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Isy :)

Viewpoints: Sites go offline in US piracy laws protest - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-16604990

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shared by Isy :) on 21 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Isy :) on 21 Jan 12
     
    Article showing which websites are protesting against SOPA and what their founders' opinions are on the bill
Fiche Galinha

SOPA: Google, Facebook and Twitter May Go Offline in Protest | Techland | TIME.com - 3 views

techland.time.com/...witter-went-offline-in-protest

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shared by Fiche Galinha on 05 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • SOPA: What if Google, Facebook and Twitter Went Offline in Protest?
  • Fiche Galinha on 05 Jan 12
     
    If the proposed blackout were to occur, a greater awareness and understanding could be achieved. This would likely garner more support against SOPA, as websites like Facebook, Google and Twitter are used by millions of people worldwide, most of these people being casual internet users who have no idea what SOPA really is, meaning some would attempt to educate themselves on the subject and try to do something about it. The potential increase in support could lead to more people demanding big companies to 'drop' their support by threatning to boycott said comapnies products/services. As mentioned in an article bookmarked by Tranny Franny (http://www.slashgear.com/sony-and-nintendo-drop-sopa-support-amid-anonymous-threats-03205579), Sony and Nintendo appear to have dropped their suppor after being threatned by Anonymous. Although what Anonymous threatned to do was wrong, it certainly go the point across to both companies meaning a boycott from customers worldwide could change other companies minds on whether or not to support SOPA
  • Tranny Franny on 06 Jan 12
     
    Although that seems like a good way to reach a wider audience in order for them to understand the severity of how SOPA would affect the internet, it could be seen as quite unethical. These casual internet users could only use websites such as Facebook to get an quick update, so these could be people who would be indifferent after knowing the affect of SOPA. Why should these people be prevented to access a website they use simply because the website feels the need to make a statement. And in terms of big companies dropping their support, is it really correct for them to drop their support? why did they support it in the first place? If they believe that this act should be made official is it correct for them to "drop" their support simply because too many people are going against it? So they would be "changing sides" out of fear, rather than due to their opinion, which in a way goes agaisnt the point of voting or supporting somethis such as SOPA
Morten Nielsen

Internet copyright law signed - The Irish Times - Wed, Feb 29, 2012 - 0 views

www.irishtimes.com/...breaking53.html

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shared by Morten Nielsen on 01 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Minister of State for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock said the statutory instrument was necessary “to ensure compliance with our obligations under EU law
  • Any remedy would also have to respect the rights of an ISP’s customers to protection of personal data and freedom to receive and impart information, he said.
  • SPs and rights holders would now be “stuck in court battles while the policymaking process decides the rule of the game”, Mr Ryan said.
The Zhan

YouTube - Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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shared by The Zhan on 15 Nov 10 - Cached
  • The Zhan on 15 Nov 10
     
    To what extent does media and governments distort information that is presented to the general audience, taking into consideration the concealing of an extremely sensitive piece of information such as this?\n\nWhat degree of obscurantism does the US army's "don't ask, don't tell" policy imply? How much misunderstanding can it provoke?\n\nHow reliable is the information provided to us by Wikileaks?
Tranny Franny

Collateral Murder: WikiLeaks video from US helicopter gunship reveals glimpse of slaugh... - 1 views

www.sott.net/...impse-of-slaughterfest-in-Iraq

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  • Tranny Franny on 15 Nov 10
     
    Wikileaks on Monday released a 17-minute video of footage from an Apache helicopter that was reportedly one of two helicopters involved in a fight against insurgents in the neighborhood of New Baghdad on July 12, 2007.
Fiche Galinha

BBC News - WikiLeaks posts video of 'US military killings' in Iraq - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8603938.stm

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shared by Fiche Galinha on 15 Nov 10 - Cached
  • WikiLeaks posts video of 'US military killings' in Iraq
  • Fiche Galinha on 15 Nov 10
     
    "WikiLeaks posts video of 'US military killings' in Iraq"
El Mexicano Pastiche

WikiLeaks drops 90 thousand classified military documents - 3 views

www.wired.com/...ers-pakistan-as-insurgent-ally

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shared by El Mexicano Pastiche on 14 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • El Mexicano Pastiche on 14 Nov 10
     
    ... How?!
  • Mr Brooke on 17 Nov 10
     
    From a combination of anonymous sources and leaks. Each one varies depending on the nature of material being "leaked"
The Zhan

Obama Turns Down Rumors On Afghanistan, Blasts WikiLeaks - 1 views

obama.net/n-afghanistan-blasts-wikileaks

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shared by The Zhan on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The President of the United States of America Barack Obama is expressing some of his unfavorable opinions on a website claiming to have secret information about American government policies that are kept from the masses.
  • Tuesday, Obama clearly stated that he is highly “concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information” having to do with the goals and policies of the United States in Afghanistan by WikiLeaks
  • according to Obama as well as anyone who has taken a look at the claims, there is very little new information being represented on the site.
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  • “While I’m concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don’t reveal any issues that haven’t already informed our public debate on Afghanistan.
  • In addition, the alleged secret information being leaked by site such as WikiLeaks is information that has already been made public to the men and women of the United States to read about at their discretion.
The Zhan

WikiLeaks, a Ramayan tale - 1 views

www.livemint.com/...WikiLeaks-a-Ramayan-tale.html

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shared by The Zhan on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The traditional way of gathering news and reporting a story by finding out facts, interpreting them, asking others for corroboration, and organizing the story in a coherent way so that it would make sense and provide context to someone coming across the issue for the first time, were considered quaint
  • n the West, several newspapers had shrunk in size, literally, adopting the Berliner format, as The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal’s international editions did.
  • t was in that environment that WikiLeaks published the omnibus data dump of 92,000 pages of intelligence material about the war in Afghanistan, leaked from the US defence establishment. Finally the middleman was busted: Who needed reporters, those irrelevant intermediaries?
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  • WikiLeaks realized that the mountain of data was meaningless unless someone sifted through the data dispassionately to find out if there was a grand narrative.
  • Raw data alone is often inscrutable, and in the hands of conspiracy nuts, it is worse than useless.
  • Text without context is just words.
  • That explains why WikiLeaks turned to The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.
  • WikiLeaks’s decontextualized data dump has created the illusion of advancing our understanding of the war, when it has done no such thing. It has made the coalition’s informants vulnerable— responsible reporters would not have made such an elementary error.
  • The Zhan on 22 Nov 10
     
    An article referring to the extreme decontextualisation and reliability issues of sources presented in WikiLeaks.
The Zhan

"Collateral Murder" | a look inside - 0 views

blog.ajmartinez.com/...wikileaks-collateral-murder

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shared by The Zhan on 26 Nov 10 - Cached
  • The Zhan on 26 Nov 10
     
    counter-argument for collateral murder video. allegation of biasing and editing of the video footage.
The Zhan

NGO brands WikiLeaks whistleblowing unreliable - 2 views

www.swisster.ch/...whistleblowing-unreliable.html

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shared by The Zhan on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • the Swiss branch of Transparency International, an NGO campaigning for more openness and better governance, claims the site is not reliabl
  • "I know other platforms for transparency use it a lot . . . but it’s not based on fact," Anne Schwöbel, director of Transparency International Switzerland told Swisster. "WikiLeaks is not enough for us – we need other sources," said Schwöbel.
  • The Sunshine Press sees its site as a public tool to advance transparency beyond existing freedom of information legislation.
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  • Government officials, corporate whistleblowers and journalists seeking anonymity can upload documents that sit in a queue waiting for a team of professional journalists and anti-corruption analysts to decide whether they should be published. Schwöbel said she could not find out enough about selection criteria used by the editoral board of powerful decision makers.
  • The Zhan on 19 Nov 10
     
    Campaigning group Transparency International Switzerland claims WikiLeaks is not reliable.
El Mexicano Pastiche

WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ileaks-says-funding-is-blocked

1.4_Intellectual_Property 1.1_reliability_integrity wikileaks 2.6_pol_gov

shared by El Mexicano Pastiche on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • El Mexicano Pastiche on 19 Nov 10
     
    Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.
El Mexicano Pastiche

Pentagon demands WikiLeaks stuff genie back in bottle - 0 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...wiki_pentagon

2.6_pol_gov 1.4_Intellectual_Property 1.1_reliability_integrity wikileaks

shared by El Mexicano Pastiche on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • El Mexicano Pastiche on 19 Nov 10
     
    "Obnoxious Pentagon spokesperson issues formal threat against WikiLeaks: Destroy everything, or else." The US Defense Department has formally asked WikiLeaks to delete all copies of military documents it has received and return any documents not yet published. Founder Julian Assange has rejected offer
El Mexicano Pastiche

Wikileaks finds cash to continue - 0 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...wikileaks_pledge_drive

2.6_pol_gov wikileaks 1.1_reliability_integrity 1.3_privacy_anonymity 1.4_Intellectual_Property

shared by El Mexicano Pastiche on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • El Mexicano Pastiche on 19 Nov 10
     
    Wikileaks began life in December 2006 with a promise to publish leaked sensitive government or corporate documents, after verifying their authenticity. It promises to protect the anonymity of its contributors. At the bottom of the article there is some information about Sarah Palin's hacked Yahoo account and other documents released by wikileaks.
The Zhan

Are the WikiLeaks War Docs Overhyped Old News? | Danger Room | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...ks-war-docs-overhyped-old-news

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shared by The Zhan on 17 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Longtime Afghanistan watchers are diving into Wikileaks’ huge trove of unearthed U.S. military reports about the war.
  • For one thing — and this supports Exum’s argument — many, if not most, of these documents are frontline reports.
  • That both clarifies the focus of individual reports and limits the degree to which any analyst can responsibly extrapolate them into clear trends.
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  • And some of the heavy-breathing accounts surrounding the documents don’t really match what the logs say. “Taliban sympathisers listening in to top-secret phone calls of US-led coalition,” pants the Guardian.
  • here’s a bias in journalism toward believing that what’s secret is inherently a hive of hidden truth. That operating principle animates reporters’ practice of breaking down governmental secrecy. But it can also create a misleading expectation that leaks represent huge new revelations.
  • Whether they add up to more than the sum of their parts is a judgment.
  • The Zhan on 17 Nov 10
     
    There's a bias in journalism toward believing that what's secret is inherently a hive of hidden truth,which can create a misleading expectation that leaks represent huge new revelations. When these don't manifest, it creates an expectation that the trove is neither useful nor significant. In this case, that would be a mistake.
The Zhan

Freedom of information vital for promoting cultural diversity - 1 views

www.un.org/...story.asp

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shared by The Zhan on 13 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • “Free speech and media freedom are an inseparable part of the United Nations’ mission for peace, human development and a better world,” Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Kiyo Akasaka told a global seminar on linguistic diversity, globalization and development in Alexandria, Egypt, on Sunday.
  • “But around the world, we see Governments and those who wield power use many different ways to obstruct it. The Internet and digital media are becoming a new battleground for information.”
  • He cited the impressive pace of innovation and growth in new information and communications technologies (ICTs): by the end of 2010, there will be an estimated 5.3 billion mobile cell phone users; access to mobile networks is now available to 90 per cent of the world population and 80 per cent of people living in rural areas. Moreover, the total number of text messages sent globally has tripled in the past three years, from 1.8 trillion to a staggering 6.1 trillion, that is 200,000 text messages sent every second, and the number of Internet users has doubled between 2005 and 2010, when it will surpass the 2 billion mark, of which 1.2 billion will be in developing countries.
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  • But the digital divide remains, he warned, with 71 per cent of the population of developed countries online, compared to only 21 per cent in developing countries, and by the end of this year, Internet users in Africa will reach 9.6 per cent, far behind the world average of 30 per cent. For millions of people in poorer countries, downloading a high-quality movie can take one-and-a-half days compared to five minutes somewhere else.
  • All this increased connectivity and the role media and institutions can play in protecting and promoting cultural and linguistic diversity and ensuring its use for the greater good require two elements, Mr. Akasaka stressed.
  • “First, is the need to find ways to provide information to all people,” he said. “And second, is the need to ensure that the information that is conveyed – the substance – is diverse, pluralistic, and tolerant. Member States, the private sector, UNESCO and the United Nations are all working to bring information and communication assets and services to communities around the world.
  • The Zhan on 13 Dec 10
     
    Statements of a UN official stressing the importance of the freedom of information for globalisation.
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