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Oh yes. I don't think they have zero rupee notes or an equivalent in the USA. At least in Europe we sure could use a € 0,- note. Just look at how Greece is being extorted by the international financial sector.

Actually, my response would be that drinking large quantities of perfectly pure water is not very good for you and can even be dangerous. It strips away essential minerals from your body.

McAfee, Norton, Oracle (that damn Ask toolbar), HP Support Assistant, Razer mice, Skype.

Heck, it seems most Windows software has a "malware" buisness model these days.

Every install Java? Forget to tell it you don't want that browser bar? Much as I hate to say it, installing superfluous software is mainstream.

Got any evidence that Bonjour is phoning home or spying? If not, I'd remove that tinfoil hat, as it seems to be concentrating the mind control rays.

... close all the hardware stores. And confiscate all the garden tools

Which behavior? Um, both Comcast and Verizon throttling Netflix unless Netflix paid a bribe, i mean, extra fee? And Verizon even kept right on throttling after being paid said 'bribe'.

I already paid Verizon to give me access to the internet (up AND down) at set speeds, they don't get to then charge the content provider that I have specifically requested content from another fee.

If there were any competition, people who were having their Netflix traffic throttled would switch to another ISP, but there aren't any other ISPs for most consumers.

I've often wondered how much astroturfing goes on at Slashdot.

Certain news stories come up, and people make the most twisted arguments imaginable to deflect, downplay, or show shades of grey. Sometimes it's from long-term users with varied post histories - are these well-crafted astroturfers, carefully building up a false history to deflect suspicion?

My last remembered example was the one about home solar installations: The panels give unused power to the grid during the day, and the users take power from the grid at night.

The home-solar owner is using the grid as offline storage and not paying for it... and that's not fair.

This is straight from Robert Cialdini's book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion(*). "I'd like to get solar panels for my house, but oh! if I'm being unfair, then the answer's obvious! I can't be unfair now... can I?"

It's a well-crafted argument that halts rational thought by activating an automatic response on the part of the reader... by presenting a point of view that's not particularly obvious, and not something that is actually important to the issue.

(Consider: Do you really care about being unfair to the huge corporate energy conglomerate? And do you think that they would be fair to you in return? And looking forward 50 years, is the world populated by distributed home solar installations *better* than the world relying on monolithic energy production? And if so, won't "being unfair" now help to bring that about?)

This is only one example, I've noticed many sketchy arguments presented here - the Uber controversy seems to be particularly inflated.

We know that big corporate interests will astroturf politicians and regulators by faking letters of support &c (viz: the outpouring of support of the Comcast/TimeWarner merger).

We're a nexus (probably the biggest one) of smart people on the internet. Are there teams of astroturfers trying to shape public opinion?

Has anyone else noticed any particularly suspicious arguments?

(*) Chapter 3, "Commitment and Consistency"

Astounding that you didn't know about this. If they had been Muslims, it would have been world news.
And, I win.
I correct myself: I am ABSOLUTELY astounded how little coverage this gets. ASTOUNDED. And this is me we're talking about.

http://www.christianpost.com/n...
http://www.azcentral.com/story...
http://boingboing.net/2015/03/...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
http://www.charismanews.com/us...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Politicians care about 70 year old and their problems because they show up at the polls at twice the rate of 35 year olds.

That's not true, and I can prove it here and now. You know WHO the Obama admin cares the most about? Hollywood. Why? Because Hollywood gives him the WHAT he cares most about: Free branding. And I say "free" lightly because it's very powerful branding that's worth a lot, even though it's given away for free.

Do you know what prompted Obama to skip the Senate (as required by the Constitution) when he signed ACTA? This did:

https://ustr.gov/sites/default...

And let's not forget this:

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/...

Anyways what were you saying...oh yeah, old poeple. Well no, Obama cares much more about the branding provided by Hollywood. And since they provide it to him free of charge, it doesn't count towards that money in politics that he rants against, because after all, nobody spent a red cent on that branding, just the actors donate their time.

Remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or this?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...

Yeah, politicians, such as Obama, prioritize branding more than votes.

Seriously - people aren't as fragile as TFA surmises. In the spelunking world, cavers have discovered that after a few weeks without a day/night reference, their circadian cycles stretched out to a 24/24 cycle. In the case of a newly-minted Martian, it won't go that extreme, which means that at least within the timeframe of an exploratory journey, it would be no big deal, and they can adjust between the two on the way there and back (there's plenty of time on the journey to do that.)

Long term is a bit more difficult to predict, but only in how it affects the body overall. It would certainly adjust and stay adjusted, but I can guess (with no evidence either way) that the effect would be no different than Daylight Savings Time cycles would have on the typical adult here on Earth.

So, let's boot up a Muslim AI.

Now, it's got to pray 5x a day. Does it get beheaded because its NTP server is out of sync? (And that looses it's terror slightly when you can simply attach it back again -- that is if it even has one.)
Is it apostasy if you swap out a ROM?
Does it get one shrink-wrapped virgin with 72 interchangeable parts, or 72 "no user serviceable parts inside"?
Is it a sin if you don't agree to their EULA?
What is this guy going to think about all of this?

And as long as I'm !PC here: "AIs running around with a reason to discriminate, hate, and kill folks that believe differently than they do." Sounds like ISIL absorbed some Apple/Microsoft/Google fanboys. Just think -- ACTUAL Flamewars! And just wait for the rabid liberal/conservative bots: we need to get this running first: XKCD virus aquarium vs an real-life one.


Yes, I know, it's nothing at all to joke about. But I'm an atheist living in the bible belt -- I've been scared for decades and these local people don't want to kill me, just convert me ... if they don't ignore me to start with. ISIL wants to kill us both -- tEofEimF. And if I don't make jokes about it, I'd be a blithering idiot (... hmph, maybe it's not helping much after all.)

a relevant funny

Let's also insist on total accountability for where our representatives get their money from while we're at it. /snrk

Remember Apple and Carl Sagan? When Carl Sagan had a problem with abuse of his name in a product Apple, in protest at the silliness of the "IP laws" used the internal name insulting him and made a sound like "Sosume".

1. Carl Sagan was an INTERNAL Project CODE NAME for the PowerMac 7100. The whole lawsuit thing was beneath the personage of Dr. Sagan, but he DID sue (twice!) and lost (twice!).

2. Sosumi's name had NOTHING to do with Carl Sagan, or ANY filed lawsuit. THIS is the REAL STORY. 3. The Sound "Sosumi" did NOT sound like "So sue me". It sounded like THIS.

4. It is "Sosumi" NOT "Sosume".

Here's a current example from Montana.

If you want to show your fake nipple in Montana, do it before HB 365 gets passed, or you could face a $500 fine and 6 months in the county jail. It could have been worse. The original bill called for "life imprisonment" for a third offense.

That's right. Life in jail for showing fake nipples three times. Of course they backed off on it, but the fact that this was even considered shows how corrupt the law has become.

A few points:

The markup made the 3rd offense only punishable by up to 5 years in jail, along with a fine; thus saving some poor criminal the ignominy of, when asked by other lifers what they're in for, saying "wearing spandex in public three times..."

The sponsor seemed to be more upset over people wearing spandex and speedos, and stated that wearing beige spandex could be considered public indecency. He was upset over some bikers who rode nude through his town and this was his response.

The bill was tabled by the judiciary committee so it's pretty much dead; which is normal for much of the wing nut inspired legislation that gets brought up in state legislatures. if you think Congress is a clown show wait to you see a state legislature in action. Wing nut legislators introduce all kinds of wacky bills either out of their own beliefs or in response to wing nut voters in their district. It gets introduced, the legislator gives a floor speech to an empty chamber, and the bill dies quietly in committee and perhaps gets a few lines in the local news or nationally on a slow day.

He's a petty thief The police are violating the constitution, and completely ignoring the rule of law. For all intents and purposes the cops are the judge, jury and executioner, with a badge and gun.

The police were able to avoid a trial, which is one of the major ways that the legal system has been subverted. The penalties are so draconian that even innocent people plead guilty, because if they don't they will be held forever.

Here's a current example from Montana.

If you want to show your fake nipple in Montana, do it before HB 365 gets passed, or you could face a $500 fine and 6 months in the county jail. It could have been worse. The original bill called for "life imprisonment" for a third offense.

That's right. Life in jail for showing fake nipples three times. Of course they backed off on it, but the fact that this was even considered shows how corrupt the law has become.

> To be fair, these people make good money going that through very specific crowd on Patreon. It's their business model.
> That is why they are called "professional victims".

Wow. Way to flip the narrative.
Sarkessian funded her research on video games via kickstarter. That does not maker her a victim any more than it does any other academic earning a living doing research.

Meanwhile professional victimizers earn ad revenue on youtube and run crowdfunding for their gamergate vendetta videos on patreon.

I kept returning to the UN pledge to build a drug-free world. There was one fact, above all others, that I kept placing next to it in my mind. It is a fact that seems at first glance both obvious and instinctively wrong. Only 10 percent of drug users have a problem with their substance. Some 90 percent of people who use a drug—the overwhelming majority—are not harmed by it. This figure comes not from a pro-legalization group, but from the United Nations Office on Drug Control, the global coordinator of the drug war. Even William Bennett, the most aggressive drug czar in U.S. history, admits: “Non-addicted users still comprise the vast bulk of our drug-involved population.”

link - http://boingboing.net/2015/01/...

The invasion boards that set out to ruin lives

If this is true, how would it compare with the movie studios' usual "Hollywood Accounting" claims that films don't make back the money invested in them?

The difference between GAAP profit-and-loss and Hollywood Accounting has to do with contractual terminology. I you ever see a residuals statement you'll see that they never are structured in terms of revenue, profit and costs, they always use terms like "proceeds" and "expenses". A movie can profit on a GAAP basis but still never pay residuals (never "make money"), and on the other hand a movie can be a net loss but still be paying residuals. Wether a movie "makes money" and wether or not the director, actor and writers are getting their "back end" aren't really correlated, they're different things.

At the end of the day studios have some internal way of tracking wether or not a movie was "successful" but the economic performance of individual films is never tracked in a GAAP standard way, and that probably wouldn't be possible because of how producers and distribution companies share resources between films, how films are packaged... One of the reasons I'm skeptical of this factoid is because it probably comes from the top line of someone's residuals statement, and the fact is that residuals statements don't tell you if movies make money, they just tell you if your contract is paying yet.

The "Hollywood Accounting" meme is sorta true but it's also more than a little bit of propaganda from a few disgruntled screenwriters and their lawyers.

There's a neighborhood "liveability" metric called the Popsicle Test: can a kid get to a store on her own, buy a popsicle, and get home again before it melts?

Today, unlike before WWII, most residential neighborhoods in the USA probably won't pass this liveability test. What's worse is we simply aren't allowed to build neighborhoods like that anymore because small neighborhood corner stores violate single-use zoning laws, and because we've decided that moving auto traffic quickly is more important than pedestrian safety. (In fact, they removed roadside trees because motorists kept hitting them. Now motorists hit pedestrians instead. How's that for progress?) So we've legislated our own independence away.

"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."

Who had something to gain?

Those who wish to impose further regulations and control upon the Internet. With the flurry of news surrounding all things Sony, you might have missed it, but yesterday Obama came out with this gem:

"We need more rules about how the internet should operate."

So, cui bono? The US Government, that's cui.

Have not read any documets so far.... But your post is just a rant about privacy...

Sony have not cared about privacy or morals for many years...

3 hits from a quick search......
http://boingboing.net/2005/11/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
http://arstechnica.com/uncateg... ---- This one was actually quite nice to read..

I'm just saying... If they do not care about my privacy (like the PSN leaks with data in the clear!) and my security (the drm rootkit-crap with all it's sideaffects.)
With the above 2 i can just say that i will not buy Sony any more... And when things like th is happen i actually think that they deserve it.. It's the only way a company can learn... Do X and Y will happen... before only goverments had the possibility to punish the companies... this time it's a hacker-group (no clue of the whole thing was goverment-financed)..

http://boingboing.net/2009/08/...

The texts of the laws are available...

Depends...

The world is full of secret sauces...

Not to mention their warrant canary is dead.

Finally, an easy way to cancel a comcast subscription!

http://boingboing.net/2014/07/...

http://boingboing.net/2013/05/...

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Here's some anecdotal evidence. http://boingboing.net/2014/09/...

However this is just you lying. 4mbps is not "enough" for the modern Internet.

You are quite right to put "enough" in quotes. What I don't understand is, how you can seriously accuse anyone of lying (without quotes) on a matter as subjective as this.

The minimum needs to keep rising.

Sure. And it will — when multiple providers begin competing with each other for each home. Until then, attempting to force incumbent monopolies to improve service will remain a losing proposition — they talk directly to the powers that be and, being a monopoly, aren't afraid to lose many customers.

Meanwhile, the popular anger is directed against the Koch brothers — the favorite target of fans of government's regulations.

... How Far Should We Go in 'Restoring' Ancient Monuments?

Boing Boing shared The Daily Grail's article, with a few photo(graph)s, showing "Visions of the Past - How Far Should We Go in 'Restoring' Ancient Monuments?"

I wonder if I wear a number of HIGH powered IR LED's on my hat/person, if that would blind out these officer cameras?

You mean like this?

This German exibition is showcasing bright infrared LED devices that overwhelm the CCDs in security cameras, allowing you to move through modern society in relative privacy. I used this as a gimmick in my story I, Robot -- now I want to own one!

A few news sites and tech sites have:
"Android security mystery 'fake' cellphone towers found in U.S." (28 AUG 2014)
http://www.welivesecurity.com/...
Fake, phone-attacking cell-towers are all across America (Sep 1, 2014)
http://boingboing.net/2014/09/...
"The fake "interceptor" towers force your phone to back \\down to an easy-to-break 2G connection, then goes to work"
"..the baseband firewall on the Cryptophone set off alerts showing that the phones encryption had been turned off, and that the cell tower had no name a telltale sign of a rogue base station."
Fake cell phone towers may be spying on Americans calls, texts (September 03, 2014)
http://rt.com/usa/184636-fake-...

Of course apps are also rejected because they don't meet the arbitrary standards of puritanism that Apple applies, or allow the user to purchase content that doesn't meet those standards. Such as digital comics containing male nudity.

Don't forget about the hawaiian girl who invented the taco-copter shutting down the Boston airport that year too.

It is still kind of hard to get a sense of what this project is. To be honest, I didn't even fully get it until I'd managed to get it installed and play with it a little. This is my understanding of the project, someone who is more closely involved can probably correct any errors I might be making here.

MediaGoblin is a backend system for hosting "media". Part of the big idea is that "media" potentially includes any kind of thing you want to host. It's first incarnation was really just for photos/still images (like piwigo or gallery), but now also handles video, audio, "raw" images, PDF, .stl 3d models, Ascii Art, and apparently blog-style HTML text. I'm not sure if it's planned, but I'd expect it to also end up with support for .svg graphics, additional document formats (.odf, etc) and various others as interest develops. I, personally, would love to see .epub support.

MediaGoblin's main purpose is to take uploaded media and catalog it, tag it, generate "thumbnail"images, and perform any additional processing needed (such as producing legally-free format media for streaming and/or download - this IS a GNU-affiliated project after all.) It also handles authentication, access control, generation of the HTML for the pages that present the media, and so on. It is NOT (really) the frontend - they assume you have your own webserver. (There is a minimal python web-server script included can be used but it's not really intended for more than basic testing.

There is currently a focus on developing federation, meaning people can run their own individual hosts with their own login accounts, but be able to use and share media between different hosts without needing separate accounts on all of them. This will make it easy to spread out the hosting and mirroring of media across different servers in different places, which will be useful for load-spreading (like bittorrent) and for "censorship-resistance". (For a large organization with a worldwide spread of MediaGoblin instances, it could be like a Streisand-effect amplifier...)

The buzzword version of the description goes something like this: it's a unified (because this one system handles more or less all types of "content"), decentralized (because multiple independent servers can allow data-sharing and authentication with each other to prevent loss of one server from stopping access to media), federated (that's the buzzword for "one server can be told to trust another server's authentication" thing) system for hosting any "content" (or "media" if you prefer) that you want.

The short version is that it does the same sort of thing as flickr(/piwigo/gallery/picasa...), youtube(/vimeo, etc), soundcloud(/jamendo etc), wordpress, and various others, but it does it all in one interface in a way that the owners have control over so that (for example) some buttnugget can't shut off your video by just telling Google that the sound of birds in the background of your video is pirated music.

It'll currently mostly be of interest to people who are capable of operating their own servers rather than "end-users", though it seems obvious that the expectation is that people will end up using this system to set up hosting for said "end-users", whether for the general public or for use by members of some organization or other. I could imagine a university using it for inter-departmental or inter-campus media sharing and hosting, or an activist organization setting up federated instances in several countries for storing and sharing media, or a commercial start-up basing a multi-media Jamendo-style hosting company on the platform, for example.

My personal opinion: in its current state it's still too difficult install to be worthwhile for, say, a photo-gallery site (piwigo was a much simpler install on my existing webserver), but I don't know of anything similar for hosting video, audio,

Corporations are people, too!.
More privileged people.

relevant source: http://boingboing.net/2014/08/...

Some companies skirt this rule simply by paying "hourly" employees a salary above $23,600 (per FLSA) then work them 80+ hours a week and call it good. More and more employees, regardless of actual job duties are being paid a salary so they are then "exempt" from any overtime pay, even those that would traditionally qualify under the FLSA & I see this more and more often in the IT sector. If you look at the Computer Employee Exemption - you can make pretty much any IT job fit the bill if you phrase it correctly.

Workers are left with little recourse because:

• They've been exempt at every job they've ever had, so they no know different
• Many - even some of the learned ones - do not know how the FLSA applies to them in this situation
• Everyone around them is expected to work overtime w/out compensation, so it's not unusual.
• Regardless of what job duties they will be doing up to and, frankly, especially those including "non-exempt" duties they are told by management that they are doing "exempt" duties
• They have little real recourse, even if they know they are "non-exempt", unless other co-workers join them in a complaint. Co-workers who are unlikely to do so as:
  • There is little perceived gain and significant risk
  • It is expensive to the point of being cost-prohibitive in order to make a successful claim
  • Any employee who were to be successful would likely find repercussions pertaining to employ-ability later down the road. While not legal to do so above the board, it happens nevertheless (just look at all the wage-fixing and collusion in the valley - you actually think they'll hire someone again, or promote them over a co-worker who didn't sue?)

At the end of the day, LinkedIn is far from an anomaly, it is standard business practice - unless there is a top to bottom review by some third party (I don't know if there is even an entity that would be suited for this sort of endeavor), this practice will continue unabated. We will work more and continue to be paid less than what we earn.

Except there are good arguments to suggest the TSA does a pretty poor job of catching weapons, and in truth, you are safe thanks to the fact that very few people out there are set on killing you on a plane.

Not to forget Norway ... http://boingboing.net/2014/07/...

The other problem is that all this development seems like an insane urban-planning clusterf*ck...

You mean, like no proper sewer system? That would be one of the clusterfucks that Dubai seems to ignore. I guess as long as cheap Indian labour comes in and cleans up their shit, they are happy to ignore it...

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

In 2013 it was reported that the Jebel Ali plant receive 70% of sewage through the city's sewage network, while the remaining 30% comes from sewage trucks.

So, at top of Wikipedia it seems like it was fixed, but reading closer, 30% from sewage trucks. So not fixed at all!

Obvious logic and several news like this one. http://boingboing.net/2008/02/...

You might very well be mistaken. XXX is intrinsic to the coat of arms of Amsterdam. Obviously this fine demo comes from a developer working for the city government, you insensitive clod!

There are several explanations why this is so, with fire, flood, pestilence being the prevalent theory.
http://boingboing.net/2006/04/...

That is exactly my point. I hate to use the build-in video player in FF (and the build-in Pdf viewer is horrible, too).

I like the built-in pdf viewer, not because I think its better than adobe native pdf viewer but because I don't have to install yet another closed source plugin, for which I don't know how much access it has to my system. It comes shipped with firefox as default, and I can view most pdfs with it. When I want to fill a form I have the time to click on the download button and do it on Okular.
Right now the pdf.js team is heavily optimizing the viewer, so the bad situation perhaps improves.

And the built-in video player is a huge simplification both for website creators and for browser owners. They don't have to find a swf file which plays my video, or buy any Adobe swf editor, they just simply place a <video> tag on the website. And for the built-in player you have a right-click menu, where you can get the URL of the video, if you want to download it. The video becomes a native citizen of the web, as it deserves to be.

Also I want the advantages of a computer: that I can save the video and watch again later. Why should I degrade my computer to a TV (streaming only)? I know that Netflix and Hollywood wants to kill the computer model, I don't need Mozilla to help them with that.

I also want these advantages, and I want a computer that obeys me and not some content provider that wants to enforce an outdated business model.
But does your addon also make DRMed flash vids downloadable? If no, then nothing has been lost, except that perhaps DRM can be made easier.
I also don't want DRM, but I think when it helps websites to get away from flash I can bear it to exist for the next couple years. In the long term, hollywood will realize that DRM is completely useless, and they have lost the war. At least I hope so.

We are only at the beginning of the war on general computation. We will one day build machines that will be better than us, and we will have to determine who controls those machines.

Let's suppose this is the case, (and ignoring your rather hostile response) do you think the president would have signed ACTA if there was no money putting pressure towards it, especially given that SOPA was killed only a short time before?

There is no dancing around that one: This president is as corrupt as anybody else. Just weeks before SOPA was signed, Chris Dodd was going around making threats to politicians who weren't going to be tough on enacting the laws that "Hollywood" was demanding:

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/...

Lo and behold, 4 days after that article was written, ACTA was signed. That is proof positive that money CAN buy presidential action.

Easy but regulated by federal law.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
http://www.themirt.com/
http://boingboing.net/2006/04/...
http://www.advancedtraffic.com...

There are several standards in use - ~10Hz, ~12Hz, and ~15KHz

Well it's an inverse relationship. The government, and by that I mean congress and the president, does have certain control and influence of USPS. And inversely, the MPAA/RIAA does have certain control and influence over congress and especially the president.

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg are all Jewish supporters of Obama who as C.S Lewis referred to as the classic do-gooders like we have come to expect from most left-wing liberals who want to rid the world of guns...upsized sodas and oil including the Keystone pipeline and a free internet. We also know that a very Jewish and post hippy Hollywood descriminated against Conservative Script writers for over 30 years. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion... What marks out the tyranny of the way these people operate is that which marks the left of politics and liberal donors. http://www.politico.com/story/... "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C.S. Lewis" But essentialy these attacks on the freedom of the internet are about money and the operations of lobbyists, where....essentially Hollywood is behind the reforms to give away the last controls of the internet including the hire of the lobbyist Robert Holleyman. http://boingboing.net/2014/04/... After a public outcry this decision to give away the last controls of the internet looks to be on hold but now the FCC is stepping in and destroying a free internet after failing to take control of newsrooms. They now are talking about a censorship fast lane. http://act.boldprogressives.or... This after the FCC failed to put monitors and censors in every news room. http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014... Americans need to realise how militant the left is and how influential these Liberal donors are. If they supported the giving away of the internet so that they could attack piracy behind the scenes then they likewise support attacks on a free internet and create the tools to enliven political censorship with the Obama administration working behind the scenes to attack opponents. These FCC reforms are part of this...moving into this direction. We see how the Obama administration has used the federal beauracracy to attack opponents. Who is to say that this new FCC proposal for a fast lane will not use information supply with deals behind the scenes to do the same and attack political opponents. Obama is always meeting behind closed doors with the media or Silicon Valley giants. It will happen and it is a disgrace as Google has already proved itself to be left in politics. They are all do-gooder tyrants where we would be better off under robber barons. What is Google and Facebook getting out of this new FCC proposal? What we know for sure is that the left wing silicon valley giants cannot be trusted along with the FCC. They will use the do-gooder justifications to fight against piracy to take away a free internet and you can take that to the bank. Read the quote from C.S Lewis again. If Hollywood can have this much clout....discriminate against conservative scriptwriters for so long and work together with Obama to take away a free internet then all should be concerned. This is an activity of so called do-gooders that believe they have the authority to strip all of us of our internet freedoms. We all need to stand up to these secular liberals and secular Jewish do-gooders that have too much political clout in America.

This no doubt puts the oversight of the internet out of the hands of Congress into the hands of intelligence agencies. This is a real concern because they will be filtering the information. It will also give the feds access to all our personal information wheras Google enjoyed the monopoly on this information. This is a like act to the FCC backing off on putting monitors and censors into the newsrooms. I want to know what Google and Facebook are going to give the Obama administration in return for this arrangement? Do they have a choice with this activist administration as we know they enjoy destroying their opponents or even queationers. This is the beginning of the end of a free internet where all players are dragged into the fast lane and filters are put in place that will protect Hollywood and large corporations. Will it also protect them against auditing by governments around the world for evading paying taxes? http://boingboing.net/2014/04/... Note this same FCC tried to put censors and monitors in all the newsrooms of America. This is the new left-wing facism where this I.T class in Silicon Valley and Hollywood is complicit in these secret meetings as was the media in these closed door meetings with Obama. I have already proved by screenshots that Google acts politically in its search engine here in Australia. Democracy and a free press and a free internet are all at risk here.

And a reminder of this:

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/...

Obama did eventually capitulate. He signed the ACTA treaty without anybody else having any say in it, because he (and Hollywood) knew full well that it would get shot down like SOPA did if the public was aware of it. The constitution requires a vote in the senate for any treaty to be ratified, but NOBODY (not even the public) was allowed to read it until Obama himself ratified it. His argument was that since our laws already comply with it, he can ratify it by himself.

There is no precedent for that as it has never been done before (given the Constitution forbids it, it makes sense too.)

Anyways, Obama HAS been purchased, and he IS a Manchurian candidate if there ever was one.