ACTA the next problem

by | tech

So far we have fought for net nuetrality, and may or may not have won. We hit SOPA where it hurts, and PIPA is reeling. It’s alphabet soup. The latest head to pop up with this hydra is ACTA. It isn’t a US law, or a UK law. this is an international treaty,...

PIPA and SOPA votes postponed

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As a general FYI and news of the Day bump, The votes for both PIPA and SOPA have been put on hold, it doesn’t mean they are dead, and with wonderful  rhetoric  like This Gem from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), “But the day will come when the Senators who...

Abuse of Power

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Yesterday wasn’t fun for me. I lost money, and lost a lot of fun. I lost ad revenue from people coming to my tiny little corner of the internet and clicking on an ad or two. Reading a funny post or learning a thing or two. Perhaps  listening  to the podcast that...

SOPA / PIPA DNS filtering “off the table”

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You want power? You need to fight. You want to negotiate you have to ask for things you would be willing to cut to get what you really want. The biggest problems with the SOPA and PIPA legislation that everyone saw right off the bat was DNS filtering. You force sites...

Back in Black: Stop SOPA / PIPA

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We here at the CaffiNation don’t take our freedoms  lightly. And we are banding together with Boing Boing, Google and many other websites to show people what the internet means to our society. Bad legislation that gives unchecked power to not only disable sites,...