Cyberculture roundup: CISPA Passes Committee but ACLU, White House Pan CISPA’s Return…

CISPA Passes Committee, Advances to House Vote from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai   ACLU, White House Pan CISPA’s Return from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm   Obama’s regressive record makes Nixon look like Che from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Redditor Federal Reservations has made a handy post enumerating all the regressive, authoritarian, corporatist … Read more

A report: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011

  The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011 from Berkman Center Newsfeed by syoung The Berkman Center is pleased to share a new report from the OpenNet Initiative (ONI): West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011 The report analyzes the use of American and Canadian-made tools … Read more

Politically motivated surveillance in US, ACLU reports..

ACLU: America is riddled with politically motivated surveillance from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A new ACLU report, “Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity,” documents recent cases of politically motivated surveillance across America — cases in which people were put under surveillance “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their … Read more