February 2012
19 posts
“ALEC’s priorities for the 2011 session included bills to privatize education,...”
– ALEC Exposed | The Nation
“The indiscriminate release caused unease among some members of Anonymous, with a...”
– Anonymous splinter group AntiSec wages war on ‘profiteering gluttons’ | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“Google, the time has finally come. You need to make a pro-privacy offering to...”
– Google Circumvents Safari Privacy Protections - This is Why We Need Do Not Track | Electronic Frontier Foundation
“We’re told that if the U.S. ends up in a war with Iran, then “the U.S. Navy’s...”
– U.S. media takes the lead on Iran
“The infuriating thing about this tragedy is that it was completely unnecessary....”
– https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/opinion/krugman-the-austerity-debacle.html?_r=1
Cory Doctorow: On Little And Big Brother
MP: You said that you left the US because you didn't want to have to regularly subject yourself to biometrics...But in the UK there's even more surveillance.
CD: Oh, yeah. You can't escape it anywhere. It's a race to the bottom all around the world right now. Canada, Germany, the US, and the UK, as well as the rest of the EU, are basically locked in a race to see who can implement 1984 the fastest. The US -- obviously now you've got indefinite detention for American citizens on US soil. In Canada we're on the verge of getting this lawful intercept bill that's as bad as anything anywhere else in the world. In the UK we have the Digital Economy Act and widespread biometrics. In Germany the police just got caught deploying what they've called the 0zapftis Trojan, the government trojan where when people cross the borders and they examine their laptops they covertly put spyware on their computers so they can watch them after the fact. I mean really, at every turn there's somebody doing this, so it doesn't matter where you live. It really doesn't at this point. That's one of the things that I've really come to realize, the fight is global.
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Graeber vs Hedges on the Black Bloc
Me: This is an ongoing dialog between Chris Hedges and David Graeber over Hedges' use of inflamatory language calling out the Black Bloc in the Occupy Wall Street movement as "a cancerous tumor"
Hedges: http://www.truth-out.org/black-bloc-cancer-occupy/1328541484
Graeber: http://nplusonemag.com/concerning-the-violent-peace-police
“plurality of the public (41%) believes young adults, rather than middle-aged or...”
– http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/02/09/young-underemployed-and-optimistic/?src=tumblr
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“Few individuals outside advertising know about the power of the new media-...”
– A Guide to the digital advertising industry thats watching your every Click
