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Usenet Villified In NY Deal With ISPs
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| Time Warner Cable will turn off all newsgroup access, while Sprint plans to
| cut access to the whole alt.* segment. Verizon may follow Sprint's example.
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| Blocking all newsgroups does appear to be a broad approach to a problem
| involving a minority of such groups. As with the Internet in general, not
| everything in Usenet poses a threat. But no one wants to be tainted with even
| a suggestion of being soft on child porn, hence the rush to apply censorship
| with a sweeping axe rather than a skillfully-wielded scalpel.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/06/11/usenet-villified-in-ny-deal-with-isps
Kill USENET because it might -- just might -- contain *something*. Oh
noes! "Terrorists". What's next? Torrent? P2P? HTTP? FTP? The likes of
Microsoft/MPAA/RIAA, along with ACTA and the help of bought 'governments', are
already working on it. And there's this one too (animal activists=illegal?):
EFF Sues Rodeo Group Over Removal Of Videos On YouTube
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked a federal court to protect the
| free speech rights of an animal rights group after its video critiques of
| animal treatment at rodeos were removed from YouTube because of false
| copyright claims.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/06/11/eff-sues-rodeo-group-over-removal-of-videos-on-youtube
Recent:
Caught in the ACTA
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| Politicans remain the ultimate dinosaurs in terms of openness: ideally, the
| rich and powerful would like to make their cosy deals - often aimed at that
| dangerous openness - behind closed doors.
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| [...]
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| This secret agreement, drawn up without any public discussion or oversight,
| would basically impose all of the worst aspects of US intellectual monopolies
| on everyone in sight - starting with willing stooges like the UK, and
| progressing to the unwilling but powerless.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/05/caught-in-acta.html
Related:
Animal Rights Activists Forced to Hand Over Encryption Keys
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| If you remember, this was sold to the public as essential for fighting
| terrorism. It's already being misused.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/animal_rights_a.html
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