is a Remix Part 4 (by Kirby Ferguson)
“This video is not available in your country” Damn you ACTA! I didn’t know it was because ACTA! Now I do and I’m pissed!
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Five facts:
1. ACTA isn’t the “European” SOPA. It’s nearly GLOBAL, and will apply to every country that signs the treaty.
2. ACTA is far more aggressive. ACTA will not simply affect websites and have them blocked out of the internet - its measures go as far as surveillance of…
(via guerrillanetwork)
This is great. Truly.
The FBI has shutdown of the world’s largest Internet file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.
The site has claimed it is diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material. MegaUpload is one of the websites of the MPAA’s ’rogue list’.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is arguably the biggest supporter of SOPA/PIPA and has spent millions in lobbying for the bills.
MegaUpload is fighting back in court and have filed a countersuit against Universal Music Group.
(via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
So literally hours ago Megaupload.com got busted for its file sharing reputation because they have apparently cost the media industry over 500 million dollars in pirated content. Also, The Pirate Bay announced a few days ago that they aren’t going to be supporting .torrent files any longer, but rather redirect with magnet links. SOPA did not go through yet, but coincidentally, this site gets attacked. SOPA definitely was not the end of the anti-piracy initiative.
Articles can be found here:
The Pirate Bay
https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-will-stop-serving-torrents-120112/
Megaupload
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46059844#.Txh9-PmuMTD
MPAA “Rogue list” (Blacklist)
https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-lists-notorious-pirate-sites-to-u-s-government-111028/
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Howard ZinnInformative and quite entertaining to watch. Good job, guys.
The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
Years ago, government entities would torture individuals for the kind of associative information that Facebook and Twitter can now give them for free.
What we hear a lot about is the distinction between digital natives and digital immigrants. What we don’t hear a lot about is the distinction between digital renegades and digital captives, which I think is a much more important one, because we need to know exactly how technology influences civic engagement and their propensity to actually go and engage in protest. You have to go back to maslow and start thinking about how this hierarchy of needs can be applied to cyber space. It may as well be that, when you are bringing internet to China and Russia, and Iran, at the very beginning what people would want is to just go online, have fun, explore pornography, or youtube, for pictures of funny cats, and will want to communicate and chat about all this. Some will want to explore learning, and eventually some will even want to campaign. Some will go and download reports from human rights watch, but most will still be downloading pornography. Which is all just an important perspective to keep in mind. If you really want to understand the actual net impact & net effect of technology on society you have to look much broader at in fact the negative consequences as well.
(via freepressnews)
