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Talking Points to Defeat Canadian DMCA
Brendon Wilson has a fantastic write-up concerning the ramifications of Bill C-61, which has been tabled in the Canadian Parliament. This a topic that I hope will be hotly contested and all Canadians are encouraged to write their MPs to present their feelings. Brendon provides a rational fact based argument against the bill, which should [...]
Fourth Amendment is Overrated at US Borders
As you may or may not know, the US customs agents have free reign over all your electronic devices - now the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Business Travel Coalition have sent an open letter to Congress to ask, basically, what the hell?
The letter comes 10 days after a [...]
U.S. funded medical site aborts “abortion” search
Score one for censorship and right-wing conspiracies - Popline, the self proclaimed world’s largest database on reproductive health has begun blocking all searches containing the word abortion. The site is run by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland with funding provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
“We recently made all [...]
Threat of US spooks haunt Google
It wasn’t too long ago that Google put it’s full attention towards cloud-computing, targeting businesses and universities to utilize Gmail and other Google Apps as their core infrastructure. Eighteen months ago, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada did just that - saving millions and months up front and hundreds of thousands in annual [...]
Prostitutes have feelings too
It’s come full circle now, sex trade workers are calling for a ban on Grand Theft Auto; citing that the GTA games are a bad influence on children, and might encourage rape and violent behavior towards prostitutes in real life. Fair enough, I suppose.
Here’s what GTA has taught me:
So I’ve got a few stars and [...]
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