Source: EFF.org

U.S. Citizens - Oppose this Bill!

From EFF.org - "The U.S. House of Representatives is currently considering H.R. 1981, a bill that would order all of our online service providers to keep new logs about our online activities, logs to help the government identify the web sites we visit and the content we post online. This sweeping new "mandatory data retention" proposal treats every Internet user like a potential criminal and represents a clear and present danger to the online free speech and privacy rights of millions of innocent Americans."

Let's face it America.  Big Content and the U.S. government are doing whatever they can to spy on us.  They are looking for anyway possible to put the little privacy we have into an interrogation room.  As a Nation of Independent free thinkers, tinkerers, designers, developers and enthusiasts it is of the utmost importance that we band together and keep a gleaming "Sauron's eye" on the information hungry entities wanting to consume and record every action we make.  Join in the fight with EFF.org and other people across the U.S. and strike down this bill.

A good place to start is by following this link, reading the Action request from the EFF, and shooting the legislature down.

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=497

source: Ars Technica

A 23 year old British man named Richard O'Dwyer is facing extradition charges to the United States allegedly for copyright infringement.  O'Dwyer was one of many site operators whose domain TVshack was seized by ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement).  The brain and hair pulling about it all - his site was a link site, not to mention that O'Dwyer has no connection to the U.S. except for being there once as a child.  His domain and website was not even hosted on U.S. servers.

Take note "CHILLLLLDREN" because if ol' Richie gets sent to the U.S. to face criminal charges then it means anyone that has a link to infringing materials or infringes themselves can face extradition and furthermore U.S. Justice, which in this case isn't justice at all.

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source: Ars Technica

A U.S. man going by the name of Greg Maxwell has posted 32GB of JSTOR scientific documents to The Pirate Bay.  The documents released are pre-1923 which according to U.S. copyright law should be within the public domain.  Instead, JSTOR charges fee's for academics and researches to obtain documents and scientific journals, even if they are from before 1923.  The release comes in the wake of the arrest of one time Reddit Co-Founder Aaron Swartz for allegedly downloading roughly 4.8 million documents from the JSTOR database.

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source: digitaltrends.com

Forget Google+ – the future of social networking shuns identities altogether. We got an exclusive look inside Anon+, the first-ever anonymous social network.

Earlier this week, Google banned pages related to loose-knit hacker group Anonymous from its hot new social network, Google+. Fed up with the apparent censorship, a group of like-minded hackers, programmers and other digital underground activists decided to take the realm of social networking into their own hands by creating the world’s first-ever anonymous social network.