So the United States FCC has released its plans to eradicate Net Neutrality in the United States, on Thanksgiving, as it said it would….
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Corruption
How did the free sharing of scientific knowledge and culture become the worst crime our justice systems could think of?
Sci-Hub is starting to get judgments and censorship applied against it. It’s noteworthy that not even murder or genocide is considered cause for such…
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Why does Britain want to put the public in prison for fact-checking claims in the mainstream media?
British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced a fifteen-year prison sentence for watching terrorist propaganda, whatever that means this week. There is an exception…
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With the World Wide Web Consortium captured by the copyright industry, who will step up to lead web development next?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which used to develop standards for the Web, has been captured by the copyright industry. In a doubly…
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The six worst hypocrisies of the copyright industry in the last decade
The copyright industry keeps pounding a simplistic message to legislators – that copyright law is simple and that nobody honest could ever break it,…
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Switzerland proposes net censorship to protect domestic gambling against competition
In a surprise move, Switzerland has a bill passing through parliament that would introduce net censorship to protect domestic gambling against foreign competition. This…
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Is it reasonable for a private industry to demand governmental censorship power over general communications?
The copyright industry is trying – again – to forcefully conscript Internet Service Providers into doing their bidding. This time, the RIAA and other…
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How to talk to your non-tech friends about Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality is being discussed again, and it’s important that your friends understand why this concept is crucial. Instead of explaining it in typical…
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How the copyright industry works methodically to erode your civil liberties and human rights
In a previous column, I outlined how the copyright monopoly is fundamentally, irreparably incompatible with privacy at the conceptual level. While the copyright industry…
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The entire modern copyright was built on one fundamental assumption that the Internet has reversed
When the copyright monopoly was reinstated in 1710, the justification was that of publishing being many orders of magnitude more expensive than authoring, and…
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