Your Threat Model Just Changed - Electronic Frontier Foundation - full page ad in Wired

[octoberlib]

EFF ‏@EFF 13m13 minutes ago
Technology built to uplift and connect people should not be turned into a tool of oppression. See our full page ad in Wired.


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https://www.eff.org/

[ghostsinthemachine]

1. Awesome. Everyone should donate to the EFF

They do great work that is very important.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Skinner totally agrees

Democratic Underground Responds to Righthaven Copyright Troll Lawsuit
DECEMBER 8, 2010

Righthaven is attempting to make a business out of suing Internet websites for copyright infringement. It has filed 180 copyright actions so far —without ever first asking that a work be removed from the target website—in each case alleging “willful infringement” and attempting to extract settlements by threats of statutory damages (up to $150,000), attorneys’ fees and seizure of the domain name.

Democratic Underground -- represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Fenwick & West LLP, and attorney Chad Bowers -- was sued by Righthaven on August 10 for a five-sentence excerpt of a Las Vegas Review-Journal news story that a user posted on the forum, with a link back to the Review-Journal website.

Democratic Underground, a political message forum, refused to be intimidated by Righthaven’s action. They retained counsel and responded with a counterclaim that joined Righthaven’ affiliate and funder, Stephens Media, LLC (publisher of the Review-Journal), and laid bare the numerous defects not only in Righthaven’s claims, but in its business model itself. Not surprisingly, Righthaven now wants out—so badly, in fact, that it has moved to voluntarily dismiss its claim with prejudice in order to avoid a decision on the merits. However, Righthaven pleads to be let off the hook for Democratic Underground's fees and costs defending the lawsuit.

Democratic Underground responded to Righthaven's motion yesterday. DU agrees that this case should be over—indeed, it should never have started. But it should not end until Righthaven is called to account for the cost of the defense it provoked. To allow Righthaven to avoid compensating innocent defendants who refused to be coerced would be unjust and unsupportable. Accordingly, Democratic Underground asked the Court to deny the conditions Righthaven wrongfully proposed for the motion for voluntary dismissal and instead grant summary judgment in its favor.

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/democratic-underground-responds-righthaven

[octoberlib]

3. Awesome! Didn't know about this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. So glad you posted that bit of history, cause we have lots of new members.

Pls. feel free to repost it as occasion warrants.

[kcr]

6. I remember that.

Righthaven picked on the wrong website.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Righthaven had a unscrupulous business model and it fatally bit them in the butt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righthaven_LLC_v._Democratic_Underground_LLC

[ffr]

4. ISIS followers celebrate 11/9 as the natural extension of 9/11

https://twitter.com/rcallimachi/status/796435074220781568/photo/1

ISIS, Putin, FBI, and the GOP. Seems they're all working against America.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. wow

[smirkymonkey]

8. +1000

[robertpaulsen]

10. He also spoke of "closing that Internet up" in the event of a terror attack.

Donald Trump wants to 'close up' the Internet
by David Goldman @DavidGoldmanCNN December 8, 2015: 9:00 AM ET

Donald Trump has called for a shutdown of the Internet in certain areas to stop the spread of terror.
In a speech at the U.S.S. Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on Monday, Trump referenced the use by ISIS of social media as a recruitment tool. He recommended a discussion with Bill Gates to shut off parts of the Internet.

"We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet," Trump said. "We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people."

Some totalitarian governments do it

The notion that the Internet could be shut off is not completely off base. North Korea does it. Some countries have been known to shut off Internet service to their citizens in times of crisis. Egypt restricted the Internet during the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.

Other countries block certain Internet services and sites. China is the most famous example, forbidding most social networking sites as well as websites that deal with subjects the government doesn't want its citizens to know about.

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http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/08/technology/donald-trump-internet/