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ACTA: The new threat to the net

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet_spread/ Amazing! We smashed our 2 million target as we delivered to key decision-makers in Brussels this week -- let's get to 3 million before the crucial parliamentary debates Posted: 25 January 2012 Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet!

Order: Kill non-mainstream reporters in Libya, What U.S. is hiding - National Human Rights | Examiner.com

http://www.examiner.com/article/order-kill-non-mainstream-reporters-libya-what-u-s-is-hiding Human Rights Examiner Deborah Dupre' holds American and Australian science and education graduate degrees plus thirty years human rights, environmental and peace activism; led Aboriginal Pacific Islander and Australian research; holds pivotal role in FUEL; co-founded America's Green Team, FUEL; lectures on Ancient...
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Will Apps Unravel the World Wide Web? | WebProNews

The title we went with on this article may come off as a bit sensational, but some pretty high profile web veterans might not think so.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/radiorahim/2011/08/freedom-box-make-technology-supports-freedom-turn-freedom I've been meaning to write this post for a long time, but like many of you I've been wasting far too much time on Facebook.

The Freedom Box: Make technology that supports freedom. Turn freedom on! | rabble.ca

The Internet advocacy group OpenMedia.ca released a short online documentary today as part of its continued campaign against proposed federal Internet surveillance laws. Entitled (un)Lawful Access, the 14-minute documentary features nine privacy, surveillance, and journalism experts who discuss the Harper government's proposed cyber-surveillance reforms, commonly known as "Lawful Access" legislation. http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Rights-Justice/2011/10/03/Lawful-Access-OpenMedia-Doc/

Open media group warns of 'wider campaign to control the Internet' in new mini-doc :: The Hook

The Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to release a ruling Wednesday morning in the case of Wayne Crookes, who argues that publishing hyperlinks to defamatory material is the same as publishing the defamatory material itself. Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/10/18/supreme-court-defamation-hyperlink-decision.html

Supreme Court to rule on hyperlink libel case - Canada - CBC News

http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/06/07/censorship-vs-copyright/ There’s one more day to back the Mimi & Eunice’s Intellectual Pooperty minibook project!

Censorship Vs. Copyright « Mimi and Eunice

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/07/14/technology-us-cyberwar-cyberspace.html#.Th8jhZACUUg.facebook According to Marine Gen. James Cartwright, the Pentagon currently focuses 90 per cent of its cybersecurity effort on defence and 10 per cent on offence. He believes a better balance for the U.S. government as a whole would be 50-50.

U.S. declares cyberspace a new warfare domain - Technology & Science - CBC News

http://torrentfreak.com/suppressed-report-found-busted-pirate-site-users-were-good-consumers-110719/ In June, police across several countries raided the operators of streaming video links portal Kino.to. This massive operation was one of the largest of its type and site admins and users alike were branded as enemies of the TV and movie business. However, it now appears that in respect of the latter group, the opposite was found to be true.

Suppressed Report Found Busted Pirate Site Users Were Good Consumers | TorrentFreak

Facebook bans Google+ ad | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Ingenuity is surely something to be admired.
One report reveals that over 300 activists were tracked, detained, and in some case deported after organizing events on the popular social networking site.

Facebook Now Helping Governments Spy On And Arrest Peaceful Activists :

Today is the day of reckoning. In January of this year, we reported that Google was changing its algorithm to punish “content farming” websites. We predicted that this change would punish some alternative news aggregators .

» Google Updates PageRank: Top Alternative News Aggregator Punished Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!