Fear and War

thenoobyorker:

newsweek:

Tweets from kids trying to use Wikipedia for their homework—and failing. SOPA!
[h/t gangster curator Katie Notopoulos]

Stop Censorship: If you’re not trolling or capturing moments akin to this on Twitter, you’re doing the Internet wrong.

newsweek:

Tweets from kids trying to use Wikipedia for their homework—and failing. SOPA!

[h/t gangster curator Katie Notopoulos]

Stop Censorship: If you’re not trolling or capturing moments akin to this on Twitter, you’re doing the Internet wrong.

Tim Tebow has 20x the coverage of SOPA. The Royals (WHO DON’T EVEN RULE HERE) have 23x the amount of coverage as SOPA. I wonder why.

anticapitalist:

The loosely organized hacker group known as Anonymous has Sony in its sights once again. After releasing a video a few days ago wherein they threaten to destroy Sony’s network, the group, which has been organizing in the IRC channel #OpSony, has clarified the meaning of their declaration. Unlike the infamous PlayStation Network hack of 2011, the target of this attack is not Sony’s customers or even the Playstation Network itself, but Sony’s executives.

As a direct response to Sony’s alignment with recent SOPA legislation, Anonymous intends to “dox” (find and expose personal information) about the company’s executives. The group has already begun to publicize some private information (including credit card numbers) and plans to continue releasing more and more information in as public a way as possible in the near future.

In addition to doxing, Anonymous has announced plans to attack and deface Sony’s websites with Internet memes altered to have an anti-SOPA message. The possibility of posting links to Sony’s copyrighted material, right on their own websites, has also been suggested.

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"So let’s review Secretary Clinton’s list of grave threats to Internet freedom and see how it applies to her actions and those of the Obama administration. “Those around the world whose words are now censored … who are blocked from accessing entire categories of internet content” – check. Attempting to undermine the Internet’s ability to “enliven public debates, quench a thirst for knowledge” – check. “Ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled, and people constrained in their choices” – check. “Companies turning over sensitive information about political dissidents” and “a company shutting down the social networking accounts of activists in the midst of a political debate” — check. ”Those who push these plans often do so in the name of security” – big check.
Internet freedom — preventing government and corporate control of the Internet — is indeed one of the most vital political fights of this generation, perhaps the most vital. There are many people in a position credibly to lead and support that fight. Hillary Clinton and the government in which she serves is most definitely not among them; more often than not, they are among the enemies of those freedoms."

— Glenn Greenwald, Hillary Clinton and Internet Freedom

Track the progress of SOPA!

anticapitalist:

accll:

Follow this link to track the progress of SOPA. As you can see, this still has a way to go before it is officially made into a law.

It has also NOT been rejected. Do not listen to idiots on Tumblr. Please spread this link around, I beg of you all.

Do not listen to idiots on Tumblr.

- this is great general advice.

Schoolhouse Rock time.

(Source: accelll)

kateoplis:

Politico: Why SOPA is on the Congressional agenda

Hollywood’s in a showdown over its TV shows, movies and music with an up-and-coming opponent in the Washington arena: the Silicon Valley gang.

And that can only mean a huge payday for lobbyists.

According to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, the film, music and TV industries have spent more than $91 million on lobbying so far this year — an amount that puts them on pace to beat all of their previous spending records.

Tell Them No