May 2012
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On being critical of bigots, and their racist...
Hate mongers, bigots, homophobes, transphobes, racists — this goes out to you: Y U no liek people different from you? Seriously, chill the fuck out.
This week, I tweeted about the arrest of known hater, Aaron Walker. Walker runs an “everyone draw Mohammed” blog, an Islamophobic project/campaign which now appears to be private. This was intended as an offshoot of the wider,...
April 2012
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UPDATE: FCC Comment period for #opBART ends today
There are some interesting developments lately in regard to the cell-shutoff by BART. Today the California Public Utility Commission issued a comment defending their regulatory authority. Read their comment here: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6017032811
Our take:
from CPUC’s filing, it looks like they’re trying to (over)protect their state regulatory authority, and...
February 2012
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Profits over People: the Trans Pacific Partnership
As Julian Assange’s final appeal of extradition proceeds today, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on the lessons of Wikileaks. Wikileaks and its supporters have been relentlessly harassed - both through the legal system, but more often by the abusive exercise of raw power. Their alleged ‘crime’? Attempting to bring to light the conspiracies and deceptions that underly...
January 2012
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Digital Sit-ins: DDOS is legitimate civil...
Distributed denial of service (DDOS) is a favorite tactic of Anonymous. While the media likes to call DDOS a form of ‘hacking’, this is at best a technical misunderstanding. DDOS does no permanent damage and doesn’t involve breaking into servers or stealing data. Rather, it simply overwhelms a server with UDP traffic - the online equivalent of fans at a football game yelling so...
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Bright, and Clear: The Future of Free Speech
Bright, and Clear: The Future of Free Speech
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A rallying cry on the occassion of the Web’s first mass blackout
As we watch the web go dark today in protest against the SOPA/PIPA censorship bills, let’s take a moment and reflect on why this fight is so important. We may have learned that free speech is what makes America great, or...
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On Indefinite detention
Indefinite detention is wrong, and ignores history. Mike Scala rightly puts it into context for us.
“Codifying indefinite detention (NDAA) likewise offends the principles of our Constitution. I find the justification that constitutional rights are narrower in wartime personally offensive. For one, we’ve been “at war” our whole lives. If we’re going that route, let’s at least require Congress to...
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Team America: Exporting terror in the name of...
Update: The last marine involved in the Haditha killings goes on trial this week. The rest of the marines involved had their charges dropped or were acquitted.
“War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.” - Unknown
For far too long the world has quietly digested the twisted rhetoric coming from the White House. The US military is...
December 2011
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Why am I here?
On December 10th, 2010 I decided to do something — to become active, and in that vein, to become an activist. After reading the WikiLeak cables that were available at the time, I felt it was important to join the discussion online in contempt of corrupt government actions worldwide and the extrajudicial prejudice and pressure by the US on financial institutions to take action against...