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New ‘Fault Lines’ documentary surveys the forces trying to control the Internet

:: Wednesday, August 08, 2012
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Al Jazeera’s documentary series Fault Lines takes a look at the corporate-state attempts to regulate the web.

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‘Privacy is Awesome’ campaign hopes to derail cybersecurity bill CISPA

:: Friday, May 25, 2012
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CISPA is likely headed for a Senate vote in early June. Help stop it.

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ITR: The next battleground in internet regulation

:: Friday, May 18, 2012
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This December, the latest round of ITR revisions are up for debate in Dubai.

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Secret negotiations to regulate the internet begin today in Dallas with TPP

:: Wednesday, May 09, 2012
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TPP will do what SOPA and PIPA could not.

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Smart phones as mobile National IDs? Reality, not science fiction

:: Friday, April 13, 2012
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Could such a law come to America?

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Hate SOPA and ACTA? Then you’ll love TPP

:: Thursday, April 12, 2012
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This executive agreement is being negotiated in secret without the input of Internet users or experts.

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Anonymous launches Netflix boycott over its support of SOPA

:: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Netflix Awards $1 Million Netflix Prize & Announce 2nd $1 Million Challenge

Netflix, not surprisingly, joins its sugar daddies in supporting SOPA.

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Reddit users’ PAC starts exacting revenge on SOPA creator Lamar Smith

:: Thursday, April 05, 2012
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Reddit users don’t forget.

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The Pirate Bay plans to put its servers in drone planes to dodge law enforcement

:: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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The Pirate Bay may take its servers to the sky as they get ready to “host the galaxy.”

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Anonymous’ Declaration of Independence and the question of Internet sovereignty

:: Monday, March 05, 2012
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Anonymous holds some truths to be self-evident.

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The Internet Blueprint: Public Knowledge’s SOPA and PIPA alternative

:: Thursday, March 01, 2012
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Help shape an alternative to SOPA and PIPA.

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MPAA still blocking consumers from ripping the DVDs they own

:: Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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The MPAA wants you to pay again and again for movies you already own.

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An Open Letter to Hollywood: stop blaming piracy and make films worthy of cinematic experience

:: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Hollywood blames its failures on online piracy, when the reality is that a good majority of the industry has no interest in making good films.

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Cabinet of Subversive Books: Neal Stephenson’s ‘Cryptonomicon’ & the dream of a data haven

:: Wednesday, February 01, 2012
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In Volume 7, we look at Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon,” which considered the idea of total freedom of information, more relevant now than ever with SOPA, PIPA, H.R. 1981 and ACTA resistance.

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Demand end to ACTA and House bill H.R. 1981 on International Data Privacy Day

:: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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This Saturday, January 28th, is International Privacy Day, a perfect moment to mount a campaign against Rep. Lamar Smith’s H.R. 1981.

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Stop ACTA: why the global big brother of internet censorship must be crushed

:: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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The anti-SOPA and PIPA effort is just the opening salvo in a much larger censorship effort embodied by ACTA.

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Read The Pirate Bay press release on SOPA

:: Thursday, January 19, 2012
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Here’s what The Pirate Bay had to say about the entertainment industry’s efforts to impose its will on the country with SOPA and PIPA.

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Rupert Murdoch’s use of irony in accusing blogs of spreading terror over SOPA (like Fox News)

:: Thursday, January 19, 2012
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What of the pro-SOPA/PIPA crowd’s terrorizing of legislators over the threat of online piracy?

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Watch: SOPA/PIPA protest song, ‘The Day the LOLCats Died’

:: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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“Our web means more than lawyers, lobbies and lies/So speak up before the internet dies.”

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Web wrap: must-reads from the internets

:: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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Here’s a look at what you might have missed today.

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