January 2012
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“SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin...”
– Twitter To Censor Tweets In Some Countries
huh thats weird because:
Saudi prince purchases $300 million stake in Twitter
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haveheartbeast-willtravel asked: Thank you for answering that question. Next one, do you think any government body would actually come forward and say that they stopped x because of a petition when they're aware that saying that might actually make more people sign things in the future? Especially when they're trying to put in legislation that will make it harder to spread petitions around the internet? I'm not...
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haveheartbeast-willtravel asked: I had asked you earlier "And okay, what would you consider proof then? Does the government body have to come directly forward and say that these petitions stopped them? Because I don’t know that they will and I’m not sure that even really happens with bills presented in just a physical format." In reference to the correlation = causation issue.
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kigurumis asked: I mean, my AP US teacher brought up an interesting point - the government has always abused and taken advantage of us, but suddenly when the internet is involved, everyone puts on their big kid underwear and wants to do something about it. I can agree with him there, but he believes that there are "more important" issues to deal with.. meanwhile, my IT teacher didn't even know SOPA,...
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cancer-man asked: SO YOU ARE AWESOME AND INCREDIBLE AND JEEEZE your arguments are so well worded, especially re: piracy and online petitions and just. Yes. Good. Keep doing this.
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kigurumis asked: Following you now. I would just like to say I enjoy everything you post and I've sent your tumblr link to my AP United States History teacher as well as my IT teacher, who both don't believe SOPA/PIPA/ACTA are big deals and that they are "overrated".
posting war
casemanxp:
does this guy arguing with 3liza have any idea of her posting-fu? she is among the shaolin of posters. posting always. posting in new and secret ways.
you cannot out-post 3liza.
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Having worked as an astro-turfer I can tell you with authority that e-mailing/writing/calling your congressional rep is literally never going to go in front of anyone who gives a shit. 99% of the time, an unpaid teenage volunteer will glance at it long enough to grab the return address and send you an auto-generated reply. The only* way something you said as an individual constituent ends...
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mitchisforlovers asked: Well that wouldn't surprise me because that would be on of the few ways to get real emails out of people. I realize you probably have a lot of people sending you stuff, but I think we are sort of lumping in the google/wiki/blackout sites in with the petition pile. Google's form was set up in a way that said your message opposing SOPA/PIPA was being sent directly to your representative....
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mitchisforlovers asked: i'm really liking the things you are saying today. Especially that DDos'ing is the internet equivalent of protesting. I think a lot of people think it's "hacking" and that's funny to me.
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“it’s co-opting by absorbing opposition, a skill that this admin has honed...”
– here is another good point about online petitions.
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DeviantArt prints program claims they paid me on January 17th and after further investigation into my actual PayPal balance sheet, they clearly did not.
Of course, if I hadn’t gone through a corporate intermediary to handle my art sales I wouldn’t be having this problem ehehehhehehe.
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Anonymous asked: I'm kind of skeptical about tor because I don't know what it is, nor have a ever heard of it. Are you sure it's safe to use?
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Scientists urge uni to axe alternative medicine...
protowilson:
PZ Meyers’ll be happy to hear this.
MORE than 400 doctors, medical researchers and scientists have formed a powerful lobby group to pressure universities to close down alternative medicine degrees.
Almost one in three Australian universities now offer courses in some form of alternative therapy or complementary medicine, including traditional Chinese herbal medicine,...
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collaterlysisters:
n8tacles:
But Copyright infrengment is still wrong, isn’t it?
Ahahahahaha, why? Why on Earth do you think this has a simple, black and white answer?
Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn’t. Usually it isn’t - certainly not when you’re looking at the cases that shape policy and have people crying bitter tears before congress. Usually the people who are screaming bloody...
“a bloo bloo bloo wont someone think of the poor corporations”
By n8tacles definition of theft, buying (or finding on the bus) a used book and reading it, or borrowing it from the library, is also theft. Just a heads up. These people exist and should be refuted and laughed at. They are the enemy.
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Ask Me About "Smashing the Patriarchy"
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It's Official: Google Is Evil Now (And Gizmodo are... →
In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users across all services—email, Search, YouTube and more—sharing information with no option to opt out. The change was announced in a blog post today, and will go into effect March 1.
By using the NoScript plugin on Gizmodo’s post about this Google policy change, you discover:
Gizmodo is running the...
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It’s time for SWEATSHOP. Tonight: the usual fucking around, but the main projects will be adjusting the Pyros from last week, and painting the previous Tentaspy and the Dragon Age piece from ages ago.
http://livestream.com/sweatshop
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People are saying it's too soon for Joe Paterno...
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