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Joho the Blog » McCain models tech policy on our oh-so-successful energy policy - 0 views

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  • THE MCCAIN NEGATIVE WORDCLOUDWords Not in McCain’s Tech Policy | blog |social network | collaboration | hyperlink | democracy | google | wikipedia | open access | open source | standards | gnu | linux | | BitTorrent | anonymity | facebook | wiki | free speech | games | comcast | media concentration | media | lolcats |
  • Even if we ignore the cultural, social, and democratic aspects of the Net, even if we consider the Net to be nothing but a way to move content to “consumers” (his word), McCain still gets it wrong. There’s nothing in his policy about encouraging the free flow of ideas. Instead, when McCain thinks about ideas, he thinks about how to increase the walls around them by cracking down on “pirates” and ensuring ” fair rewards to intellectual property” (which, technically speaking, I think isn’t even English). Ideas and culture are, to John McCain, business commodities. He totally misses the dramatic and startling success of the Web in generating new value via open access to ideas and cultural products. The two candidates’ visions of the Internet could not be clearer. We can have a national LAN designed first and foremost to benefit business, and delivered to passive consumers for whom the Net is a type of cable TV. Or, we can have an Internet that is of the people, by the people, for the people. Is it going to be our Internet or theirs?
  • “Senator McCain’s technology plan doesn’t put Americans first—it is a rehash of tax breaks and giveaways to the big corporations and their lobbyists who advise the McCain campaign. This plan won’t do enough for hardworking Americans who are still waiting for competitive and affordable broadband service at their homes and businesses. It won’t do enough to ensure a free and open Internet that guarantees freedom of speech. It won’t do anything to ensure that we use technology to bring transparency to government and free Washington from the grip of lobbyists and special interests. Senator McCain’s plan would continue George Bush’s neglect of this critical sector and relegate America’s communications infrastructure to second-class status. That’s not acceptable,” said William Kennard, Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission.
feng37

IGP Blog :: The U.S. Congress and "free speech principles on the Internet" [cough] [Ano... - 0 views

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  • Commerce has since 1997 repeatedly refused to incorporate freedom of expression as a principle guiding the ICANN regime, despite numerous calls for it to do so in public comment sessions. The earliest of these calls came in 1997, during the drafting of the Green Paper leading to ICANN's creation, when the principles guiding the regime were first being formulated. EFF, the Domain Name Rights Coalition and many individuals asked that free expression be written into ICANN's constitution. The most recent reiteration of this call came in 2006, from the Internet Governance Project during a review of ICANN’s status. In each case, Commerce has either ignored or in some cases explicitly rebuffed these calls for recognition of free speech as a part of ICANN’s mandate.
isaac Mao

China should free dissident Hu Jia - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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Hujia 胡佳 HumanRights

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  • Apparently we missed that page of the international rule book. We do recall Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, though. That's the portion of the United Nations' seminal 1948 document that states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
  • If Chinese leaders are tired of all the international attention being given to Hu, there's a better solution than high dudgeon from the Foreign Ministry: They could set him free.
isaac Mao

Loki Network Project - 0 views

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GFW VPN

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  • Loki Network Project is free VPN service and SSL based free VPN server. It is an opportunity to protect your private data (IP address, e-mail/FTP/HTTP passwords, web-sites visited, uploaded/downloaded files and etc...) and bypass certain Internet access limitations you may have at your location.
  • isaac Mao on 19 Feb 09
     
    Loki Network Project
feng37

China Digital Times » Yan Lieshan (鄢烈山): The Liberalization of News and the F... - 0 views

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  • When China joined the WTO, there was also an implicit attempt to use “opening-up” to accelerate “reform.” The saying “there is no way back for an arrow when the string is drawn” is particularly true today when the world is filled with goods “made in China.” It is impossible to allow the free flow of commodities but not information when China takes part in the division of labor in globalization. It is equally impossible to allow the free flow of only the “positive” information. There is no such bargain under heaven. The information age has descended upon us. New media like the Internet and cell phones are still developing rapidly. It will cost more and more to control the dissemination of news and will eventually become impossible.
feng37

Global Voices Online » Turkey: Bloggers Banning Themselves? - 0 views

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  • If you are a long-time follower of the Turkish blogosphere you will have undoubtedly heard about the Turkish ban on Wordpress….and the periodic bans on YouTube, and on the social-networking widget site Slide, oh..and now on Dailymotion as well.
  • It is hard to keep track now-a-days and frustrating. Turkish bloggers feel the same way too, and are protesting the constant banning of sites by voluntarily banning their own. So how are Turkish bloggers protesting these periodic bans on the internet? By putting the following up on their website: Bu siteye erişim kendi kararıyla engellenmiştir which translates roughly into “This site is blocked by [the author's] own choice”.
isaac Mao

Internet Helps Liberate, Create Music in China : NPR Music - 0 views

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  • When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.
  • isaac Mao on 26 Jun 08
     
    Internet Helps Liberate, Create Music in China By Laura Sydell Listen Now [7 min 48 sec] add to playlist Chinese electronic musician B6 B6, a Shanghai-based electronic musician, explored Western music first on pirated CDs and then at music-sharing sites on the Web. Now he collaborates online with other performers. B6's studio equipment -- a jumble of keyboards, etc. Enlarge B6 works out of a home studio in a Shanghai high-rise. Above, some of his musical arsenal. Discover China's Indie Music Neocha Web site image Neocha.com With Sean Leow, B6 co-founded the music-sharing site Neocha.com, an ad-supported service that lets listeners discover music and pays musicians a share of advertising revenue. * Neocha.com * Neocha's "Next" Player Morning Edition, June 25, 2008 - Second in a three-part series. When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. It's more open today, but the Communist government still bans anything that mentions sex or violence, or that has "low class humor" - which bans an awful lot of American music. So the music most likely to come pouring out of the radio in China is syrupy ballads usually produced in Hong Kong or Taiwan. But Chinese musicians and fans are finding a whole new universe of sound on the Internet. And it's helping to create and nourish a new generation of independent artists in China. From Black-Market Discs to Napster and Beyond One of them is B6, a 27-year-old electronic musician. He lives and works on the first floor of a high-rise on the outskirts of Shanghai. He's part of China's burgeoning electronic-music scene. Growing up, the CDs B6 listened to were mostly sold on the black market. "When I was in high school, I used to listen to rock 'n' roll music," he says. "At that time, it was very difficult to get foreign or Western music." And then, in 1999, the Internet came to China - and B6 and his fr
evawoo

Chinese Dismayed by Tales of Tibet Violence - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    shi zhao

    民主是个老乌龟 - 0 views

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    • 我看到很多人写自己和西方同事争辩，“让XX哑口无言”，自己完胜。不是这样的，你居高临下的先做结论再教育人家，没有人能够和你说话。如果我们不去了解别人的前提，而一味坚持自己的结论，那完全没有可能沟通 。 Without the definition of truth, evil is seductive. 我希望身在西方的大家，多和西方人沟通，多倾听，少愤怒。不然，认为我们“被恶魔控制了”的西方，和相信“敌人亡我之心不死”的我们，真的只能到战场上去了解西方了。
    • 民主不相信圣人，哪怕尧舜都可能腐败，所以权力要制衡。
    • 这场大游行中，每一个人都在为自己的义愤和信仰呐喊。但我看到，双方，谁也没有说服对方。所谓哪一方“取得了伟大胜利”，那是让人伤感的自欺欺人。
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    • 我们中国人，有千年的皇权社会的熏陶，又成长在无神论的独裁专政中，我们表现出来的人性，和他们表现出来的人性，在日常生活中都很类似，然而到了信仰和政治的时候，交叉点就很少了。这个时候，我们照平常的思路，和我们固有的信息，得出他们“看不起我们”，“没安好心”的结论，也是相当正常的。
    • 所以那么穷的藏人，为什么要独立；我们给了那么多钱的藏人，为什么要独立；我们给了大订单的法国，为什么要闹腾-- 这些都是让中国人很困惑的
    • 绝大多数西方人会觉得人权与自由是个non-negotiable，因为“天赋人权”，不是我该不该有，而是你决不可夺的问题。
    • 人权也不是吃饭权，所以那些“中国不合适民主自由因为很多人刚能吃饭”的论点，在很多西方人的眼里也就匪夷所思。
    • 权力的最高段，不是要拳打脚踢让你服从，而是你自觉自愿地服从了，你还帮那个权力去制服不服从的。Self- censorship，是集权下的人民最悲哀的体会。“不能说，这不要说了吧”，这样的话，我们从小到大，听过多少？而没有什么可信的，什么都要重新去验证，这样的社会成本，是无形而巨大的。全民撒谎的代价，我们终有一天要付出。
    • 有一个支持藏人的队伍走过，路边举五星红旗的喊“你们懂什么西藏？！”队伍里的一个人就回答“今天你不为藏人说话，明天就没有人为你说话！”
    • 鸟巢巨蛋大裤衩，工程做的大又快，这不能就证明独裁是好的。世界历史上很多伟大的建筑，都是独裁者留下来的。因为只有独裁者可以倾一国之力，想干啥就干啥。
    • 一个国富民穷的国家，不能算一个强国，更不能证明自己的制度是好的。
    • 也只有在民主国家，大家才可以昨天同意今天抗议，不断地修改自己的错误。这一次的拥中游行也证明了，只有一个民主国家才允许你支持一个独裁政府。反过来，你试试？
    • 对内，它教会了人民撒谎。因为没有什么长久的东西让我们相信，那么只要撒谎不被抓到就可以了
    • 民主，就是不要高效率。只有这样我们才能不让独裁发生。因为高效率了，我们就容易更相信一个比大家更聪明的决策人，久而久之，决策就都高效率地由他做了。因为高效率了，我们就容易忽视弱小的声音，就容易发生多数人的暴政。
    • 独裁的可怕，在于对外，他有可能为了转移国内的矛盾而发动战争。现代历史上，民主国家之间从未彼此宣战。而一个强大的独裁国家，如果它赢得了战争，那么所有的民主国家又要回到独裁，所有重新来过。这是很可怕的。所以，西方民主国家对独裁的天然憎恨和恐惧，也是为什么他们天天指责我们要我们变化的原因。明白了这一点，很多对抗就可以解释了。
    • 这个世界没有人希望中国乱，大家都希望中国做一个负责任的大国。中美间的关系，好比连体的两座townhouse，合用一个墙壁—你如果打孩子打老婆，人家就会管。但人家管你打孩子打老婆，不是因为他想烧掉你的房子，烧掉自己的墙壁。
    • 在目前的政治压迫下，谁都没有人权，要喊也得先是free china，您再free 西藏。
    • blt-fqx on 11 Apr 08
       
      很中肯，整篇都是！
    isaac Mao

    Giant database plan 'Orwellian' - 0 views

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    gfw

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    • Proposals for a central database of all mobile phone and internet traffic have been condemned as "Orwellian".
    • But the Lib Dems slammed the idea as "incompatible with a free country", while the Tories called on the government to justify its plans.
    • "Ministers claim the database will only be used in terrorist cases, but there is now a long list of cases, from the arrest of Walter Wolfgang for heckling at a Labour conference to the freezing of Icelandic assets, where anti-terrorism law has been used for purposes for which it was not intended."
    isaac Mao

    北京西客站的大钟倒着走！ - 0 views

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    春运 车票 执政

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    • 　　 只有朝向买票者的钟出了“故障”，而且出在这么敏感的时间，这是在舒缓我们的焦急情绪,还是在忽悠着没有手机和手表的农民工们玩，而延迟放票的那十分钟到底发生了什么，对于站在寒风中的我们而言也许永远只是个迷。
    • 　　 号召愿意起早的北京记者，从明天早上起去拍西客站大钟！也许你自己已经和一些方面打好了招呼甚至一票在手归家不愁，但是为了那些曾经和你同一JIECENG的平民，请你去体验排队之艰！
    feng37

    Valentine's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    • In Saudi Arabia in 2008, religious police banned the sale of all Valentine's Day items, telling shop workers to remove any red items, as the day is considered an un-Islamic holiday. This ban created a black market of roses and wrapping paper.[36]
    feng37

    Digital Resistance and the Orange Revolution « iRevolution - 0 views

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    • Maidan was a group of tech-savvy pro-democracy activists who used the Internet as a tool to support their movement. Maidan in Ukranian means public square and Maidan’s website features the slogal “You CAN chnage the world you live in. And you can do it now. In Ukraine.”
      • feng37
        feng37 on 19 Feb 09
         
        买单？
    • The main activity of Maidan was election monitoring and networking with other pro-democracy organizations around Eastern Europe.
    • “websites cannot produce an activist organization.”
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    • it was crucial for Maidan to frequently host real world meetings as their membership base increased. The human element was particularly important. This explains why Maidan encouraged users to disclose their identity whenever possible.
    • The community benefited from centralized leadership that developed the organization’s culture, controlled its assets and provided the strategy to achieve desired goals. The Maidan experience thus demonstrates a hybrid organization.
    • Pora, meaning “It’s Time” in Ukranian, was a well-organized group of  pro-democracy volunteers that “emerged as an information sharing campaign and during the elections morphed into coordinators of mass protest centered around tent cities in towns throughout Ukraine. The grassroots movement took its inspiration from Serbia’s Otpor movements as well as “older civic movements in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.”
    • “the active use of modern communication systems in the campaign’s management,” and “mobile phones played an important role for mobile fleet of activists.”
    • “a ssytem of immedate dissemination of information by SMS was put in place and proved important.” In addition, “some groups provided the phones themselves, while others provided SIM cards, and most provided airtime.”
    • roviding rapid reporting in a way that no other medium could. As tent cities across the Ukraine became the sign of the revolution,
    • The news feed from the regions [became] vitally important. Every 10 to 15 minutes another tent city appeared in some town or other, and the fact was soon reported on the air.
    • While the government certainly saw the Internet as a threat, the government had not come to consensus regarding the “legal and political frameworks it would use to silence journalists that published openly on this new medium.”
    • many online journalists unlike mainstream journalists were free from the threat of defamation charges.
    • one of the earliest examples of what Steven Mann calls “sousveillance,” meaning, “the monitoring of authority figures by grassroots groups, using the technologies and techniques of surveillance.”
    • Technology certainly does not make possible a direct democracy, where everyone can participate in a decision, nor representative democracy where decision makers are elected; nor is it really a one-person-one-vote referendum style democracy. Instead it is a consultative process known as ‘rough consensus and running code.’
    • the real power of traditional media. Natalia Dmytruk worked for the Ukraine’s state-run television news program as an interpreter of sign language for the hearing-impaired. As the revolution picked up momentum, she decided she couldn’t lie anymore and broke from the script with the following message: I am addressing everybody who is deaf in the Ukraine. Our president is Victor Yushchenko. Do not trust the results of the central election committee. They are all lies. . . . And I am very ashamed to translate such lies to you. Maybe you will see me again…
    • “Dmytruk’s live silent signal helped spread the news, and more people began spilling into the streets to contest the vote.”
    • itizen journalists and digital activists participated in civil resistance trainings across the country, courtesy of Otpor. The use of humor and puns directed at the regime is a classic civil resistance tactic.
    • one of key reasons that explains the success of the revolution has to do with the fact that “the protesters were very well trained and very good at protesting… very, very good.”
    • Digital activists need to acquire the tactical and strategic know-how developed over decades of civil resistance movements. Otherwise, tactical victories by digital activists may never translate into overall strategic victory for a civil resistance movement.
    isaac Mao

    我为什么毒杀了小区的狗 - 0 views

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    人居 人性 城市 文明 狗 社区

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    • 然后我先去找附近派出所的朋友咨询了一下, 毒狗是什么行为, 构不构成犯罪, 那哥们很坦率的告诉我,毒狗只能算是破坏他们财物的行为,即使被当场发现, 在所里也不过是个协调解决纠纷的事情, 但公安还没有这么多闲情功夫去管这些事情, 尤其是我先和他打过招呼后,他说以后万一有人报案, 他知道该怎么处理了.
    isaac Mao

    免费VPN服务提供商 | 绚志 Splendone - 0 views

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    GFW

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    • Hotspot Shield 进入http://www.hotspotshield.com/downloads/，点击页面右侧的Download按钮下载软件 安装后运行会打开 http://www.hotspotshield.com/launch/ 页面 点击“Run Hotspot Shield”，Hotspot Shield就会自动搜索VPN服务器，并连接。 Always VPN 进入http://alwaysvpn.com/，点击页面上方的Download按钮下载软件，选择你的操作系统，Always VPN支持Windows XP/Vista, Linux, MAc OS X 安装后运行Always VPN就会自动搜索并连接可用的VPN服务器。
    number5

    勾结北京工商向网店收费的"名索"公司黑幕重重，大家一起来818！ - 0 views

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    北京工商 名索 官商勾结 网店收费

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    • 首先，名索网的工商企业信息查询并非真的免费。从目前名索网的有关信息来看，每年收费500元提供的是一种“名索验证”服务，也就是一种电子认证服务，而普通的工商企业信息查询时则免费。事实上并非如此，在互联网上就有一种名为“企业工商信息查询名索一卡通”（以下简称“名索一卡通”）的卡类商品。按照“名索一卡通”的介绍，“名索网基本收费模式：查询每项3元，打印一次5元。”只有按照名索网固定的网页格式打印出来的格式文本才会得到北京市司法部门的认可。这样一来，免费所得到的信息在各种场合不具有法律效力，要想在司法领域中使用名索网中检索得到的工商企业信息就必须交费，所谓的免费查询工商企业信息是无稽之谈。
    • 企业工商登记查询应属于政府部门的公共服务一种，在社会生活的方方面面都会用到。比如在对于合作企业的合法性、法院立案、对方企业的实力的判断上，都需要查询企业的工商登记资料。北京市工商行政管理局的有关负责人曾经表示，“我们就是要利用强大的网络系统打造一面企业虚假信息照妖镜，让那些花样百出、四处行骗的虚假企业无处遁形，为保护人民的财产安全贡献力量。”的确，将企业工商登记数据库搬到网上，可以让社会公众方便地查询，有效防止各种诈骗行为。但是名索网的做法，完全变了味，是在打着方便公众之名行“收费”之实。与此相类似的，包括国家知识产权局的专利数据库、国家工商管理总局商标局的商标数据库却都是免费提供给社会公众查询。
    • 在此我奉劝你们一句，乖乖交钱，就让你们继续开店，要是不交，城破之日，玉石俱焚！
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    • 1。工商局提供如果是有偿向名索网提供信息，涉嫌出卖政府信息，因为工商局是纳税人供养的政府机构。　　　　2。工商局提供如果是无偿向名索网提供信息，涉嫌私下勾结，帮助私人公司以政府信息牟利。
    • 名索 = 以工商局之 名索 取民脂民膏
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