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occupyallstreets:

SOPA/Killswitch Bill Sneaks Back Into Congress And Are Stronger Than Ever - Get Ready For Round 2!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill.

The expected bill is the latest attempt by the Democrats to broadly expand the authority of executive branch agencies over the Internet.

The details of the bill still remain in secrecy but clues available to the public suggest that the bill might be stronger than President Barack Obama’s ‘Killswitch emergency cybersecurity’ proposal, which was released in May 2011.

The Killswitch bill allows the president to ‘declare a cyber emergency’ and shut down the internet.

Reid said that he would bring the bill — expected to come out of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, chaired by Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman — to the floor during the first Senate work period of 2012.

Just to be clear:

• This bill is worse than SOPA, it will censor the internet and allow the President to shut it down much like what happened to Egypt during the Arab Spring
• The Obama Administration not only supports the likes of the bill, but proposed it
• The Government will have full control over the internet
• The Government will have FULL CONTROL over the internet
• Private-sectors, the state and the government will be granted immunity
• The Government will have full control over the internet
• Websites thought to be ‘infringing’ copyright laws will be seized by the government
• Internet entrepreneurship will be endangered
• YouTube will disappear (oh no!)

If you haven’t lost your faith in the Obama Administration, take a look at this. Obama plans to create a law that would mandate every American to have an ‘internet id’. 

SOPA is not dead and neither is the Killswitch bill. As soon as I have any new information I will update this post.

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While lawmakers dream of a censored web, you can download tribler for file sharing. Tribler is the next generation in p2p and it is IMMUNE to censorship.

We Are Pirates United

P.S. Don’t be a dick, remember to seed.

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occupyallstreets:

MegaUpload Users Plan to Sue the FBI over Lost Files

In most reports following the MegaUpload shutdown, the site is exclusively portrayed as a piracy haven.

However, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections.

As of today, these people are still unsure whether they will ever get their personal belongings back.

In a response, Pirate Parties worldwide have started to make a list of all the people affected by the raids, and they are planning to file an official complaint against the US authorities.

“The widespread damage caused by the sudden closure of Megaupload is unjustified and completely disproportionate to the aim intended,” they announce.

MegaUpload users who want to join in on the action can do so here.

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sexlock:

STOP ACTA! SPREAD THE WORD!

Main Page -> http://www.facebook.com/events/170835693019760/

This is a London based protest to help raise awareness of this dangerous agreement. The public must know about it! Please tell as many people as possible!

INFORMATION AND LOCATION

Meet at Piccadilly Circus Tube Station (Trocadero exit) at 13:00 on the 18th February 2012. 

We shall proceed up to Piccadilly Circus and station at the centre part.


WHAT TO BRING:

SHOULD
+Billboards, signs, flyers (which will be supplied), FRIENDS!

COULD
+Nice stuff to appear less menacing and more awesome (e.g free sweets lolol, flowers, cute stuff), portable stereo for AMAZINGNESS.


DRESS CODE:

SHOULD
+V for Vendetta mask for the lulz
+Bright/outrageous super awesome clothes that would make people stare
+PASSION AND RAGE!

COULD
+SUITS
+Umbrella or raincoat for possible crap weather
+Warm coats just in case!

EVENT DETAILS -  http://www.facebook.com/events/170835693019760/ 
TWITTER - OpACTA
FACEBOOK GROUP - http://www.facebook.com/ groups/176043192500563/

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3liza:

ACTA passed one of the several voting gates it needs to get through before becoming law.

It was ratified in Poland last night.  This was the scene at Polish parliament afterwards, as (presumably) a bloc of anti-ACTA politicians expressed their displeasure and, perhaps without knowing it, foretell of the Anonymous repercussions to this bill.

Some things you should know:

• Online petitions are meaningless.  While they are well-intentioned and organized, the signing of a digital petition takes about twenty seconds, and does not require that you leave your beanbag chair in the coal cellar.  Politicians know this, and pay just as much attention to online petitions as is warranted by a “political action” that is literally less strenuous than leaving a YouTube comment.
• Nothing except direct action is going to do a goddamn thing.  This means getting out in the street, it means DDoSing, it means vicious and widespread boycotts, site blackouts, and other strongarm tactics that actually impact the flow of money from corporations to lobbyists to politicians.  How do you, as a tiny flailing consumer, do this?  You can’t, really.  You can join up with groups that are intent on doing actions that actually mean something, adding your voice to a chorus of hundreds or thousands, instead of screaming alone.  You can contact celebrities, the spokespeople of our time, as ask them to leverage their followers on the issue.  You can write to Tumblr and ask for more blackouts.  None of these things will be very effective, so don’t be too disappointed when they don’t work, but they sure as fuck are more effective than online petitions, and the intense response to SOPA by corporations and consumers was responsible for getting it “tabled” (not dead, but dreaming lies).
• ACTA was already signed by Obama in September of 2011.  He had been praising the bill for over a year prior, and signed it without reservation.  Most of us didn’t hear about it, and he likely used the 9/11 coverage to make sure of that.
  
  
• Eventually, one of these bills will pass, and the pro-corporate laws will go into effect.  Expect it.  Be prepared.  Learn to circumvent this garbage and you’ll have a leg up when the feds shut down the internet as we know it.
  
  
• The best thing you can do now is install Tor and learn how to use it.  Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.  In order to circumvent the coming corporate takeover of the web, we’re going to have to go underground, creating a sub-internet of encrypted nodes known as a “darknet”.  It’s probably going to be like the internet was in the beginning, with most people only seeing what AOL wanted them to see, and only a small group of super-nerds existing outside of that bubble in the “real” internet.  It’ll take another twenty years for them to catch up to us again.
  
  
• Welcome to the grim cyberpunk future.

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