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Cyberculture agenda: “Internet Society Statement on the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Summit

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  Internet Society Statement on the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Summit Internet Society – News Headlines Language English Date: Fri, 09/25/2015 Internet Society President and CEO Kathryn Brown issued the following statement: This week, the United Nations is hosting the Sustainable Development Summit (SDS) where the international community will embrace a global agenda to alleviate poverty, … Read more

Snowden gets two Asylum offers and a proposal… Global Heat Map of Protests in 2013

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  Venezuela, Nicaragua Offer Asylum to Snowden Edward Snowden might finally get what he’s been looking for: a safe haven to avoid facing justice in the United States. On Friday, the Presidents of both Venezuela and Nicaragua said they could offer the NSA whistleblower asylum. Ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman proposes to Snowden on Twitter NSA … Read more

Historic Win for the Pirate Party Movement in Iceland… a cyberculture roundup…

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Pirate Party Enters Iceland?s National Parliament After Historic Election Win from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Founded in 2006, the Pirate party movement has scored some big and small victories over the years. Their biggest success came in 2009 when the party won two seats at the European Parliament. During the last year this was followed by … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Insult over Twitter as criminal offense, The Court states…Stressful moments in gaming, political tech fails, big data issues… …

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Turkish court recognizes insult over Twitter as criminal offense from Hurriyet Daily News An Istanbul court has judged a Twitter user?s insult toward a Turkish model to be a criminal offense.   Russia’s #1 Netizen Heads to Trial from Global Voices Online by Kevin Rothrock Pussy Riot, eat your heart out. Later this week, on … Read more

Pirate Bay co-Founder Arrested in Cambodia… cyberculture roundup..

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Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested by Cambodian police on Thursday in Phnom Penh, the city that he made his home several years ago. According to local sources he was arrested in an apartment above the Cadillac Bar on the riverfront, a place where … Read more

Eurosphere roundup: “Germany’s Pirate Party riding high”, “Fear grows of Greek euro exit…

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The German Pirate Party’s national conference was a riot of colour and noise Germany’s Pirate Party riding high from BBC News | Europe | World Edition Germany’s Pirate Party sets sail for a role in national politics Fear grows of Greek euro exit from FT.com – World, Europe ECB council members? comments indicate risk of … Read more

Eurosphere roundup: Another Pirate Party victory, Netherlands enshrines Net Neutrality, Greek and French elections aftermath

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Good day for the Pirates from FP Passport by Joshua Keating Understandably, the very scary success of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in Greece’s parliamentary election has gotten more attention, but local elections in Germany also showed a growing presence for another once-fringe political movement:   Netherlands becomes first EU nation to enshrine Net Neutrality … Read more

Eurosphere roundup: the German Pirate Party on the rise,

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Can pirates shake up European politics? Pirate Parties On Course for Historic Election Wins from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Founded in September 2006, the German Pirate Party has already booked several successes in its relatively short existence.   German Pirate party overtakes Greens in new poll from Hurriyet Daily News Germany’s upstart Pirate Party has overtaken … Read more

Who said Wikileaks is dead? Here comes the SpyFiles- and more from the cyberworld…

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SpyFiles: Wikileaks claims $5B industry spying on mobile, webmail, GPS users, delivers interactive map showing surveillance by country by Cory Doctorow Spy Files: WikiLeaks Releases Surveillance Industry Documents by Stan Schroeder Wikileaks: Cablegate, one year on from Editors Weblog – all postings by Katherine Travers “One year ago today we put our beliefs before our … Read more

Pirate Party success in Berlin Parliament… EU finance ministers at odds in Wroc?aw…News from Eurosphere…

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Pirate Party wins 14(ish) seats in Berlin parliament from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Euroskeptics fail in Berlin by BERLIN – Hürriyet Daily News Chancellor Angela Merkel who handed her sixth election defeat this year in Berlin while her coalition partner, the Free Democrats, who favor euroskeptic tactics, failed to clear the 5 percent threshold … Read more