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transcripts of interview, (via)

Stephan Twitter account.

Seems that Obama is going for secrecy too.

The fact that Keith Olbermann, an intense Obama supporter, spent the first ten minutes of his show attacking Obama for replicating (and, in this instance, actually surpassing) some of the worst Bush/Cheney abuses of executive power and secrecy claims reflects just how extreme is the conduct of the Obama DOJ here. Just as revealingly, the top recommended Kos diary today (voted by the compulsively pro-Obama Kos readership) is one devoted to attacking Obama for his embrace of Bush/Cheney secrecy and immunity doctrines.

Ted speech on Shai Aggai’s running plan of electric cars, now.
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When The Pirate Bay was raided by police in 2006 they confiscated the site’s servers. Now one of those servers has been bought by a Swedish museum, which will display the machine as a device that has impacted people’s lives. In another development, damning CAM footage of the upcoming TPB movie has leaked showing the crew calculating their huge earnings.

Read the article: Pirate Bay Server Becomes Museum Exhibit, TPB Cam Leaked
View the video: “leaked TPB-AFK footage”

Andrew Keen: Web 2.0 Is Fucked (The Next Web 2009) from Robin Wauters on Vimeo.

In a long speech - without notes - he talked about a new age of individualism. With the end of the industrial revolution, “we”, essentially are now “the product”.

But, ironically perhaps for some observers, Keen is now a fully-fledged fan of Twitter.

In fact he called Twitter the “nail in the coffin of Web 2.0″. He said it’s “the future of individual media in the age of the individual… a future when individuals become brands. People with skills are able to sell their skills on the network. I call this real time social media.”

Read more on: Techcrunch

Op 22 april stemt het voltallige Europees parlement over deze problematiek in tweede lezing. Het debat over deze kwestie, die in vakjargon als ‘netneutraliteit‘ wordt aangeduid, begon in de Verenigde Staten. Een grote telecomprovider probeerde daar van contentaanbieders extra geld te krijgen in ruil voor de mogelijkheid het materiaal in een hogere kwaliteit aan hun klanten aan te bieden. Dat neigt naar controle en toezicht op inhoud.

Juist filteren en afknijpen van verkeer staat haaks op wat de wetgever heeft bedoeld. De voorstellen die er nu liggen houden de mogelijkheid open dat telco’s niet eens melden aan haar klanten dat er gefilterd wordt of dat verkeer wordt afgeknepen.

Artikel 7 van de Nederlandse Grondwet verbiedt duidelijk censuur bij álle media. “Er is geen voorafgaand toezicht op de inhoud van een radio- of televisie-uitzending”, zo meldt lid 2. In deze tijd kan daar ook voor gelezen worden: internetverbinding. (meer)

Hopelijk wint verstand het van louter commerciele belangen.

How does it feel to be “aggressively interrogated”? Christopher Hitchens found out for himself, submitting to a brutal waterboarding session in an effort to understand the human cost of America’s use of harsh tactics at Guantánamo and elsewhere.

Playboy.com journalist Mike Guy underwent waterboarding by a trained member of the U.S. military in the site’s new Lab Rat feature. Guy bet that he could endure 15 seconds of the interrogation technique used by the Bush administration on al Qaeda chief Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah.

Watch the results here

Not realistic enough … Dutch example here

[via Retecool]

According to Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net: “The European citizens will remember this courageous stand. Members of the European parliament honoured their mandates by standing courageously for citizens’ rights and freedoms. This is one more blow to Nicolas Sarkozy’s ‘three strikes’ or ‘HADOPI’ law in France, and a strong sign that nobody in Europe will want to pass such a stupid legislation going against progress, citizens’ rights and common sense.”.

Philippe Aigrain, also co-founder of La Quadrature du Net concludes: “We will also follow with great attention the negociations in a future conciliation committee to make impossible for the Council to endanger other aspects of the telecom packet such as equitable networking. It is time for Member States to realize that the economy and society can benefit together from an open infrastructure and a strong affirmation of rights.”. (more)

Parlement has voted rightly in favor of net neutrality.