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Anonymous allies with RedHack and crashes state website in protest of cheating claims. News from Turkish cybersphere

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Anonymous crashes state website in protest of cheating claims from Hurriyet Daily News Cyber-activist group Anonymous hacked Turkey?s Student Selection and Placement. Prosecutor demands RedHack be declared ?terrorist? organization from Hurriyet Daily News A prosecutor’s office running an investigation into the RedHack . 2 million Turks on porn websites every minute: report from Hurriyet Daily … Read more

“Declaration of Internet Freedom, “Google’s Copyright Transparency Report and more… A cyberculture roundup…

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Declaration of Internet Freedom by Cory Doctorow I’ve signed the Declaration of Internet Freedom, a short, to-to-point manifesto for a free and open Internet. It’s attracted some very august signatories, including Amnesty International, Hackers and Founders, Global Voices, Mozilla, the NY Tech Meetup, Personal Democracy, Fight for the Future, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, Neil Gaiman, … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation

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The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation from EFF.org Updates by parker New legislation in the Netherlands makes it the first country in Europe to establish a legal framework supporting net neutrality. In addition to the net neutrality provisions, the law contains language that restricts when ISPs can wiretap their users, and limits the circumstances under … Read more

Turkish cybersphere roundup: More hacking activities while Turkish officials continue to attack internet…(news in Turkish & English)

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Turkish cyber activists hack into milk firm websites over poisoning fiasco from Hurriyet Daily News Turkish cyber activist group RedHack hacked… Internet slows intellectual development in children, Turkish official says from Hurriyet Daily News Excessive Internet use harms the intellectual development of children, according to Professor Necdet Ünüvar, the head of the Parliamentary Commission on … Read more

How Turkish Internet authorities counter RedHack cyber-attack? Shutdown the net…

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I could not verify yet but it seems that against RedHack group’s attack Turkish Internet authorities shut down a major ISP, TTNET, and we remained without connection for hours last night… Anonymous Joins Marxist RedHack Group against Turkey Internet Censors Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/332422/20120424/anonymous-join-marxist-redhack-group-against-turkey.htm#ixzz1tK3sM4mr A news in Turkish confirms this speculation…

Cyberculture roundup: Pirate Bay servers going airborne; ?Anonymous-OS?; and more…

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Europe: Will ACTA Treaty Pass After Protests? from Global Voices Online by Danielle Martineau [All links forward to French articles unless stated otherwise.] As of the end of the month of February 2012, the mobilization efforts of Internet users against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) [en] were still going strong. In fact, they may have … Read more

hell yeah, blogging seems to back;) a cyberculture roundup..

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Erkan’s Field Diary has a growth in visit numbers recently. It maybe due to this fact or my personal attempts but in any case blogging seems to be back: After Blogging Died It?s Booming Again? from Daily Blog Tips by Daniel Scocco If you have been following the news about new media and blogging you … Read more

Turkey one of the “Countries under surveillance” in Reporters Without Borders’ annual list of “enemies of the internet”. Turkish cybersphere news in Turkish and in English

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Anonymous Ve Anonimlik Vurgusu Anonymous yazı dizimize kaldığımız yerden devam ediyoruz. Konuğumuz Sosyal Kafa TV programından tanıdığımız Erkan Saka sosyalsosyal.com için bir yazdı; ‘Enemies of the internet’ named from BBC News | Europe | World Edition Belarus and Bahrain join Reporters Without Borders’ annual list of the countries with the most repressive policies against cyber-dissidents. … Read more

for the record, LulzSec frontman Sabu was probably an informant.. more on LulzSec crackdown and a cyberculture roundup…

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LulzSec frontman Sabu was FBI informant, fed Stratfor docs to Wikileaks from an FBI-owned computer by Xeni Jardin The Guardian has more on the big hacking news which Fox News broke yesterday (as noted in a post by Rob). “Sabu,” the trash-talking, self-appointed leader of LulzSec, has been working for the FBI for the last … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: WikiLeaks Partners With Anonymous (GIF); Mobile World Congress 2012….

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Pew Survey Finds Over 60% of Social Network Users Have Deleted a Friend from Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project & American Life found that most people choose restricted privacy settings. Over half of social network users (52% to 60% depending on demographic) keep their … Read more

Sarkozy seems to have meddled with Twitter, too… A cyberculture roundup

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Twitter answers accusations of censorship for closing French anti-Sarkozy accounts from The Next Web by Anna Heim Did you know that the French President Nicolas Sarkozy had opened a Twitter account? Its opponents certainly do, as several parody and critical accounts have been suspended by Twitter over the last days, generatingaccusations of censorship. FCC: Cybersecurity … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Verisign hacked; Online Piracy Doesn?t Hurt Hollywood; Pinterest news…

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?Occupy Valentine?s Day? Tumblr Protests the Romantic Industrial Complex from Mashable! by Christine Erickson   VeriSign, pillar of Internet security, hacked from Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder VeriSign Inc., the company responsible for assuring that more than half the world?s websites are authentic, was hacked multiple times in 2010, and the thieves succeeded in stealing … Read more

Digital Activism 101; Jailbreaking; Pinterest and Web Design; Hackers vs. Symantec/Oakland officials/Haditha docs/Syrian president; and more…

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How Pinterest Is Changing Website Design Forever from Mashable! by Sarah Kessler Digital Activism 101: The 5 Activist Functions of Technology from The Meta-Activism Project by Mary C Joyce Digital Activism 101 is a series of posts introducing key concepts to students and activists. ???? From the revolutionaries of the Arab Spring and Occupy Movements … Read more

In the mean time, Anonymous takes on the offensive against FBI

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Anonymous Unleashes Coordinated Attack Against Governments, Law Enforcement from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Anonymous is on the move. The hacker group has claimed credit for coordinated attacks and leaks against the U.S. government and international law enforcement agencies Friday. According to Twitter accounts associated with the group of ?hacktivists,? more activity can be expected throughout … Read more