European high court rejects Internet traffic filtering as violation of fundamental rights

The highest court in the European Union overturned a ruling that would have forced a Belgian ISP to preemptively filter Internet traffic to prevent the unauthorized sharing of music files.


Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/european-high-court-rejects-internet-traffic-filtering-as-violation-of-fundamental-rights.ars

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women targeted seemingly for their gender screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.


Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy?CMP=twt_gu

About Pepper Spray

I was looking for a way to measure the intensity of pepper spray, the kind that police have been using on Occupy protestors including this week

L.A. Hospital Denies Liver Transplant to Medical Marijuana User Despite Prescription from Its own Do

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is refusing to grant a liver transplant to a cancer patient because he used medical marijuana, which not only is legal under California law but also was prescribed by a Cedars doctor.


Source: http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/LA_Hospital_Denies_Liver_Transplant_to_Medical_Marijuana_User_Despite_Prescription_from_Its_own_Doctor_111119

Court Says Warrantless Mobile Phone Tracking Is Unconstitutional

In an amazingly short and to the point ruling (embedded below), a judge in a district court in Southern Texas, Lynn Hughes, ruled that letting the government get mobile phone data without a warrant was unconstitutional


Source: http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20111119/00431416839/court-says-warrantless-mobile-phone-tracking-is-unconstitutional.shtml

Fetal Position is Resistance?

Fetal Position is Resistance?

UC Davis Protestors Pepper Sprayed

UC Davis Protestors Pepper Sprayed

Corruption in the Government

“Corruption is what happens when someone in power puts their own personal gain before the interests of the people they represent.  It is a result of greed.  A leader sacrifices moral integrity for the sake of money or power.  Entire nations have collapsed into chaos or revolution because their greedy politicians got caught up in a cycle of bribery and blackmail, while their people suffered.”

“Temptation is always there and citizens must be vigilant so corruption can’t take root.  The deadliest enemies of a society dwell within its borders, and from these internal threats, the people need to be protected.”

“It’s every citizen’s duty to challenge their leaders, to keep them honest and hold them accountable if their not, by exposing corrupt officials for what they are.”

“Lasting change can only come from within.”

(from Star Wars Clone Wars S03E06)

More And More People Speak Up Against SOPA | Techdirt

More And More People Speak Up Against SOPA | Techdirt
With the hearings this morning (more on that later), there were also more statements publicly made against SOPA this morning. Two key ones are, unfortunately, behind Politico's paywall, so I can't lin…

The right to assembly is being crushed; the Internet is on the verge of censorship

The right to assembly is being crushed; the Internet is on the verge of censorship; the legislative body of the most powerful nation in human history is about to declare pizza a vegetable. We are no l…
Edit: Congress HAS declared pizza a vegetable.