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LifestreamObviously the deal is outrageous. But what will ICANN do about it? Leave it as it is and risk appearing corrupt and unfit to lord over root servers and domains? It seems unlikely that they can back out of the deal now. So, will the Department of Commerce veto the deal? Because, the U.S. government [...]
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Via Boing Boing Feels like something I’ve been wanting to say for a long time. But this just did it in a much more satirical way.
The US government is apparently concerned with anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers. Concerned enough to set up a massive dog and pony show, using pretty much every clueless agency as well as computers that weren’t even connected to the Internet. Lets call it a dry run then. Apparently the US government (with other nations’ [...]
As many have feared and predicted, the temporary and unprecedented freedoms we enjoy could be coming to an end shortly. And America is leading the way of course. InfoWars has looked at some of these troubling trends.
Infowars - The Pentagon admitted that they would engage in psychological warfare and cyber attacks on ‘enemy’ Internet websites [...]
Accusations are flying over claims that Nvidia was using massive guerilla marketing. And from the looks of it, Nvidia aren’t alone either.
Boing Boing - Nvidia stands accused of hiring online actors to create dozens of personae in online forums, where they won gamers’ trust by talking about subjects unrelated to Nvidia’s products, and then splurged [...]
Perpetrated by the US government …
It turns out that Meehan and his staffers are not alone. In fact abuse of editing privileges got so bad on the Hill last fall that Wikipedia blocked some House IPs from posting.
The reason was a “deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia.”
Some were engaging in childish cyber-vandalism, [...]
With all the raves about Google caving in to China (or rather to their own principles of unlimited expansion and a force of invention), it is sobering at least that some remember that this is not the first time Google is doing this. And there are more examples like this, and not just with Google. [...]
Everyone is out to get Google these days it seems. Privacy doesn’t seem to be worth a damn in the new American century where Total Information Awareness is once again on the table.
Bloomberg - Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, was sued by the Justice Department after it refused to turn over information that [...]
A summary of not so well documented ICANN-related abuses of 2005 as well as more proof that the US is misusing its privileged position to further its own agenda. Proof that the current organization, as masterminded by the US government, is stifling liberty, free enterprise and possibly in the end free speech itself by a [...]
Not the first nation to demand censorship of the Google Earth service. The US already did it. But it’s no surprise perhaps that Israel manages to strong-arm Google.
Arutz Sheva - Google Agrees to Limit Resolution of Israel Satellite - Google, which offers satellite photos of locations across the globe, has agreed to limit the resolution [...]
