Category: Culture
Electronic Frontier Foundation – 2010 Trend Watch Update: Global Internet Censorship
Censorship and the internet, what’s up with that.
Schneier on Security – Full Body Scanners: What’s Next?
Simply and beautifully put.
Truthout – Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies and, Along With it, Reason and Justice
Arizona really is just a bundle of crazy isn’t it.
Darryl Cunningham Investigates: Climate Change
An entire comic devoted to showing what climate change is, why local events don’t prove or disprove it, why it is happening and why it is caused by humans, event tackling Climategate along the way.
Rough Type – Same shit, different medium
I love that last sentence it defines very precisely how the medium is an important factor in differences existing while the high level appears to be the same.
A Guide to the Open Internet
Just in case you need a good solid pointer to over the holiday breaks as to why Net Neutrality is important and what it really means.
Organization of American States – Joint Statement On Wikileaks
On the plus side the UN and OAS came out pretty strongly in favor of Wikileaks and support of freedom for access to information.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Wikileaks Mirror Taken Down: Host Buckles Under Demands from Upstream Provider
It’s sad when we can’t even trust companies that we pay to stick up for our rights.
PCMag.com – RIAA Misfires, Grazes PCMag.com
Apparently blaming journalists is now how the music industry will fight its battles.
TorrentFreak – Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate
Turns out she pirated 1800 songs and purchased knock off Prada bags.