Tag: SOPA

• After SOPA… ACTA… and other copyright issues

  So, following my post about SOPA but obviously in no way because of it, SOPA has been shelved… for now. And almost immediately we are presented with ACTA. If at first you don’t succeed, simply re-package and re-present until the dissenters are too tired and confused to retaliate. The Anti-Copyright Theft Act is potentially even more damaging…

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  27 Jan 2012

  human rights, non human animals, photography, rant

  ACTA, censorship, copyright, goldfinch, internet, Judge Colin Birss, law, photograph, photography, red bus, SOPA, twitter

• Wikipedia Blackout

  Tomorrow, 18th January 2012, Wikipedia will go offline for the day. This is in protest at proposed American legislation which, if enacted, is able and liable to damage the integrity and freedom of the Internet. The following statement is taken (without permission) from the Wikipedia site. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that has been developed…

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  17 Jan 2012

  Ethics, human rights

  censorship, PIPA, SOPA, wikipedia