Good Evening Readers...My apologies for not reporting any Censorship News lately...there just hasn't been a whole lot going on. But, There Is Now! Check it out!!!
TheSOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill has resurfaced and is once again trying to be passed. ... This stupid new bill called SOPA is trying to pass again......Read More!
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Russian Gang Amasses Over a Billion Internet Passwords
A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say.
The records, discovered by Hold Security, a firm in Milwaukee, include confidential material gathered from 420,000 websites, including household names, and small Internet sites. Hold Security has a history of uncovering significant hacks, including the theft last year of tens of millions of records from Adobe Systems.
Hold Security would not name the victims, citing nondisclosure agreements and a reluctance to name companies whose sites remained vulnerable. At the request of The New York Times, a security expert not affiliated with Hold Security analyzed the database of stolen credentials and confirmed it was authentic. Another computer crime expert who had reviewed the data, but was not allowed to discuss it publicly, said some big companies were aware that their records were among the stolen information. Read More!
Dr. M's Latest Call: Internet Censorship
Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad made a suggestion for the government to censor the Internet and that the press needed to be censored because freedom of any kind will always be open to abuse. — File pic
“Not knowing the power of the Internet, I promised that we (speaking as the prime minister of Malaysia then) would not censor it. But today I have changed my mind.
“I have done so because the players, including those controlling the servers have been applying their own censorship of what can appear in this alternative media. I myself have suffered from such censorship,” Dr Mahathir said in his blog posting, today.
Citing social networking giant Facebook having blocked links to his blog chedet.cc. last week, Dr Mahathir admitted that there have numerous attempts by various parties to block access to his blog.
“When I put on my blog, an article on the Jews, without any explanation, my article was prevented from being linked to Facebook.
“But that is not all. I first used the internationally available platform to host my blog. When hundreds of thousands visited my blog, suddenly the platform rejected hosting my blog site,” he said adding that despite changing servers and platforms three times, numerous spam and virus attacks continued in his blog.
The former prime minister said that by blocking one’s blog, the people who hosts these platforms and servers are able to censor more than the government could currently exercise.
“Blocking is of course a form of censorship. The Internet is not the free alternative to the state-controlled print and electronic media it is touted to be,” he said. Read More!
Web lobby chief: Young people key to stopping Internet 'fast lanes'
Young people who are fluent with the Internet will be crucial in convincing the Federal Communications Commission to prevent “fast lanes” online, according to the head of a major Internet lobbying group.
That includes regulators' own children and grandchildren.
“You’re going to be hearing from the granddaughters and the grandsons and the children of older members of Congress and regulators, because that’s the side that they’re on,” Internet Association Chief executive Michael Beckerman said on Bloomberg’s “Market Makers” on Wednesday.
Beckerman, whose group represents Web titans including Google and AOL, compared the public lobbying over the FCC’s new proposal for regulating online traffic to the 2012 congressional battle over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Web activists were incredibly influential in stopping those two bills, which they warned would limit freedom of expression online.
Since then, lawmakers and agency regulators in Washington have taken Internet users’ comments more seriously, Beckerman said.
“I think that certainly has changed Washington’s perception of technology and Internet companies and the power of Internet users,” he added. Read More!
Sopa Controversy Explained
What is sopa and how does it work? the stop online piracy act explained, That now looks like it'll happen in early january, but don't expect the controversy to die down in the meantime — sopa has been deeply criticized by nearly every company that does serious business online, but i'd expect the content industry to push back.
Epic games stands against sopa, Earlier this week, the entertainment software association proclaimed its support for the stop online piracy act, a piece of legislation that has created much controversy manager dana cowley explained the studio's stance on sopa in a terse statement..
Sopa (stop online piracy act) debate: why are google and facebook against it?, Both the stop online piracy act (sopa) and the protect ip act picture companies against tech giants like google, but what would sopa mean for the individual artist? as maura judkis explained: the bill is a mixed bag for artists and musicians.Read More!
SOPA: How much does online piracy really cost the economy?
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been widely panned as a dubious idea, uniting both liberals and conservatives in opposition. But doesn’t the bill, at the very least, identify a serious problem? Isn’t online piracy inflicting all sorts of damage on the U.S. economy? That’s the argument. But the actual numbers are surprisingly hard to pin down.
For example, the Motion Picture Association of America estimates that piracy costs the U.S. movie industry some $20.5 billion per year. But Julian Sanchez scrutinizes these figures and finds they don’t hold up. After you remove all the double-counting and restrict the focus solely to American users — which is the only thing SOPA addresses, anyway — then, he notes, those industry-estimated losses come to just $446 million per year (“roughly the amount grossed globally by Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel”). .....Read More!
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