Railing against state efforts to regulate the Internet, he invoked the name of the great liberals Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville and Louis Brandeis. Doctrinal loyalty is not exactly a virtue “These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who […]
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‘Free’, ‘open’, and especially ‘transparent’ are the buzzwords that have been shaping the platform of the Pirate movement since it first took shape five years ago in Sweden as a party born out of the struggle against existing copyright laws. One of the most important founding texts of the movement was the ‘Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace’, which the former songwriter for The Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Perry Barlow, published in 1996
Posted: 2011/09/20 in Education / AwarenessBlast From The Past. ‘The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.’ – John Perry Barlow
Posted: 2011/01/24 in Education / Awarenesshttp://twitter.com/jpbarlow/status/10627544017534976 John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May 1998, he has been a […]
The Anonymous Documentary We Are Legion: The Story Of The Hacktivists Can Now Be Bought Through The “We Are Legion” Website. It Is Also On iTunes And Available For Purchase On DVD And Blu-ray
Posted: 2012/10/31 in Blocking, Copyright, Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Net Neutrality, Network Security, New Business Models, Online advertising, Organized Crime, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports“If the film makes back its costs, 10 percent of the profits will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.” Much more: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/we-are-legion-online-release/ See also: http://vrritti.com/?s=john+perry+barlow&submit=Search http://vrritti.com/?s=john+gilmore&submit=Search http://vrritti.com/?s=electronic+frontier+foundation&submit=Search http://vrritti.com/?s=loosely+knit&submit=Search Previously: So, just like the entertainment companies who struggle to make money against free, BitTorrent Inc. has to employ techniques to give away their free product, in […]
Facebook’s Richest Employees Have a Secret Rich People Fun Club
Posted: 2012/09/17 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reportsWhile the rest of America grapples with an 8 percent unemployment rate and a generally MySpace economy, the New York Times reports Facebook’s top 250 richest staffers gather to talk boats, art, and generally being unimaginably rich. Sounds fun! The Times’ claim undergirds an important aspect of Facebook’s IPO disaster: you can be insanely rich, […]
Julian Assange continues to look for solutions to the problems of privacy, online communication and freedom, with the people he believes know the answers – the Cypherpunks
Posted: 2012/06/12 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsThe movement argues against governments and powerful corporations monopolizing information, and says citizens should have a greater right to their own privacy. In this interview they rekindle the atmosphere of the informal chats they used to have before the Wikileaks firestorm, but the subject matter is anything but cozy. If you missed it, you can […]
Backed by Russia, China and a handful of other powerful countries, a series of proposals now gathering momentum in the U.N. seeks to dramatically increase the International Telecommunication Union’s authority over the Internet
Posted: 2012/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy, Stats / reportsTop-down, international regulation is antithetical to the Net, which has flourished under its current non-governance model A mounting effort to transform a United Nations agency into a global Internet regulator is threatening to undo decades of policymaking (???) that helped the Internet evolve (???) into the open (???), global medium we all depend on. Backed […]
MPAA attempts Hotfile takedown: Online file-sharing is dead. The largest threat to the file-sharing industry is the law itself
Posted: 2012/03/09 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Public Policyhttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/mpaa-attempts-hotfile-takedown-online-file-sharing-is-dead/71145 Previously: Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are […]
http://rt.com/news/anonymous-vatican-website-storm-105/ Not entirely true. There’s ‘independence’ and ‘freedom of thought’ as well as ‘freedom of information’, ‘privacy’ and ‘anonymity’. It’s just a different kind of Church
The graffiti theme continued inside the warehouse where soaring Rye Bar cocktail stands and bars teemed with every top-shelf tipple imaginable. All the better to pair with the bounteous McCall Associates buffet stands groaning beneath sushi and lobster bars, spit-roasted suckling pigs, pounds of fresh-sliced proscuitto and Parker’s personal favorite, Mac & Cheese copiously sprinkled with just-shaved truffles, six pounds of the pungent tuber which McCall Executive Chefs Lucas Schoemaker and Josip Martinovic had flown in from France
Posted: 2011/09/24 in Education / AwarenessAmong the revelers: Angel investor Ron Conway; Parker’s fiance, singer-songwriter Alexandra Lenas; Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning; CODE Advisors co-founder Fred Davis; author and music lyricist Danielle Steel; Playfish founder Sebastien de Halleux; Driverside.com co-founder Trevor Traina and his wife, Swanson Vineyards Creative Director Alexis Traina; Eminem manager Paul Rosenberg; Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, making a fly-by following his own F8 post-party. Yet amid […]
Incentivizing creativity by people who create things, and not large institutions who prey on them and have for years
Posted: 2011/05/27 in Education / AwarenessTheir brains simply default to “no copyright = no money,” and thus, to them the argument “but these things cost money to make” makes sense. But that’s only true if they don’t hear what we say, and don’t realize that we are talking about ways to make money — just without relying on copyright to […]
Birgitta Jonsdottir, ex-WikiLeaks, Crusades for Freedom of Information
Posted: 2011/03/03 in Education / AwarenessInterview with Icelandic member of parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir by Dominique Deckmyn in Ghent It began with John Perry Barlow – one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was in Iceland in 2008, and he talked at the Digital Freedom Society conference about that idea of a “Switzerland of the bytes.” The following […]
In the 1970s, before Twitter, Facebook or Friendster, two men electronically arranged to transport a helicopter motor using an Apple computer and modem Steve Jobs gave one of the men. From that interaction, a community called The Well was born
Posted: 2011/01/28 in Education / AwarenessThe Well turned into a place where hackers, writers and hippies alike throughout the San Francisco Bay Area would dial in and share thoughts on technology, politics and philosophy. Furthermore, Grateful Dead fans—Deadheads—would login to connect with other fans and discuss the band. And often, these electronic interactions would lead to real life meetups. But […]
Blast From The Past. John Gilmore, Cypherpunk & EFF co-founder: ‘The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it
Posted: 2011/01/23 in Education / AwarenessFrom: Julian Assange Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:05:34 +1100 To: funtimesahead[at]lists.riseup.net Subject: [WL] John Gilmore [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and […]
