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Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is DEAD!!!
by xorcist at sigaint.org 13 Nov '16

13 Nov '16

> John Newman: > as Juan said, fucking bad news that Trump won John = Juan Clarifies Juan's deep knowledge of a place he don't live.

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[info@fsf.org: He invented the Web. Would he give up on free standards?]
by Mr Harkness 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

----- Forwarded message from "Zak Rogoff, FSF" <info(a)fsf.org> ----- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:09:55 -0500 From: "Zak Rogoff, FSF" <info(a)fsf.org> Reply-To: "Zak Rogoff, FSF" <info(a)fsf.org> Subject: He invented the Web. Would he give up on free standards? Dear Mr Zenaan Harkness, The chief arbiter of Web standards, Tim Berners-Lee, has an important choice to make this week. He must decide whether or not to allow media and technology companies to add socially harmful [Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)][1] into the technical capabilities of the Web, with a proposal called [Encrypted Media Extensions][2] (EME). The companies are currently asking for Berners-Lee's seal of approval to move EME to the next phase of standardization: a Proposed Recommendation of the [World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)][3]. [1]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_manageme… [2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media [3]: https://www.w3.org Twenty-five years ago, Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Back then timbl -- as he's known online -- declined opportunities to lock down his creation and established himself as an advocate for a freedom-affirming, interoperable, and universally accessible World Wide Web. Now he's considering turning his back on this vision to make Netflix, Google, Apple, and Microsoft happy. **We have just days to convince Tim Berners-Lee to choose freedom for the Web and block Encrypted Media Extensions from becoming an official standard. Repeat the [GNU social][4] and [Twitter][6]¹ messages from our anti-DRM campaign, asking Tim a simple question: #WhatWouldTimblDo? Would the Web's once idealistic inventor really give up on free standards?** [4]: https://status.fsf.org/notice/189277 [6]: https://mobile.twitter.com/endDRM/status/796475563204550656 Not in to social media? You can also take action by [sending in a selfie against DRM in Web standards][7] or [signing our petition][8]. [7]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/selfie-against-drm-in-web-standards [8]: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?gid=183&reset=1 ### Some background Big media owners, like the movie studios represented by the [MPAA][9] and the music labels represented by the [RIAA][10], feel threatened by the sharing that digital technology enables. Since the '90s, they've poured bottomless resources into locking down not just the Web but physical devices as well. One of their favorite tools is DRM -- digital handcuffs that limit what people can do with media. [9]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/topic/mpaa [10]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/topic/riaa These companies have never cared that DRM denies users the right to control their computers, or that it causes huge collateral damage by [opening security holes][11], restricting cultural creativity, and [limiting accessibility for the disabled][12]. In fact, they've even had laws like the [Digital Millenium Copyright Act][13] passed, to give DRM special status that makes it illegal to circumvent. More recently, companies that stream media, like Netflix and Google, have forged distribution deals with media giants. These lucrative relationships are an incentive to join the labels in their quest for control. [11]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/ten-years-after-sony-rootkit [12]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/disabling-the-disabled [13]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/DMCA-exemptions-process-anti-circumvention In 2013 Berners-Lee surprised the world by allowing some of the companies that use DRM -- namely Netflix, Apple, Google, and Microsoft -- to start developing their latest project within the walls of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the official Web standards organization led by Berners-Lee. Their project, EME, is a universal DRM system for the Web. The choice Berners-Lee faces now is whether or not to allow EME to reach the "maturity level" of a Proposed W3C Recommendation, indicating he feels it is ready to become an official standard and passing it to the W3C's Advisory Committee for ratification. This is the first time that Berners-Lee and the W3C have considered including DRM in Web standards. Berners-Lee seems to be hoping that the big media companies will accept EME and use it to make DRM cheaper and easier for streaming video, then leave the free Web alone. But history shows us the exact opposite. DRM has to keep spreading to new platforms and formats to maintain control over users, and its owners have no reason not to use their massive power and money to continue integrating it into more elements of the Web. Indeed, there are murmurs about adding DRM to [text][14] and [image][15] standards, which would be energized by the ratification of EME. EME foreshadows a future Web that is riddled with DRM, where the freedom and transparency of the system (like viewing source HTML in a browser) will be gradually phased out. [14]: http://idpf.org/epub-content-protection [15]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/theres-no-drm-jpeg-lets-keep-it-way ### We won't give up on the Web Berners-Lee still has a chance to say no to EME and keep the W3C on the right side of history. There is a real possibility that he might -- he's [recently weakened his support for EME][16]. If he does reject it, he will be congratulated by the community of technologists that work in the public interest -- figures like security expert [Bruce Schneier][17] and MIT Media Lab director [Joi Ito][18] have been very clear that they want a Web without DRM, and more than 34,000 people sent the same message through [petition signatures][19]. All timbl has to do is remember his original vision for the Web, and block EME from moving forward through the W3C standards-setting process. [16]: https://defectivebydesign.org/blog/tim_bernerslee_just_gave_us_opening_stop… [17]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/01/fighting_drm_in.html [18]: https://boingboing.net/2016/03/13/joi-ito-on-drm-the-world-wide.html [19]: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?gid=183&reset=1 **Head to [GNU social][4] or [Twitter][6]¹, and remind Tim Berners-Lee of his original vision for the Web.** [4]: https://status.fsf.org/notice/189277 [6]: https://mobile.twitter.com/endDRM/status/796475563204550656 ¹: We recommend free software-based, decentralized microblogging services like GNU Social and Pump.io over Twitter ([read more][20]). [20]: https://www.fsf.org/twitter Zak Rogoff Campaigns Manager *Read online: <https://defectivebydesign.org/blog/tim_bernerslee_created_sold_out_web>* -- * Follow us at <https://status.fsf.org/fsf>. * Subscribe to our RSS feeds at <https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS>. * Join us as an associate member at <https://www.fsf.org/jf>. Sent from the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335 UNITED STATES You can unsubscribe from this mailing list by visiting https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=146835&qid=22185…. To stop all email from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by Design, and the Free Software Supporter newsletter, visit https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=146835&qid=22185512&h…. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is DEAD!!!
by xorcist at sigaint.org 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

> John Newman: > [Trump] will do everything in his considerable power to enrich himself, > his class, and his cronies > > I happen to live in the DC area We get it, you are DNC contractor.

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Snakes On Tor
by grarpamp 12 Nov '16

12 Nov '16

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/fbi-operated-23-tor-hidden-child… https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5ceq0y/fbi_operated_23_torhidden_chi… According to an FBI affidavit among the unsealed documents: In the normal course of the operation of a web site, a user sends "request data" to the web site in order to access that site. While Websites 1-23 operate at a government facility, such request data associated with a user's actions on Websites 1-23 will be collected. That data collection is not a function of the NIT. Such request data can be paired with data collected by the NIT, however, in order to attempt to identify a particular user and to determine that particular user's actions on Websites 1-23. It's to be expected that all variety of snakes inhabit darkwebs.

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Re: though shalt NOT gloat!
by z9wahqvh 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

a rare moment when Juan & the Washington Post agree https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/ 11/11/if-you-voted-for-trump-because-hes-anti-establishment-guess-what-you- got-conned/ -z On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 4:56 PM, juan <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So, how long before you admit that trump is nothing but a > puppet of the establishment? Well, not exactly a puppet since > HE is the establishment. > > >

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Snowden streaming Live @ StartPage.com / November 10th 16:30 hours
by MARK GORE 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Edward Snowden streaming LIVE at StartPage.com on November 10! Edward Snowden Join us on Thursday, November 10, for an exclusive free post-election livestream Q&A with Edward Snowden. The world’s most famous whistleblower will address questions about how the US Election results will affect your privacy and his pardon, as well as other questions submitted via social media. We are thrilled to make this event available for viewing at https://www.startpage.com/snowden/ starting at approximately 4:30 PM Eastern time on November 10. The feed will be broadcast from the Pathé Tuschinski in Amsterdam where Snowden will be patched in to our live theater audience via satellite transmission from Moscow. Edward Snowden became world famous after he handed journalists classified documents detailing the global espionage activities of the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden’s exposure of covert government surveillance put privacy firmly on the map, but also put him at great risk. He was forced to flee the US in 2013 to avoid arrest and currently resides in Russia, where he has been given asylum. “Edward Snowden’s revelations about government spying and mass data collection are of crucial importance to our society, but he had to sacrifice his free life for it,” said Robert Beens, CEO of StartPage.com. “We are proud to honor his service and help bring his privacy message to the world.” Special thanks to the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Edward Snowden’s attorney Ben Wizner of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project for helping make this historic event possible. We are also grateful to Amnesty International and PardonSnowden.org for sponsoring a petition that asks US President Barack Obama to pardon Edward Snowden before leaving office in January 2017. Livestream Q&A question suggestions may be submitted now through November 9 using the hashtag #StartPageSnowden. We look forward to seeing what you would like our moderator to ask Mr. Snowden. The live event will start at approximately 4:30 PM Eastern time and can be seen here. Thank you for caring about privacy!

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Countervail: 'Progressive-liberal Fascism Rears It's Ugly Head In The "Sharing Economy"'
by Razer 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

That post on twitter got all sorts of RTs by Trump's HitCrew attacking GrubHub. Some of the accounts exist solely to attack GrubHub. Those are reported as Spam. I send this to the accounts that seem to be personally manned, and then block. #Trumpism Roots: "My high school had more convicted sex predator teachers than minority teachers" > I’m from the rural Midwest. I now live in Washington, D.C. All of this > talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it > backward. > > My home county in Ohio is 97 percent white. It, like a lot of other > very unrepresentative counties, went heavily for Donald Trump. > > My high school had about 950 students. Two were Asian. One was > Hispanic. Zero were Muslim. All the teachers were white. > > My high school had more convicted sexual predator teachers than > minority teachers. That’s a rural American story. > > In many of these areas, the only Muslims you see are in movies like > “American Sniper.” (I knew zero Muslims before going to college in > another state.) You never see gay couples or even interracial ones. > Much of rural and exurban American is a time capsule to America’s past. > > And on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, they dug it up. > > The first gay person I knew personally was my college roommate — a > great man who made me a better person. But that’s an experience I > would have never had if I didn’t go to college and instead decided to > live the rest of my life in my hometown. > > That was when I realized that not supporting gay marriage meant to > actively deny rights to someone I knew personally. I wouldn’t be > denying marriage rights to other people; I would be denying marriage > rights to Dave. I would have to look Dave in the eye and say, “Dave, > you deserve fewer rights than me. You deserve a lesser human experience.” > > When you grow up in rural America, denying rights to people is an > abstract concept. Denying marriage rights to gay people isn’t that > much different than denying boarding rights to Klingons. http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/im-a-coastal-elite-from-the-midwest-th…

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Progressive-liberal Fascism Rears It's Ugly Head In The "Sharing Economy"
by Razer 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

GrubHub would be considered 'sharing economy' He "promised to “fight for [the] dignity” of any employee who feels scared or threatened. Then threatened them... >From McClatchy newspapers: > The CEO of Grubhub, a food delivery service, sent an email to more > than 1,000 employees Wednesday, sharply criticizing President-elect > Donald Trump and concluding by saying that if any worker agreed with > Trump’s rhetoric, they should resign, according to BuzzFeed News. > > Matt Maloney has been an active supporter of Democrat Hillary Clinton > and fierce critic of Trump throughout the presidential campaign. After > Trump’s surprising win Tuesday, Maloney said in his email (included > below) he was, like many Clinton voters, still struggling to come to > terms with the fact that the highly controversial Republican would be > the next president. > > [...] > > With reports pouring in from across the country of women and > minorities suffering harassment and verbal and physical assault from > Trump supporters, Maloney also promised to “fight for [the] dignity” > of any employee who feels scared or threatened. > > But the paragraph of the email which has drawn the most scrutiny and > criticism came at the very end, as Maloney wrote that if any employees > disagreed with him, “then please reply to this email with your > resignation because you have no place here. We do not tolerate hateful > attitudes on our team.” > > Trump supporters have attacked Maloney’s statement as a violation of > federal labor laws that prohibit discrimination based on political > affiliation. > In Full: http://www.bradenton.com/news/politics-government/election/article114065183…

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Re: Trump Postmortem: Why He Won
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:48:58 +1100 From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> Subject: Re: Trump Postmortem: Why He Won Michael Moore, eat your hear out! In your -face- hypocrite!!! Enjoy :) z Michael Moore's Message to Butthurt Dems Is BS: Trump Is Projected to Win the Popular Vote. Sorry? http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/michael-moores-message-butthurt-dems-… ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: US: Post Election Protests
by John Newman 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

> On Nov 10, 2016, at 10:58 AM, Razer <rayzer(a)riseup.net> wrote: > > > > On 11/10/2016 03:47 AM, John Newman wrote some non-analytical nonsense: > >> Violence ended slavery in the South. >> Violence created the so called "land of the free" =) >> >> Sometimes it's the solution. >> >> John > > > > Violence is a tactic. It can LEAD to a solution but it is not the > solution itself Yes , truly spoken. The thing about violence is - science has advanced so many "wonderful ways" for us to kill ourselves, it becomes increasingly obvious humanity needs to either disavow war altogether (how to do that I have no idea) or face the inevitable conclusion that we are going to fucking destroy ourselves. Fermi paradox solved =) John

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