US seeks to restrict internet freedom in America

Today Hillary Clinton was at The Hague to advocate for internet freedom. Hillary and other US officials are encouraging governments abroad to embrace internet freedom, but at home are pushing to restrict the same freedom. Obama has said the more freely information flows the stronger a society becomes. But why would these same officials want new regulations that would limit the information in America. Mike Riggs, associate editor for Reason Magazine, helps us understand the internet hypocrisy. Show Less

Congress working over holidays to jam through SOPA

Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate Hollywood is to pass this bill as quickly as possible, before the momentum of opposition builds up even further.

"Firewall" (Don't Let Our Government Ruin The Internets)

----LYRICS----
From the first time I signed onto AOL
I'd fall underneath your dial-up spell
You do something to me, want to be with you always

I hoped that we would never see the day
SOPA would try to change you, or take you away
All the things you've shown me, you make me feel complete

Tumblr, Facebook, Vimeo, and Twitter
Youtube LolCatz, Ebay, and Flickr

Don't put up a firewall when we could have it all
Say no to protect IP
You won't stop piracy
Don't put up a firewall
Don't take away my Tumblr

You know I want to stop infringing sites
But Congress please don't make me give up my rights
to friend reblog and follow
upload tweet and post

All this in the name of property
at the expense of the tech community
you're threatening our cybersecurity
and free speech

Zynga, Mozilla, Google, and Yahoo!
The coders, the bloggers, the start-ups
all get screwed

Don't put up a firewall when we could have it all
Say no to protect IP
You won't stop piracy
What is this China?

Don't treat me like a rogue site it hurts
Don't erase me from your search
someone could spend more time in jail than conrad murray
for illegally downloading a michael jackson song!

Anti-SOPA activists find ways to keep the Internet free

Doesn't anybody else find it peculiar that there is all this hacking taking place lately?

Their claiming that a company called Stratford (that handles transactions for the government and large corporations) has taken place. Then "supposedly" the pentagon was hacked last week.

They are blaming it on a group called "Anonymous" . The same group that has hacked facebook and other sites.

Personally I have a suspicion that there is no group called anonymous.

It is actually the government hacking itself.

Namely the DHS, DARPA, CIA and the FBI among others, pushing security false flags in a effort to build support for the SOPA act.

MoveYourDomain Day - Dec 29, 2011 - Exercise your right and unite a...

DHS Creates Accounts Solely to Monitor Social Networks

If your a fed on 12160, please notify your admin :)

DHS is also a Nazi copy cat (and I mean no disrespect to the felines)

Notification to admin...the guy/girl to my immediate right has been acting suspiciously...posting all kinds of pro government and pro globalist propaganda. He is wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, espousing the words of Karl Marx and Benny Hill.

Seriously, if you are working for the feds and here to antagonize us with weak divide and conquer strategies...give it up...you have already lost.

@James, I hope you're listening to this.  I think it's being suggested that we should ban anyone who works for the feds, acts suspiciously, is wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, and is trying to antagonize this site with divide and conquer strategies.  This is weird, I'm having one of those Déjà vu episodes.

There is a work around to hackers, turn the machine(s)off, and enjoy the moon tonight, plus Jupiter directly over head.  Pat my head later for the head's up.

SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren't Covering SOPA [STUDY]

MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CBS and NBC have dedicated no time to covering the Stop Online Piracy Act in their evening newscasts since Oct. 1, according to a report by Ben Dimiero of Media Matters For America.

CNN, meanwhile, has dedicated a single evening news segment to the issue. All of the companies covered in the report have either publicly supported SOPA or have parent companies that have done so.

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Comcast/NBCUniversal (which owns MSNBC and NBC News), Viacom (CBS), News Corporation (Fox News), Time Warner (CNN) and Disney (ABC) are all listed as supporters of the bill. ABC and CBS are also listed as separate supporters of the bill.

Senator Rand Paul on NDAA, SOPA, Indefinite Detention of American Citizens

http://www.wearechange.org

?? Twitter users are being tricked into joining Anonymous cyber attacks on U.S. government - and could be jailed 1newsjunkie.blogspot.com

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay

woo hoo.lets go Dutch

http://www.naturalnews.com/034802_ACTA_counterfeiting_piracy.html

https://www.eff.org/pages/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement

Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist

A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity. The document, part of a program called “Communities Against Terrorism”, lists the use of “anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address” as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. The use of encryption is also listed as a suspicious activity along with steganography, the practice of using “software to hide encrypted data in digital photos” or other media. In fact, the flyer recommends that anyone “overly concerned about privacy” or attempting to “shield the screen from view of others” should be considered suspicious and potentially engaged in terrorist activities.

Hacker group Teamp0isoN hacked the United Nations and released usernames and passwords of more than 1,000 email accounts.http://techzwn.com/2011/11/teamp0ison-hacks-un-releases-1000-emails/

"Hacker group Teamp0isoN hacked the United Nations and released usernames and passwords of more than 1,000 email accounts"

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on second thought

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FBI & Scotland Yard phone call hacked: Hacker group "Anonymous" has claimed responsibility for posting a 16-minu... bit.ly/yr8MvZ

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

on second thought

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Online surveillance critics accused of supporting child porn

Critics of a bill that would give law enforcement new powers to access Canadians' electronic communications are aligning themselves with child pornographers, Canada's public safety minister says.

FBI might shutdown the Internet on March

Millions of computer users across the world could be blocked off from the Internet as early as March 8 if the FBI follows through with plans to yank a series of servers originally installed to combat corruption.

US signs ACTA

The United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on Saturday, an accord targeting intellectual property piracy.

The European Union, Mexico and Switzerland—the only other governments participating in the accord’s creation—did not sign the deal at a ceremony in Japan but "confirmed their continuing strong support for and preparations to sign the agreement as soon as practical," the parties said in a joint statement.

The United States applauded the deal.

Facebook Backdoor Interception: FBI wants P2P and social media wire...

Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World
07-06-2012  •  http://www.wired.com, By Ryan Tate 
As money floods into their market, and the stakes get ever higher, app makers are getting paranoid. Paranoid that competitors are buying traffic spikes, using porn to attract users, and spamming everyone and their mom on the way to the top of the lea 

Cisco Angers A Lot Of People By Outlawing Porn On Home Routers
07-06-2012  •  http://www.businessinsider.com, Julie Bort 
Cisco Systems told users of its new high-end home routers -- in a roundabout way -- they couldn't use their routers for porn or to send certain types of e-mail and a whole list of other things. 

I'm sure Cisco was just trying to protect the children, lol.

Homeland Security Issuing Its Own DMCA Takedowns On YouTube To Stif...

Google URL Takedown Requests Up 100% In a Month, Up 1137% On 2011

Spyware developed by a UK group can take control of a number of mobile devices, including iPhones and BlackBerrys and computers, turning on microphones and cameras, tracking locations and monitoring emails, text messages and voice calls. Gamma International specializes in governmental IT intrusion.Spyware developed by a UK group can take control of a number of mob...

FCC backpedals from Internet tax

The Federal Communications Commission is rapidly backpedalling from a proposal to tax broadband Internet service after a public outcry over the issue.

Democrats and Republicans at the agency are now blaming each other for pushing the idea in the first place.

Neil Grace, a spokesman for Chairman Julius Genachowski, said the commission only made the proposal “following the urging of Republican Commissioners and members of Congress." 

"The Chairman remains unconvinced that including broadband is the right approach,” he said.

Robert McDowell, the only Republican on the commission when the proposal was floated earlier this year, flatly rejected that he ever supported the idea.

"I have never suggested taxing broadband Internet access," he told The Hill.

McDowell said he is skeptical that the FCC even has the legal authority to tax Internet service.

Consumers already pay a fee on their landline and wireless phone bills to support the FCC's Universal Service Fund, which aims to provide phone service to everyone in the country, even if they live in remote areas.

Last year, the FCC overhauled a $4.5 billion portion of the Universal Service Fund and converted it into a broadband Internet subsidy, called the Connect America Fund. The new fund aims to subsidize the construction of high-speed Internet networks to the estimated 19 million Americans who currently lack access. 

But the money for the new Internet subsidy is still coming from the fees on phone bills.

REST 'O IT

Millions of GoDaddy sites taken offline by hackers http://dlvr.it/27frLg

Feds snoop on social-network accounts without warrants

About 11 Sept. 2012 in Bengazi:
FIRST, it WAS NOT a true “Embassy”–but a collection of rented villas for CIA SPIES. Second Stevens was running heavy weapons through Bengazi to Syria and other places to cause unrest.
Third, Stevens died of smoke innihilation..The Green Resistance who set fire to the “offices” did not know anyone was still in the building.
Again, The uSA and GNC puppets do not want anyone to know that it was the Green Resistance, because they want to deny the existance of the Green Resistance (instead say “a few scagglers of ‘Gaddai-supporters’ are only left”) …so they can continue their charade and façade of ‘legitmacy’ !!
THIS WAS NOT an al-Qaeda operation, as Al-Qaeda work for the USA.

Maria Van Der Meel writes:
“What a total cover-up. Thanks Christella”

@Maria, I was told that that Obama has made similiar spies nests throughout the world.

Data mining firms admit to legislators that personal info is collec...

Madison Ruppert, Contributor
Activist Post

The data mining industry is booming with no signs of slowing down thanks to increasing integration with other systems like facial recognition and an increasing reluctance to comply with any and all requests from users to maintain privacy.

Now a group of the largest data mining companies admitted to a bipartisan body of legislators in the House that they indeed mine social networks like Facebook for personal information which they then sell to third parties for advertising and “other purposes,” according to Hillicon Valley...

Senate Narrowly Votes Down Cybersecurity Act Again

Eric Blair
Activist Post

Desperate for Internet control, Senate leaders once again put the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 up for a vote yesterday, and yet again, it failed to pass. But this time it was one vote closer (51 to 47) to passing than its August defeat (52 to 46).

The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, first introduced in 2010 by Joe Lieberman, was quickly dubbed the Internet Kill Switch Bill because of the power it gives to the executive branch to seize or shut down parts of the Internet in a cyber emergency.

At the time Lieberman justified this draconian power grab by saying, "Right now, China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in a case of war. We need to have that here, too." ...

Last week, we posted a list of open questions about how voters’ personal information was used in the 2012 presidential election (and how it’ll be used now that the election’s over). We posted the questions on our blog and on the social news site Reddit, and lo and behold, someone from the Obama campaign’s data mining team answered!

Although he wasn’t in charge of the data mining operations, his answers still give some insight into how personal information drove the campaign. We found it especially unsettling to see how much detailed Facebook data is up for sale for marketing, regardless of whether you’ve set your Facebook account to be more private (see his answer to question 4).

We’re posting our questions and his answers below (note that we haven’t edited his answers at all, except to format their numbering):

1. Abine: How detailed did the profiles that the campaign built up about people get? Like, was it “category of single guys in OH who like microbrews,” or “John Smith in OH who hasn’t had a girlfriend in 3 years and always drinks Dogfishhead?” Bonus: can we see a (redacted) real profile?

Campaign Employee: “I wasn’t high enough to get end results, but I saw some of the print outs upstairs… They know everything Google and FB know about you, pretty much. They know what music you like, which Harry Potter book is your favorite, your voting habits, etc. It’s all in databases, you’re just a number in a DB with a name attached.” 

2. Abine: It sounds like databases have become a valuable asset in a growing number of campaigns. Is there anything stopping, say, the losing party who’s in campaign debt and has to answer to creditors from selling the data to marketers and other third parties to help fulfill that debt?

Campaign Employee: “Again, I’m not the person to talk to about that, didn’t even think to ask that. I AM in advertising with a focus on DB marketing though and it depends on the conditions on which they got your data and what they agreed to in the process.”

3. Abine: Let’s talk about online tracking. Advertisers always argue that the data they collect doesn’t pose any privacy problems because it’s aggregated and “de-personalized,” while researchers say there’s no such thing as truly anonymous tracking. Given your experience, who’s closer to the truth?

Campaign Employee: “I’ve worked on advertising campaigns before. I can tell you that as long as the databases aren’t leaked, you’re fairly safe. They will have your name, CCN, SSN etc. but most of that is only used to match personally identifiable information to you (matching your Amazon spending habits to your FB “likes” for example). In other words, the latter, but it’s happened since the first targeted print ads. Magazines and newspapers have collected similar data without you knowing for decades.”

https://www.abine.com/blog/2012/update-answers-from-an-obama-campai...

Orin Kerr was on the Kojo Nnamdi show (on DC’s NPR station, 88.5 WAMU) this morning ... with Julian Sanchez and Julia Angwin. It’s a one-hour program that was inspired by the Petraeus investigation but turned to many of the broader issues of online investigations and privacy.

You can listen here:

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/audio-player?nid=22494

CIA-Sponsored Trolls Monitor Internet & Interact With Users to Discredit Factual Information http://occupycorporatism.com/cia-sponsored-trolls-monitor-internet-...

Alex Jones Connected To Stratfor/Israel CIA Front

U.N. Report Reveals International Protocol for Tracking People Online

The document outlines the stages law enforcement agencies should go through when conducting electronic surveillance of suspects: first, by obtaining data and “cookies” stored by websites like Facebook, Google, eBay and Paypal; second, by obtaining location data from servers used by VoIP Internet phone services (like Skype); then, by conducting a “smart analysis” of these data before moving on to the most serious and controversial step: intercepting communications, exploiting security vulnerabilities in communications technologies for “intelligence-gathering purposes,” and even infecting a target computer with Trojan-horse spyware to mine data.

anyone who invokes god needs to learn.

TWITTER: 250k accounts hacked

Wireless Mesh Networks – The Internet Censorship Solution

Fabulous must see video! James Corbett again brilliantly nails the ongoing internet "war of attrition" by our would-be controllers. More than that, he introduces our ultimate solution to their clampdown - a decentralized pirate internet via "mesh networks"!

Get ready, folks, it's about to come to that, same story as in all fascist clampdowns. They can't stamp us out as hard as these bastards try. Listen and learn and start getting hooked up. Keep on!

Level 3 Outage Disrupts East Coast Internet Traffic 19 Oct 2013 Internet users from Brooklyn to Philadelphia suffered slow to nonexistent service Saturday after equipment at a New York-area network hub broke down, disrupting service for several hours. A spokesman for the Internet service provider Level 3 Communications Inc. said technicians were working quickly to fix the outage, which cascaded down to customers using Cablevision Systems Corp.'s Optimum service and Time Warner Cable Inc., among others. It wasn't immediately clear Saturday why traffic from cable subscribers in New York and New Jersey wasn't rerouted around Level 3.