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video: PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet
txt: PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – fightforthefuture.org/pipa
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.
links:
- Wikipedia: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
- EFF Foundation: Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back – And It’s Worse than Ever
- gigaom.com Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet
txt: Da Trento, la lettera di Rodotà a Mario Monti per affrontare lo “spread digitale”
Gentile Professore,
Non abbiamo bisogno di ricordarle l’importanza di Internet, spazio di libertà globale, strumento di organizzazione politica e sociale, sostegno indispensabile dell’economia. Lo “spread digitale” dell’Italia nei confronti dei principali paesi del mondo ha ormai raggiunto livelli insostenibili anche per la tenuta economica nazionale. Ancora più preoccupante, anche in queste ore di straordinaria apprensione per la situazione finanziaria del Paese, è il persistere di una condizione di inconsapevolezza politica e di inazione governativa nell’affrontare tale ritardo che pregiudica gravemente le nostre possibilità di crescita e di sviluppo. In particolare, l’incapacità di affrontare i problemi legati alla diffusione della banda larga è indegna di un paese che voglia restare in Europa.
video: L’INFEDELE 26/09/11 Lo spettro del default, lunedì alle 21.10
txt: Falling Walls Conference: Unique Access to Breakthrough Research
The Falling Walls conference is an annual global gathering of forward thinking individuals from 75 countries. Each year, 20 of the world’s leading scientists are invited to Berlin to present their current breakthrough research. The aim of the conference is to:
- connect science with industry, politics, media and culture
- identify trends, opportunities and solutions for global challenges
- make research understandable to a broad audience
- inspire people to break down the walls that we face todayThe initial conference was held in 2009 on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to celebrate this historic day by looking into the future and getting an understanding of the world of tomorrow.
video: Falling Walls in 100 secs
