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Maintaining Internet Freedom Isn't Easy (Video)
Go to Stop the Secrecy.net and you'll see that this is something that requires action now, not someday, It's about the TPP, or Trans Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement that could place major restrictions on how we use the Internet. This is far from the only attack on Internet freedom we need to fight against, just one the EFF (and others) feel is one of the worst ones in play right now. Mild-mannered Steve Anderson, founder and Executive Director of OpenMedia.ca, is today's interview guest. He's Canadian, but OpenMedia.ca doesn't stop at Canada's southern border. Steve and the rest of the group want U.S. citizens to have the same Internet freedoms they want Canadians to have -- as well as people all over the world, because Internet balkanization hurts all Internet users. Including you. And worse, this is not the only problem with the TPP. Did you notice, in the TPP link above (to Wikipedia), that parts of this trade agreement are secret? So even if you want to protest against it, you might end up holding a sign that's mostly blank. This is a "Call your Congressional representatives" situation. Unless you're in Canada, in which case it's a "Call your Member of Parliament" situation. Ditto if you're in another TPP country. In any case, it's going to take a lot of calls, letters, emails, and faxes from people like us to overcome some of the heavy money that wants the TPP to go through. (Alternate video link.)
We must force our governments to be more transparent. IMO, it should be a constitutional principle that all law must be negotiated in public. If history has tought us one thing is that secret negotiations lead to horrible results. For example, one of the most despicable treaties in history, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, was the result of such secret negotiations.
From what I can tell this article is pleading for people to protest something for some reason. Maybe the greens/anarchists/communists don't like something about free trade, not sure.
Kind of sounds like Occupy Wall Street all over again "We're really mad and won't tolerate whatever it is we're mad about any more! If we ever figure out what we're mad at we'll let you know."
I can't understand what this is actually about from reading TFA, or TFA links. What am I supposed to be angry about?
Here is a flashless version of the video made with jsfiddle and a html5 demo.
Why does beta not fix flash?
+5 no shit, sherlock
Subject says it all.
My god, you don't realize how long I've waited for
... one issue based bullshit is not going to stop this. We had SOPA and CISPA and they are preparing CISPA round 3.
The internet is something 'everyone can agree on' but unfortunately most people trying to 'protect the internet' are too historically and politically illiterate to really do so. None of you who are hardcore capitalists are "protectors" of the internet, in fact why SOPA and TPP are trying to lock it down is BECAUSE they fear the masses rising up against corporate (capitalist) powers. That's why we got governments and corporations going gangusters on surveillance worldwide.
If you doubt this check the spyfiles
https://wikileaks.org/the-spyf...
Corporate power is global, and resistance to it cannot be restricted by national boundaries. Corporations have no regard for nation-states. They assert their power to exploit the land and the people everywhere. They play worker off of worker and nation off of nation. They control the political elites in Ottawa as they do in London, Paris and Washington.
Consider the G20 Protests in Toronto
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Look at the following graphs:
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
And then...
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Free markets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-I...
"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.
In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."
Slashdot can help the internet by not having 3+ minutes of ads before giving us content on a video stream; sickening, so sickening I turned it off & never got what I came for, BYE!
Someone want to explain this with actual facts instead of scary buzz words.
Ever see "Good Will Hunting"? Best movie Matt Damon and Ben Afleck ever did.
After reading your post, I keep thinking of the long haired guy in the bar who kept trying to best Will by reciting books he read and Wil eventually told him to get an opinion of his own.
-Just say'in.
I see a lot of shit too - how "free" markets are manipulated, big money in politics, an electorate stuck in mindless jobs (coding advertising widgets and apps at Google and Facebook fall into that category too) and watching insipid TV programs for relaxation, a banking system that has run amok and a political class that has turned into an aristocracy (Really? We want another Clinton or Bush in the Whitehouse?! Or Kennedy?! How about an unknown from S. Dakota?!) and a business/CEO class that basically says "Let them eat cake!" - or - "Be lucky you are not in India!"
When I find myself getting very angry about an issue, it means I do not have all the facts. Because when I learn about the other side's view point, I soften.
I am pro-choice, but I respect and understand the pro-life folks.
I am pro-Second amendment - but yesterday, some asshole shot up a Fedex office that my wife visits often. I am quite understanding of the gun control folks.
Capitalism,.. as much as I hate it, I like to remember Richard Branson's take on it: 'It's not a perfect system, but it's the best we have so far.'
Getting angry and preachy solves nothing.
Being quiet, rational, and cunning - makes changes or keeps the status quo (see Koch brothers).
Actually the real Saddam is beginning to look a lot better than the last two assclowns we got stuck with.
I was interested in this story until I checked out the page at stopthesecrecy.net. Centering blocks of text removed any credibility bestowed by a Slashdot reference. (I know I need a made-up html tag for that last sentence...maybe "/snark"?)
Language students: Don't try to learn English here. This ain't it.
This should never have made it to /. There's nothing in the summary or TFA that explains what we're all supposed to be upset about. It looks like the forwarded emails I get from angry, elderly acquaintances who have nothing better to do all day, since retirement, except to get all outraged over perceived problems which are always just around the corner, but never seem to actually occur.
Proverbs 21:19
Everyone know thay are also negociating the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) with EU at the same time? The talks are so secret that even members of EU parliament do not know what is discussed.
They can be open all they want, you look at CSPAN its nothing more then a photo op, or simply bullshit pandering. Nothing of any substance comes from watching their oxymoron rants. But its the crap that goes on behind the scene's, I have seen so much abuse from local government claiming their 'openness'.
Has nothing to do with this story but one of the local councils approved a deal to installed additional sewage lines along homes that already had septic tanks, people wondered why they were doing this and they found out. The city called out the EPA, and the EPA inspected their tanks and deemed them to be inadequate/dilapidated, forcing them to tap in, they have to have another tank installed, with a grinder pump, a separate electrical service to the pump, and of course the line from there tank to the sewage main line, for each house, then then tried to charge the people $30,000. One resident was outraged by this, as was most of them, and found out it only cost 6,000 - 8,000 for all this to be done.
The only reason the installed the main sewage line was to force people onto the system for their own greed. And while no one can prove they called the EPA, they told residents prior to the project they wouldn't have to tap in. And the EPA never inspected the septic tanks prior or during the project, they were called afterwards on purpose. I know the states laws, fuck the local the state are what counts, and a different city I live in just installed additional sewage lines when most if not everyone has septic tanks. I wanting for them to try this bullshit out, and I have the paper work ready for a lawsuit against the city and EPA when that day comes.
And of course no else else seems to give a shit around here. And that's the overall problem!
So if I call my congressional representative, what do I say? "Hello? Um... this TPP thing... it's bad. " The reason I don't bother calling my representatives or writing to them is that I wouldn't know what to say, or how to say it in a way that I'll be taken seriously.