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Category Archives: Freedom of Speech
Supreme Court Kills 4th Amendment On-line
Yesterday the Supreme Court killed our 4th Amendment right to privacy on-line. In a 5-4 vote, they ruled that the ACLU and other plaintiffs did not have standing to bring their case challenging the FISA Amendments Act that allowed warrantless wiretapping. … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Privacy
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Aaron was a casualty of the War on Sharing
Aaron Swartz, a dedicated advocate for open knowledge and accomplished hacker, who was facing a potential 30+ year jail term and over a million dollars in fines for liberating JSTOR scientific research papers from behind a pay wall, took his … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Patents
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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
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Privacy
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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
Posted in Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Privacy
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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
Posted in Copyright, Freedom of Speech, Organizing
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Conference Slides Decks Posted
Thanks to everyone who attended our conference, especially the speakers and volunteers. A number of speakers gave permission for us to post the slides of their talks (pdf): Kopimism by Lauren Pespisa Stranger Danger by Conor Sherman Patents Upending by … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Freedom of Speech, Out And About, Patents, Privacy
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Conference Movie Festival Moved to May 12th, Jared Ball to Speak
Due to an unexpected scheduling conflict, we will have to end our March 10th conference at 6pm. As such, we will not be able to show the open/public domain movies we had planned, unfortunately. We will still have a showing of Your … Continue reading
Mass. Pirate Party Condemns Shutdown of Megaupload
Despite overwhelming, worldwide public opposition to the current trends in ever-tightening and ever more intrusive copyright laws and copyright enforcement, the Department of Justice has seized and shutdown Megaupload, a popular online service that is not based in the United … Continue reading
Posted in Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Speech
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SOPA & PIPA: The Internet Goes On Strike, Pirates Join
[From the Florida Pirate Party, but it includes our sentiments as well since this site will go black on the 18th.] On January 18, many websites will voluntarily go on strike [1] to demonstrate against the threat of the Stop … Continue reading
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Tell the House: Don’t Censor the Net!
The House of Representatives will start considering changes to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) on Thursday.and may vote to approve it soon after. Like the Senate bills, PIPA and CSFA, SOPA would create a variety of ways for corporations … Continue reading
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