Wikipedia has today blacked out access to all English language pages in protest over proposed privacy and copyright acts (SOPA and PIPA) currently before the US Congress. To learn more, please visit Wikipedia's information page on the issue.
There's another threat to our internet freedoms that Canada is in fact directly involved with; ACTA, an international trade agreement. Canada has already singed it, and it's details are largely a secret. Negotiations were highly secret, th...ere was absolutely no transparency.
Explanation video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Xg_C2YmG0
Lastest copy of bill: http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/assets/pdfs/acta-crc_apr15-2011_eng.pdf
Review of ACTA by EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/2011-review-developments-acta
Good video here as well that discusses SOPA, from the Stanford Center for Internet and Soceity:
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Other sites involved in the protest action include:
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Google's US Homepage
Wordpress
Reddit
Flicker (invited users to choose to blackout their photos)
Wired Magazine
Greenpeace
Boing Boing
There's another threat to our internet freedoms that Canada is in fact directly involved with; ACTA, an international trade agreement. Canada has already singed it, and it's details are largely a secret. Negotiations were highly secret, th...ere was absolutely no transparency.
ReplyDeleteExplanation video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Xg_C2YmG0
Lastest copy of bill: http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/assets/pdfs/acta-crc_apr15-2011_eng.pdf
Review of ACTA by EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/2011-review-developments-acta
Thousands of people in the streets of Poland to protest ACTA: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16735219
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