Monthly Archives: April 2012

House Passes CISPA, Tell Senate to Save Your Privacy!

Today, the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a vote of 248 to 168. Unfortunately, which of the Massachusetts delegation voted for CISPA is unknown, though Congressmen Markey and Olver have come out … Continue reading

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May 12th Free Film Fest Schedule

While we are a bit preoccupied with stopping the CISPA spy bill (more on that in the next blog post), we finalized the schedule for our May 12th Free Open Film Fest. Please spread the word about it. We will … Continue reading

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Mass. Pirate Party opposes CISPA, urges supporters to tell Congress

The Massachusetts Pirate Party opposes the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) – H.R.3523 as a violation of our fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of speech. CISPA is would allow federal and state governments to request detailed records … Continue reading

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We are The Party of Open

As we mentioned a few blog posts back, we started a discussion recently about how can we briefly describe what we are for. David Hardwick once suggested that we should be the party of open, and there is a certain … Continue reading

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Copyright Battle Tactics Talk Posted

Michael Anderson’s conference talk, Copyright Battle Tactics, is now up at our Youtube page. You can find the other talks we posted at our 2012 conference page. Tweet

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Join us at Together Boston this week

Captain James O’Keefe will be speaking tomorrow at Together Boston‘s Patently Stupid panel.  Together Boston is a Electronic Music Festival in Cambridge and Boston that runs until Sunday, April 8th. The panel will be this Wednesday, April 4th at noon … Continue reading

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