Countering Propaganda Pending Global Treaty Threatens Free Internet, Fundamental Rights

(SteveWatson) – Over 90 academics, practitioners and public interest organizations from six continents have collectively warned that a secretive global treaty, currently being negotiated by governments of the world’s largest economies would see tight controls placed on the internet and would threaten other fundamental rights and freedoms.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has received fleeting public attention, yet it has been quietly evolving for a number of years.

On it’s face ACTA is described as a countermeasure directed at the rise of counterfeit goods, medicines and pirated copyright protected material, including “piracy over the Internet”. ....Read full article

Countering Propaganda Orwellian DoubleThink: Rights are Privileges

{ActivistPost) – Rights are Privileges (Freedom is Slavery): The primary duty of all public officials is to protect the rights of citizens as defined in the Constitution, where they shall not make or enforce any laws that violate those rights. In fact, the “checks and balances” were put in place to assure that rights of citizens are not being trampled by one branch of the government. After 9-11, President Bush and other public officials proclaimed that their most important job was protecting the safety of the American people, which basically put an end to our rights coming first."....Read full article

Friday’s filter announcement – full steam ahead | EFA

Friday's announcement by Minister Stephen Conroy that the filter would be put on the back burner pending a review seems like good news. In the sense that Australians' net connections will remain uncensored by the Government in 2011, this is indeed something to be pleased about. The filter remains very much alive, though, and the promised review is unlikely to make much differenc...More

Friday’s filter announcement – full steam ahead EFA

The internet's freedom-fighter, Julian Assange

The internet's freedom-fighter, Julian Assange

He's been stalked by the CIA, enraged the Pentagon, blown the whistle on trigger-happy American soldiers in Iraq and exposed the Australian government's secret online pornography blacklist. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is the pre-eminent sleuth of the digital age. Read More