getfiscal posted:
someone told me marxists dot org is down too
hitting congress where it hurts
ahahhaha
EmanuelaOrlandi posted:
Caribbean mexican island i live on
getfiscal posted:
someone told me marxists dot org is down too
hitting congress where it hurts
gahaha thats almost as misconceived as an actual pirating site going black for 24 hour in protest
In almost every case, the proposals that are enacted are ones favored by the White House and supported by all GOP lawmakers, and then Democrats split and enough of them join with Republicans to ensure that the GOP gets what it wants. That’s “bipartisanhip” in Washington:
To support the new Bush-supported FISA law:
GOP – 48-0
Dems – 12-36
To compel redeployment of troops from Iraq:
GOP – 0-49
Dems – 24-21
To confirm Michael Mukasey as Attorney General:
GOP – 46-0
Dems – 7-40
To confirm Leslie Southwick as Circuit Court Judge:
GOP – 49-0
Dems – 8-38
Kyl-Lieberman Resolution on Iran:
GOP – 46-2
Dems – 30-20
To condemn MoveOn.org:
GOP – 49-0
Dems – 23-25
The Protect America Act:
GOP – 44-0
Dems – 20-28
Declaring English to be the Government’s official language:
GOP – 48-1
Dems – 16-33
The Military Commissions Act:
GOP – 53-0
Dems – 12-34
To renew the Patriot Act:
GOP – 54-0
Dems – 34-10
Cloture Vote on Sam Alito’s confirmation to the Supreme Court:
GOP – 54-0
Dems – 18-25
Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq:
GOP – 48-1
Dems – 29-22
gyrofry posted:
where does ron paul stand
on top of a mountain of gold coins like scrooge mcduck
Ironicwarcriminal posted:
I thought wikipedia was blacked out because I kept ignoring those nerds whining about shit at the top of the page for the last few months.
Give it to me back, give me the free information, I want to read about Bogota's transit system.
every time i saw a new one of those id take a moment to look up the user featured, curious as to the sort of people who would lend their support. imagine my surprise the time i ended up on the wikipedia page for wikimedia foundation director sue gardner, containing a picutre of her with an israeli politician. dont worry, its not a zog conspiracy, all that happened was wikimania 2011 was held in haifa. below i reproduce the paragraph which as far as i know represents all the information on this event to be found in wikipedia proper. its full of laughs
Wikimania 2011 was held in Haifa, Israel, on August 4–7. The conference venue was the Haifa Auditorium and adjoining Beit Hecht cultural center on Mount Carmel. Keynote speakers at the conference included Yochai Benkler, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and Joseph M. Reagle Jr. of MIT, author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. Head of the Science and Technology Committee at the Knesset, Meir Sheetrit, also spoke at the conference, as did Yonah Yahav, the Mayor of Haifa. One of the sponsors of the event was Haifa University. Wikimania 2011 included 125 sessions in five simultaneous tracks. It was attended by 720 Wikimedians from 56 different countries, including some that have no diplomatic relations with Israel. Among the new projects discussed was collaboration with cultural institutions such as galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Another first for Wikimania was a Saturday-night beach party. At the end of the closing ceremony on August 7, Jimmy Wales was presented with the first day cover of a special stamp edition issued by the Israeli postal service in honor of Wikipedia's 10th anniversary. Wikimedia Israel also surprised Wales with a cake in honor of his birthday. After the conference, participants were offered a free tour of Haifa, Jerusalem, Nazareth or Akko. One of the topics discussed at the conference at the initiative of Sue Gardner was the Western male-dominated mind-set that characterizes Wikipedia today.Shay Yakir, outgoing chairman of Wikimedia Israel, said that for Israel, holding the conference in Haifa was like hosting the Olympic Games.
Groulxsmith posted:i support sopa
As Seen On: The Consumerist
The horror..
I suspect it's an effort to destroy wikileaks and control the potential of the internet as an uncontrollable source of information. I don't believe in the twitter revolution or that garbage but Wikileaks and the Arab Spring that at least partially came from it scared the hell out of American elites. If that's the case, I can't see it being stopped. Only reason it's getting protested at all (unlike the Patriot act) is because it's poorly made and hasn't been sold well at all by Obama and his incompetent administration.
babyhueypnewton posted:
Wikileaks and the Arab Spring that at least partially came from it scared the hell out of American elites. If that's the case, I can't see it being stopped.
what about by world revolution? sounds like someone gave up on marxism.
babyhueypnewton posted:
because it's poorly made
the successor bill which takes into account and preserves the profit margins of Google et. al. will sail on through like a clipper
CBS posted:
(CBS) - An anti-piracy law passed in Spain on Jan. 3 has striking similarities to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that is stirring controversy in the U.S.
The Sinde Law, which is named after former Spanish Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, lets copyright holders report websites that host content which infringes on their rights. The government must then choose to take action against the site or ISP. If moved along, a judge will decide whether or not to shut down the website.
What's interesting about the law is that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) alleges the U.S. had a hand in pushing Spain to pass the legislation.
The EFF cited Wikileaks cables given to Spanish newspaper El Pais. The cables suggest the U.S. threatened to put Spain on the Special 301 report if the country did not tighten up online piracy laws.
Special 301 is a report compiled by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) used to review global intellectual property rights, protection and enforcement.
The 2008 cable drafted by the U.S. Embassy in Madrid and later published by El Pais stated:
"We propose to tell the new government that Spain will appear on the Watch List if it does not do three things by October 2008. First, issue a GOS announcement stating that internet piracy is illegal, and that the copyright levy system does not compensate creators for copyrighted material acquired through peer-to-peer file sharing. Second, amend the 2006 "Circular" that is widely interpreted in Spain as saying that peer-to-peer file sharing is legal. Third, announce that the GOS will adopt measures along the lines of the French and/or UK proposals aimed at curbing internet piracy by the summer of 2009."
Countries added to the "priority watch list" could be subjected to trade sanctions that would be consequential to their economy. Spain's precarious financial situation would no doubt suffer from retaliation under the Special 301 ranking.
A recent study cited by The Atlantic put Spain's unemployment rate in the mid-20 percent range. And pointed out the country piled up more private debt than most other countries during the economic bust.
In the U.S., SOPA and its sister law the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are facing opposition from Internet giants Google, Facebook and eBay, among others.
SOPA is intended to curb the illegal download of copyrighted materials from foreign "rogue" sites, like The Pirate Bay. There is already legislation that provides some protection for copyrighted material, like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which requires companies to remove copyrighted content "in good faith."
Worst-case scenarios are being debated. The Electronic Frontier Foundation speculates, "Instead of complying with the DMCA, a copyright owner may now be able to use these new provisions to effectively shut down a site by cutting off access to its domain name, its search engine hits, its ads, and its other financing even if the safe harbors would apply."
germanjoey posted:Cycloneboy posted:
stop online piracy? but i love piracy...how else will i get my animes...
i wrote down the necessary ip addresses and keep them in my wallet in case of an emergency, an internet emergency
Skylark posted:
Does anyone know why Megaupload gets called a "piracy ring" in every article, and talks about the founders being involved in what sounds like organized crime. Obviously the sites had illegal stuff on them but that doesn't make them necessarily accountable, imo, when they had a piracy-reporting system; also I'm sure that having a file-sharing medium isn't inherently illegal, even though it can be used for illegal things.
kim "dotcom" schmitz is being charged with racketeering & "conspiring to commit money laundering"
Goethestein posted:
lmfao