https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/rogers-cybersecurity-bill-broad-enough-use-against-wikileaks-and-pirate-bay (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/rogers-cybersecurity-bill-broad-enough-use-against-wikileaks-and-pirate-bay)
They might as well call it the Democratic People's Republic of America at this point.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120426/14505718671/insanity-cispa-just-got-way-worse-then-passed.shtml (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120426/14505718671/insanity-cispa-just-got-way-worse-then-passed.shtml)
WHAT
THE
FUCK
Edit: Handy list of people who voted in favor of the bill. My rep is on there. "Keep your districts' thoughts in mind" my pale fucking ass. Thanks for nothing. Cunt. (http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll192.xml)
Wait, that shit passed?
What the FUCK?!
Like you weren't aware of how the entities behind this kind of shit would do everything do rush this shit, they always do, and always get away with that.
And people thought why I still insist in thinking that Hope is our worst enemy these days. You would otherwise never know when things would get worse all of sudden.
[spoiler]And I'll carry on with that kind of thinking, I mean.... well, I did hear about Obama supposedly threatening CISPA, but then again, remember when Obama actually signed the NDAA 2012? (http://www.unelected.org/goodbye-bill-of-rights-obama-signs-ndaa) So, yeah....[/spoiler]
A law passed under people's noses in Japan is about to make video sites (youtube, niconico, etc.) and very likely mugen as well illegal in Japan this October. (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118016-Japan-May-Make-YouTube-Illegal)
God damn it. This could also make doujinshi illegal, couldn't it?
Well, I'm not sure if the thing in question is related/attached to the law that just got passed, but I did hear about the lawmaker's intents to give manga publishers equal ownership rights alongside the author, allowing them to go after fanworks even if the author gives approval. (http://astronerdboy.blogspot.de/2012/03/new-proposed-japanese-law-reason-ken.html)
In other words, they're gonna be the equivalent of the RIAA, only for manga.
Aaand, ACTA's back. (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120709/07420719630/)
This isn't legislation, this is outright dictatorship.
And now my goverment wants to regulate digital public donations/fundings, very likely making stuff like Kickstarting illegal/heavily crippled in my country. (http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwolnemedia.net%2Fkomunikaty%2Fzderegulowac-zbiorki-publiczne%2F&act=url) Not like I'd ever want to start a business in my country but now there's even less reason to....
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants)
The people behind this should be taken behind an alley and shot. I am about to vomit.
Or just manage to get a reform of law enforcement and copyright passed without their interference. That'll be torture enough for them. AH HAHAHA FAGGOT
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552687-38/leahy-scuttles-his-warrantless-e-mail-surveillance-bill/ (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552687-38/leahy-scuttles-his-warrantless-e-mail-surveillance-bill/)
Today I've heard about this "INDECT (http://translate.google.pl/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=pl&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwiadomosci.onet.pl%2Ftylko-w-onecie%2Frewolucja-z-polski-alarm-w-internecie%2C1%2C5391198%2Cwiadomosc.html)" thing, so I looked it up, and........ (http://www.stopp-indect.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=4&lang=en)
Fuck, this is some Minority Report shit right here.
Mostly developed and tested in Poland to boot, as if that hellhole of a country wouldn't make me any more embarrased of living in it it's honestly on par with India now.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/23/google-microsoft-and-netflix-want-drm-like-encryption-in-html5/ (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/23/google-microsoft-and-netflix-want-drm-like-encryption-in-html5/)
(http://static.tumblr.com/t5ojs4q/4p4m85g6a/tumblr_lnlybluooh1qm9odpo1_400.jpg)
That is ridiculous. Won't that be a pain in the ass for browsers to implement, as well? Come on, who the fuck's gonna let that happen?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130206/18165321900/cispa-sponsor-rep-dutch-ruppersberger-promises-return-cispa.shtml (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130206/18165321900/cispa-sponsor-rep-dutch-ruppersberger-promises-return-cispa.shtml)
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130207/08080221909/us-europe-move-to-tafta-yet-another-chance-to-push-through-actasopa-style-ip-maximalism.shtml (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130207/08080221909/us-europe-move-to-tafta-yet-another-chance-to-push-through-actasopa-style-ip-maximalism.shtml)
And the war against the Internet continues.
Gotta "love" the double standards (and few other things) of certain companies and their certain agendas when it's pretty much revealed recently that the MEPs who are said interests' bitches pretty much copy and paste their proposals into the proposed amendments into the proposed privacy reform. (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/12/0238228/eu-data-protection-proposal-taken-word-for-word-from-us-lobbyists) A reform which - surprise surprise - would only serve it's actual authors. Authors who aren't even residing in Europe.
This time, it's not about copyright law or any piece of text that at worst would harm our liberties.
No, some genuine apocalypse is heading in our way as the DPRK are ready to start a nuclear war. (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/north-korea-approves-nuclear-strike-on-us/article10735512/)
It was nice knowing you, Americans.
Wait, what?
lmao I'd like to see them try
^
They are seriously outgunned. But these threats seems to be real. Why they would try this is beyond me though.
Hell, this damn island has more firepower than North Korea has in its entire country (I know some retired military dudes who used to maintain the island warheads, and my understanding is that this island alone could destroy North Korea if provoked).
More importantly, China and Japan rely heavily upon us for trade.
I'll say that again: China relies heavily upon us for trade.
That's their bread and butter they'd be fucking with. With China's army, any war would be over in a matter of weeks, if not days.
Either their new leader is insane and actually thinks he has a chance or he deliberately wants to be conquered for the US to pay the resulting reconstruction.
Like the novel The Mouse That Roared only more retarded.
Almost 2 months later and they haven't done shit. lel.
Also, what the fuck. (http://boingboing.net/2013/05/26/us-entertainment-industry-to-c.html) These people would be better if they had a bullet in the head.
Yeah, the best way to stop something perceived as illegal is to do illegal shit. :what:
QuoteIn 2011, the MPAA told Congress that they wanted SOPA and knew it would work because it was the same tactic used by governments in "China, Iran, the UAE, Armenia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Burma, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam."
... Do they even
realize what they just said?!
Since else nobody bothered to post it I give you PRISM (http://gizmodo.com/what-is-prism-511875267).
I really have no words. I'm so against this, but for some reason, probably because my life circumstances are the best they ever have been, I'm just entirely apathetic.
Speaking of PRISM, the author of the PATRIOT ACT (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130610/01385123392/author-patriot-act-says-nsa-surveillance-is-abuse-must-end.shtml) has come out against it.
Fuck PRISM, we just lost our 5th Amendment rights. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/17/read-the-supreme-court-rules-prosecutors-can-use-a-suspects-silence-as-evidence-of-guilt/)
http://www.examiner.com/article/jimmy-wales-breaks-wikipedia-rules-hunt-for-snowden (http://www.examiner.com/article/jimmy-wales-breaks-wikipedia-rules-hunt-for-snowden)
Just wow. :what:
What the fuck? What's it to him if he edited Wikipedia?
Yeah, it's been a while since the last time anyone of us posted on that thread.
But in the light of the recent Russia-Ukraine crisis, especially with the Russian Navy nearing close to the Polish borders, I'll just say, a second Cold War (or even worse) may be upon us.
RIP Net Neutrality (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/technology/fcc-new-net-neutrality-rules.html?_r=1)
Oh FUCK THAT NOISE.
Just when we're getting Google Fiber, they want to THROTTLE it?