ffs. I thought Obama was talking about vetoing this? Oh wait, he pulled the same stunt with the NDAA (National Defence Authorisation Act) and let congress pass that too.
It's interesting Laivasse - I think this was Zizek's first meeting with Assange, and he genuinley wasn't expecting the kind of responses that Assange was giving. I think Zizek's positivity towards Assange and his ideas came more as result of his surprise at what he had to say then an attempt to...
This is precisely why we need a movment to proactively create legislation protecting internet user rights instead of just reacting to every Tom, Dick and Harry the MPAA throws at Congress.
I could call the below vid the best discussion I've ever seen - well worth the 2 hours.
I'm especially fond of how he uses terrorism to describe the Actions of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange -
please see 41:23 for this section in particular.
I dunno, I've only been back for a few days... but I get the impression that someone has loosened the 'valve' a little too much with the the introduction of valvetime. It almost sounds like the (dare I say it) 'steam' has gone out of these forums. There wasn't a great purging of trolls in the...
One emotive video and 86,568,322 youtube views later, the Kony campaign has shown how powerful the internets can be to raise awareness about political issues.
My main interest in this video is the fact that it is one of the first cases in internet history that a political video has gone viral...