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Online revolts: Yesterday we defeated SOPA, today we battle NSA

EU Times — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:10:52 +0000

Properly mobilized people can become a massive online force capable of blocking ‘dangerous bills’ and changing government policies, Josh Levy of the Free Press told RT. The participants of The Day We Fight Back campaign say their call to action is simple. RT: What are the protesters trying to achieve? How exactly are they supposed […]

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Reddit, Mozilla, rights groups to protest surveillance for Aaron Swartz

EU Times — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:56:09 +0000

On February 11, a broad coalition of internet-involved organizations will go online to protest massive electronic surveillance by various governments. The action hopes to repeat the successful beating of SOPA/PIPA bills in 2012. The protest was announced on the anniversary of Aaron Swartz’s suicide and is dedicated to his memory. The software engineer and online […]

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Norway readying draconian SOPA-like internet law

EU Times — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:53:02 +0000

Norway is taking steps to tackle websites like The Pirate Bay to eliminate online copyright infringement by amending the Copyright Act. The revisions are popular in parliament and if passed will grant authorities the right to block sites at the ISP level. The proposed amendments make it easier to locate both website owners and end-users […]

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CISPA, worse than SOPA, resurrected from the dead

EU Times — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:55:36 +0000

The two US lawmakers responsible for last year’s failed cybersecurity bill known as CISPA are reintroducing the act, and renewed interest from Washington means it might have a fighting chance this time at being signed into law. Less than ten months after the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act stalled on Capitol Hill after being […]

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Aaron Swartz stopped SOPA, his persecution political - Kim Dotcom

EU Times — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:48:44 +0000

Aaron Swartz became a political target, and that is what led to his tragic death, believes Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now-defunct file-storage site Megaupload, in a feature interview with RT. The web tycoon has just launched a new site Mega. “There is no reasonable cause behind going after a young genius like him […]

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SOPA opponents release Digital Bill of Rights

EU Times — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:36:00 +0000

Two leading opponents of SOPA are taking their fight for Internet freedoms to a whole new level. This time a team of bi-partisan lawmakers are offering a Digital Bill of Rights to help ensure that Americans continue to have an open Internet. “I believe that individuals possess certain fundamental rights,” Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) writes […]

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Dutch Parliament denies ACTA before EU vote

EU Times — Tue, 29 May 2012 21:42:18 +0000

Lawmakers in Holland have voted to strike down the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), slammed by many as a free speech and information access choker. Dutch MPs have also ruled the government will never sign any such agreement. The Dutch parliamentarians have opted not to wait for the EU’s vote on ACTA which is set […]

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New York wants to ban anonymous speech online

EU Times — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:52:59 +0000

Lawmakers in New York State are proposing a new legislation that involves the Web, and no, it’s not SOPA-esque or another CISPA-like spy-bill. Politicians in the Empire State want to outlaw anonymous speech on the Internet. Republican Assemblyman Jim Conte says that the legislation he co-sponsors, Bill no. S06779, would cut down on “mean-spirited and […]

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White House 'strongly opposes' CISPA, threateans to veto

EU Times — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:42:01 +0000

Congress is slated to vote this week on America’s most controversial bill in waiting — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. But now the president’s advisers say they will recommend Obama vetoes CISPA if it makes it to the White House. Following comments this week from within the Obama administration that suggested that the […]

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Netflix creates pro-SOPA super-PAC

EU Times — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:28:09 +0000

As United States lawmakers continue to consider anti-piracy legislation in Congress, they’ve found an ally in Netflix. Now the streaming content giant has created its own super PAC, whose main goal is to promote SOPA-like legislation. Hollywood and record industry support didn’t help Congress get SOPA and PIPA to pass the House and Senate, but […]

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Worse than SOPA: CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Internet

EU Times — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:25:39 +0000

An onrush of condemnation and criticism kept the SOPA and PIPA acts from passing earlier this year, but US lawmakers have already authored another authoritarian bill that could give them free reign to creep the Web in the name of cybersecurity. As congressmen in Washington consider how to handle the ongoing issue of cyberattacks, some […]

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Mozilla CEO: 30 mln not nerds, get online or get out of govt!

EU Times — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:24:37 +0000

The increasing role the internet plays in life clearly shows that being familiar with the media is a sine qua non condition for policymakers, believes Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs. The head of the top IT player was speaking on the impact of anti-piracy protests in January, which resulted in the controversial SOPA/PIPA bills being shelved. […]

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Globalists Push Internet Control Freak Treaty at the United Nations

EU Times — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:37:22 +0000

Popular outrage over SOPA, PIPA and ACTA has forced the globalists to seek a new line of attack in their effort to control the internet. On February 27, they will engage in a “diplomatic process” that will hand over to the United Nations unprecedented control over a free and open internet. The defeat of SOPA […]

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EU suspends ACTA ratification, refers treaty to court

EU Times — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:24:31 +0000

The EU has suspended the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and referred the text to the European Court of Justice to investigate possible rights breaches. The European Commission decided on Wednesday to ask the EU’s top court “to clarify that the ACTA agreement and its implementation must be fully compatible with freedom of […]

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Canada introduces online-spying bill

EU Times — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:32:49 +0000

Move over, SOPA and say your prayers, PIPA. There’s a new bill in the works that, if passed, will pull the plug on how the Internet is used in Canada. Lawmakers in the Great White North are debating a bill that will pulverize what’s left of online privacy for Canucks. The Investigative Powers for the […]

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