The first Occupy-Movement in my hometown Dortmund, Germany, had 30 people running in the streets. The ACTA protest leaders from last saturday expected 300 people for their demonstrations. But finally 2500 citizens (official number) showed up in the end and topped all expectations. So far, the protests have forced the european prime ministers of Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Latvia to reconsider the agreement, but they have not yet dismissed it. It has to be killed, worldwide. So thanks to every single one out there for protesting against lobbyism that would aggravate poverty in third world countries and walking peacefully to protect our privacy. Here is a video of the Stop ACTA demonstration in Dortmund by Matt Dolibog:
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Montag, 13. Februar 2012
Massive Anti ACTA demonstrations worldwide with huge success
SOPA and PIPA are stopped in the US - for now. But ACTA is coming up worldwide and it will be even worse. That`s why Last Saturday, Feb. 11th 2012, hundred of thousands demonstrated against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) all over the world. People across four continents claimed to reconsider the agreement which would definitely change the internet and the privacy of their users as we know them till now. ACTA is censorship and gives foreign governments and copyright owners incredibly broad powers.
The first Occupy-Movement in my hometown Dortmund, Germany, had 30 people running in the streets. The ACTA protest leaders from last saturday expected 300 people for their demonstrations. But finally 2500 citizens (official number) showed up in the end and topped all expectations. So far, the protests have forced the european prime ministers of Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Latvia to reconsider the agreement, but they have not yet dismissed it. It has to be killed, worldwide. So thanks to every single one out there for protesting against lobbyism that would aggravate poverty in third world countries and walking peacefully to protect our privacy. Here is a video of the Stop ACTA demonstration in Dortmund by Matt Dolibog:
The first Occupy-Movement in my hometown Dortmund, Germany, had 30 people running in the streets. The ACTA protest leaders from last saturday expected 300 people for their demonstrations. But finally 2500 citizens (official number) showed up in the end and topped all expectations. So far, the protests have forced the european prime ministers of Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Latvia to reconsider the agreement, but they have not yet dismissed it. It has to be killed, worldwide. So thanks to every single one out there for protesting against lobbyism that would aggravate poverty in third world countries and walking peacefully to protect our privacy. Here is a video of the Stop ACTA demonstration in Dortmund by Matt Dolibog:
Dienstag, 17. Januar 2012
SOPA/PIPA: American Law, World Problem
The big news in the world today are the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) which both are being developed in regards to online piracy and copyright infringement. Sounds simple? Well, right now they are two most controversial bills, much like the NDAA ,that also infringe on personal privacy and freedom, brought to you by, the US Senate floor. Thought be shelved and vetoed, they are back on the table for restructure and a possible vote later this year, read more here. Supported, as usual, by a combination of democratic and republican lobbyist, movie and music entertainment moguls, and some of the largest internet corporation such as GoDaddy.com, if these bills go through not only is the entire internet risking possible damage to it very core foundation, freedom of speech, but will also it undermine years innovation and integrity.
How will these bills work if implemented? That will be the catch. You see, it is all based on what is "deemed" as copyright infringement. Take the current Wikileaks for example, what if the US Government, or any government for that matter, decided to copyright sensitive, high-security information. The result would be, that under these bills, the US could have all links pointing to Wikileaks terminated, thus terminating the websites accessibility and rendering it useless. The scary thing is that this can be used in platforms such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Flickr, Twitter, etc—all platforms that were highly utilized by the Occupy Wall Street and Arab Spring movements. SOPA would not only institute the same practices as regimes such as China and Iran that outlaw the tools used by activists and thus circumventing censorship—Even scarier, take this out of the US/European agenda and put these types of bills in the hands of other countries. This possibility of a governments ability to squash dissent is appalling and completely unconstitutional in US politics as it goes against the First Amendment of the United States that says,
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Thinks about the type of message this sends to the world. On TIME's Techland blog, Jerry Brito wrote,
"Imagine if the U.K. created a blacklist of American newspapers that its courts found violated celebrities' privacy? Or what if France blocked American sites it believed contained hate speech?" Similarly, the Center for Democracy and Technology warned, If SOPA and PIPA are enacted, the US government must be prepared for other governments to follow suit, in service to whatever social policies they believe are important—whether restricting hate speech, insults to public officials, or political dissent."
The only way a website will be able to declare immunity from this will be to voluntarily police their own sites and censor. All of this means that it will be harder to share information online. Bottomline!
Reporter/Activist Amy Goodman from Democracy Now reports:
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/17/wikipedia_reddit_to_shut_down_sites
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate — that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
—Mikolaj N. Bakunin
How will these bills work if implemented? That will be the catch. You see, it is all based on what is "deemed" as copyright infringement. Take the current Wikileaks for example, what if the US Government, or any government for that matter, decided to copyright sensitive, high-security information. The result would be, that under these bills, the US could have all links pointing to Wikileaks terminated, thus terminating the websites accessibility and rendering it useless. The scary thing is that this can be used in platforms such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Flickr, Twitter, etc—all platforms that were highly utilized by the Occupy Wall Street and Arab Spring movements. SOPA would not only institute the same practices as regimes such as China and Iran that outlaw the tools used by activists and thus circumventing censorship—Even scarier, take this out of the US/European agenda and put these types of bills in the hands of other countries. This possibility of a governments ability to squash dissent is appalling and completely unconstitutional in US politics as it goes against the First Amendment of the United States that says,
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Thinks about the type of message this sends to the world. On TIME's Techland blog, Jerry Brito wrote,
"Imagine if the U.K. created a blacklist of American newspapers that its courts found violated celebrities' privacy? Or what if France blocked American sites it believed contained hate speech?" Similarly, the Center for Democracy and Technology warned, If SOPA and PIPA are enacted, the US government must be prepared for other governments to follow suit, in service to whatever social policies they believe are important—whether restricting hate speech, insults to public officials, or political dissent."
The only way a website will be able to declare immunity from this will be to voluntarily police their own sites and censor. All of this means that it will be harder to share information online. Bottomline!
Reporter/Activist Amy Goodman from Democracy Now reports:
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/17/wikipedia_reddit_to_shut_down_sites
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate — that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
—Mikolaj N. Bakunin
The Internet must remain free! - Wikipedia kündigt Blackout an
Am Mittwoch, dem 18. Januar ist es soweit. Eine noch nie dagewesene Protestaktion startet um 6 Uhr CET und endet 12 bis 24 Stunden später. Verschiedenste Internet - und Social Media Dienste beteiligen sich an der Aktion "Blackout", um auf die geplanten Gesetzentwürfe SOPA und PIPA der US Regierung aufmerksam zu machen. Es geht dabei um den Kampf für die Netzfreiheit in den Vereinigten Staaten. Für nähere Infos empfehle ich unseren Post "Stop SOPA - Im Kampf für die Netzfreiheit" vom 12. Jan. 2012. Bei der Aktion wird es am Mittwoch auch zu einer Abschaltung der englischsprachigen Wikipediaseite kommen.
Wikipedia Gründer Jimmy Wales twitterte: "Ich beginne gerade Presseanfragen über den kommenden Blackout zu beantworten. Das wird ein Knaller. Ich hoffe Wikipedia wird die Telefonleitungen am Mittwoch in Washington glühen lassen. Erzählt es jedem den ihr kennt! Freiheit wird niemals freiwillig von den Unterdrückern gebilligt, es muss immer von den Unterdrückten eingefordert werden. Am Mittwoch fordert Wikipedia ein." -C.
Wikipedia Gründer Jimmy Wales twitterte: "Ich beginne gerade Presseanfragen über den kommenden Blackout zu beantworten. Das wird ein Knaller. Ich hoffe Wikipedia wird die Telefonleitungen am Mittwoch in Washington glühen lassen. Erzählt es jedem den ihr kennt! Freiheit wird niemals freiwillig von den Unterdrückern gebilligt, es muss immer von den Unterdrückten eingefordert werden. Am Mittwoch fordert Wikipedia ein." -C.
Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012
Stop SOPA - Der Kampf für die Netzfreiheit
Ein Aufschrei hallt durch die internationale Netzgemeinde. Sergey Brin und Larry Page, beide Gründer von Google, Wikipedia Gründer Jimmy Wales, aber auch Konzerne wie YouTube, Ebay und Facebook sehen einem radikalen Eingriff in die Internetfreiheit am Horizont und wenden sich mit offenen Briefen an ihre digitale Anhängerschaft sowie an den Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten. Was passiert da eigentlich?
Der "Stop Online Piracy Act", kurz SOPA, sowie der "Protect IP Act" PIPA sind lobbyistisch geforderte Gesetzentwürfe, die dem Kongress vorliegen. Die Lobbyisten, dass sind in diesem Falle keine bösen Ölmultis oder Militärs, es sind die sonst so harmlosen Entertainmentindustrien, bestehend aus Film und Musikbranchen. Sie fordern in dem vorgelegten Gesetzentwurf eine staatliche Kontrolle über Netzinhalte in den USA. Sollte dieser Entwurf durchgesetzt werden, dürfen einzelne Kongressabgeordnete richterliche Prüfungen und Verordnungen gegen Netzfirmen und Provider verhängen. Die jetzt diskutierten Gesetze greifen somit tief in die Infrastruktur und Nutzungsrechte des Internet ein. So sollen Filterlisten angelegt werden, wie sie in Deutschland als Maßnahme gegen Kinderpornografie vorgesehen waren und schließlich abgelehnt wurden - und das nicht, um potenzielle Opfer vor Verbrechern zu schützen wie es in Deutschland der Fall war, sondern um die Interessen der Musik- und Filmwirtschaft durchzusetzen. Provider fürchten, das in den USA unter Umständen sogar einzelne Datenpakete auf vermeintliche Raubkopie-Material durchleuchtet werden müssen. Eine derartige "Deep Packet Inspection" wird ansonsten nur von repressiven Regimen, etwa im Iran, eingesetzt, um Internet-Inhalte zu zensieren und Andersdenkende zu verfolgen. Sollten freie Technologiefirmen gezwungen werden, als verlängerter Arm von Regierungsinstitutionen zu dienen, werden die Grundrechte von Anbietern sowie deren Kunden auf Informations- und Meinungsfreiheit massiv behindert.
Das Internet ist und muss unbedingt ein absoluter Freiraum für die Masse bleiben, es gehört uns allen. Jegliche Reglementierung von Seiten des Staates muss unterbunden werden, bei uns genauso wie überall sonst auf der Welt. Wenn Facebook, YouTube & Co per Gesetz gezwungen werden können, einzelne User zu sperren oder diverse Services in bestimmten Ländern abzuschalten, ist die Revolution des Web 2.0 gestorben. Natürlich sind die Probleme der Musik - und Filmindustrie ernstzunehmen. Die Diskussionen darum erreichen mittlerweile ihr zehntes Lebensjahr. Doch dieser Weg ist mit Sicherheit der Falsche. Statt Bürger bestimmter Staaten per Gesetz zu begrenzen, sollten die Energien lieber in neue Techniken und Vermarktungen der Branche investiert werden. Pioniere wie Steve Jobs haben der Entertainmentbranche mehr als nur die Hand gereicht, im Gegenteil, die freien Nutzer waren in letzter Konsequenz sogar die erlösenden Retter, indem sie massenhaft Musik und Filme über die Wege konsumierten, die Jobs für sie baute. Dieser Gemeinde von Konsumenten nun von hinten das Messer in den Rücken zu stechen klingt nach reaktionärer Trotzhaftigkeit.
Laut Internetberichten steht eine erste Protestwelle der Anbieter an: Um auf die Situation aufmerksam zu machen, wollen einige von ihnen einen angekündigten Black Out simulieren, heisst, den Service für eine angegebene Zeit einstellen. Am 18. Januar startet der Social Media Aggregator REDDIT mit einem 12stündigen Black Out auf seiner Hauptseite. Unterstützung bekommen sie von diversen Anonymous Diensten, die sich solidarisch "still" schalten werden. -C.
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