British lawmakers have announced 15 years in prison for taking part of banned literature. However, the threat of prison only covers new story formats…
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Reminder: In government training material, “terrorism” includes peacefully disagreeing with administration policy in public
Governments are still using “terrorism” as a scareword to get any insane law passed – like Britain’s digital book-burning law. But with its other…
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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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Why shouldn’t copyright monopoly law apply on the Internet?
Every so often, you hear copyright industry lobbyists ask “why copyright law shouldn’t apply on the Internet”, suggesting that the Internet is a lawless…
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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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Call to Action: Write to the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee on the upcoming copyright vote
On October 10, an important committee in the European Parliament will vote on future copyright law. It hangs in the balance, and ordinary people…
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Your phone can now be turned into an ultrasound sonar tracker against you and others
New research shows how a mobile phone can be turned into a passive indoor ultrasound sonar, locating people with high precision indoors using multi-target…
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Right on the Money: Bitcoin hits $3,000, or 1000x my entry point six years ago
In 2011, I went all-in into bitcoin. As I described in a blog post at the time, I took all my savings and my…
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Why politicians don’t, and can’t, understand the Internet
Politicians do not understand the Internet. It is not so much that the politicians in power today in their 60s weren’t born with it,…
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Danish ISPs stop providing copyright industry with subscriber identities
Denmark’s ISPs are collectively putting their foot down and will no longer surrender identifying subscriber information to the copyright industry’s lawyer armies. This follows…
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