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bullinacave"Curses are like young chicken: they always come home to roost." Robert Southey 1810
New information and new perspectives are emerging. We may be finding answers to questions that up to now appeared unanswerable and we may be sitting on an even bigger powder keg than we realized. Don' ACTA like we don' know what you' talkin' about.
It may have all started with seven XXX four-letter words (or "Filthy Words") as the seven English-language words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in 1972 in his monologue "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". The words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. At the time, the words were considered highly inappropriate and unsuitable for broadcast on the public airwaves in the United States, whether radio or television.
During one of Lenny Bruce's performances in 1966, he said he was arrested for saying nine words, and says them in alphabetical order: ass, balls, cocksucker, cunt, fuck, motherfucker, piss, shit, tits. If men would only say the real source of all this debuggery, dick-face-penis-head-ass-cunt-bitch-boy-shit-fuck-devil-bastard-prick-cum-lada.
In 2000, a Canadian television news story on web filtering software found that the website for the Montreal Urban Community (Communauté urbaine de Montréal, in French) was entirely blocked because its domain name was its French acronym CUM (www.cum.qc.ca); "cum" (among other meanings) is slang for "semen".
On March 10, 2002, CBS aired "9/11", a prime-time special featuring first responders during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It contained a number of utterances of the words "holy fuck, fucked, fucker, fuck and fucking."
In December 2003 US Congressman Doug Ose, citing the incident of January 2003 at the live Golden Globe Awards broadcast by Bono, the front man of the band U2, introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives that would have explicitly deemed six of the words profane (tits was excluded but asshole added).
The band blink-182 also wrote a song, Family Reunion, with lyrics mostly composed of the seven words, plus fart, turd and twat.
"Freedom From Censorship: We believe in free expression. We will not place limits on your expression, except as required by United States law or to protect the quality and long-term viability of the service (such as removing spam). We will provide you with tools that make creativity and free expression easy. If, at any point, we have to place restrictions on your expression, we will tell you why, and work to find the best solutions possible." - Dreamwidth
The Scunthorpe problem occurs when a spam filter or search engine blocks e-mails or search results because their text contains a string of letters that are shared with an obscene word. While computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, broad blocking rules may result in false positives, causing innocent phrases to be blocked. The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's dirty-word filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring cunt. Years later, Google's filters apparently made the same mistake, preventing residents from searching for local businesses that included Scunthorpe in their names. Residents of Penistone, South Yorkshire, experienced problems because the town's name includes the substring penis. Lightwater in Surrey suffered similarly because its name contains the substring twat. Residents of Clitheroe (Lancashire, England) have been repeatedly inconvenienced because their town's name includes the substring clit, which (among other meanings) is a slang word for "clitoris".
Google Dinosaur - Zhezhunchong Formation ( cf. Lufengosaurus huenei )
Google has been criticized for various instances of censoring its search results, many times in compliance with the laws of various countries, most notably in China, and subversively in all countries. Other times in lieu of its corporate clients, regardless of how corrupt they may be. Point in count, the broad media censorship of the US BP Gulf Oil Spill.
The countries which appear to have the most repressive Internet censorship schemes are:
Australia
Burma
China
Cuba
Iran
North Korea
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
and now, yes, America land of the "free"?
Another serious affect of the censorship is that web sites attempting to expose corruption and entrapment schemes, including those operated by the FBI, such as Inquisition UK or the very blog you are reading, which names criminal webmasters and their web site titles, could be filtered out simply because the very names we must use to identify these sites could be the trigger for blocking.
Inquisition UK
Google Inc acquired YouTube, a video sharing website, in 2006. YouTube's Terms of Service prohibits the posting of videos which violate copyrights or depict pornography, illegal acts, gratuitous violence, or hate speech. YouTube has also been criticized by its users for attempting to censor content. According to Joe Wilcox of Microsoft-Watch Google has increased its dominance of search, becoming an information gatekeeper despite the conflict of interest between information gathering and the advertising surrounding that information. His colleagues do not share the same view. In the case of the now-defunct Google-Yahoo! deal of 2008 — a pact for Google to sell advertising on Yahoo! search pages — the U.S. Department of Justice found that the deal would be "materially reducing important competitive rivalry between the two companies" and would violate the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Google has been criticized by journalists and others for using legal, but aggressive tax avoidance strategies to minimize its corporate tax bill. Google cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the period of 2007 to 2009 using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and The Netherlands to Bermuda. Google’s income shifting — involving strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” – helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries.
“Google has developed tight connection with the United States government. Obama and all the top people from Google are friends. They supported him during the elections and therefore, a lot of previously leaders of Google have now important positions at the White House. There is a very powerful connection between them and I don’t really think it is a healthy one.” - Siva Vaidhyanathan
“Google is the most powerful informational resource in the world, with a huge profit. I assume that Google offers various data to governmental departments. Big Brother is for real. They know the important dates in my schedule, who I mail and all the searches I perform. They can also view my financial entries and are able to interpret all these things. Why do we let Google do this? It is a 100 billion United States dollars question. I think people don’t know what is happening with their information. " - Dave Rosenberg
“Our personal information turned into money. If Google offers me 10 free gigabytes for my e-mail that I can access from through my mobile phone, obviously there is an unwritten agreement that one way or another I pay for it, by disclosing my personal information.” - Paul Douglas Techradar.
Nobody really knows how much data Google has about you, but having a Gmail account means you sell yourself to it. Their computers read every messages coming in and out of your mail, therefore they can send you ads that have a direct connection with the content of your messages, and if you use Youtube, it means that it doesn’t only know about your web searches, shopping and news you read, but also about what you consider to be funny, what your favorite football team is and what models you try to follow.
In the next 5 years, Google will control more and more of our lives, starting with Facebook and ending with the Apple fusion. And the losses won’t stop here. Google decided to digitalize all the books worldwide, which led to major conflicts with authors and publishers. They revolted against the journalistic industry, which claims that Google stole their content. It invaded the intimacy of people by installing Street View cameras in public areas.
“Maybe in the future, the search engine will know precisely where you are.” - Marissa Mayer, vice president of the Google Search Products And User Experience department.
You hear that Lobo? Google thinks you are the monster!
ZheZhe Google
WikiLeaks says their goal is "to bring important news and information to the public... One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth." Another of the organisation's goals is to ensure that whistleblowers and journalists are not jailed for emailing sensitive or classified documents. The online "drop box" (currently not functioning) was designed to "provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists." In an interview on The Colbert Report, Assange discussed the limit to the freedom of speech, saying, "[it is] not an ultimate freedom, however free speech is what regulates government and regulates law. That is why in the US Constitution the Bill of Rights says that Congress is to make no such law abridging the freedom of the press. It is to take the rights of the press outside the rights of the law because those rights are superior to the law because in fact they create the law. Every constitution, every bit of legislation is derived from the flow of information. Similarly every government is elected as a result of people understanding things"
*A 7-paged Wikileaks document presents the summary of the 59th session of the `World Customs Organization's Policy Commission from of June 23rd - 25th 2008. While summarizing various formal matters discussed at the meeting around the organization of the Policy Commission (PC), the document also outlines discussions around "SECURE" (Standards to be Employed by Customs for Uniform Rights Enforcement) and "Customs in 21st century", two approaches to address Intellectual Property (IP) regulation. The section on the progress of the implementation of the WCO action plan notes a discussion around the "preferential rules of origin", a scheme implemented in the WCO's action plan to foster a database of IP origin to be globally enforced. Wikileaks
US Proposed ACTA multi-lateral intellectual property trade agreement (2007)
The World Knows This Is An American Disease...
Who is really behind ACTA? Follow the money:
US Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA)[4]
Top four campaign contributions for 2006:
Time Warner $21,000
News Corp $15,000
Sony Corp of America $14,000
Walt Disney Co $13,550
Top two Industries:
TV/Movies/Music $181,050
Lawyers/Law Firms $114,200
ACTA was launched on October 23, 2007 by US Ambassador Susan C. Schwab and five U.S. members of Congress from the "Congressional Caucus on Intellectual Property and Piracy Prevention".
Other politicians listed also show significant contributions from IP industries.
Dick-face-penis-head-ass-cunt-bitch-boy-shit-fuck-devil-bastard-prick-cum-ladas, one and all !!
For example page three, paragraph one is a "Pirate Bay killer" clause designed to criminalize the non-profit facilitation of unauthorized information exchange on the internet. This clause would also negatively affect transparency and primary source journalism sites such as Wikileaks.
Anonymous, whose genesis can be traced back to a popular US image messaging board, has become increasingly politicised amid a global clampdown on music piracy and the international controversy over the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks, with which many of its supporters identify. 25 suspected members of the Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in police raids across Europe and South America. International police agency Interpol said the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain were carried out by officers working under the support of Interpol's Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology Crime. Independent News
One Twitter account purportedly associated with Anonymous' Brazilian wing said the sweep would fail. "Interpol, you can't take Anonymous. It's an idea." - Anonymous
.
New information and new perspectives are emerging. We may be finding answers to questions that up to now appeared unanswerable and we may be sitting on an even bigger powder keg than we realized. Don' ACTA like we don' know what you' talkin' about.
It may have all started with seven XXX four-letter words (or "Filthy Words") as the seven English-language words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in 1972 in his monologue "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". The words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. At the time, the words were considered highly inappropriate and unsuitable for broadcast on the public airwaves in the United States, whether radio or television.
During one of Lenny Bruce's performances in 1966, he said he was arrested for saying nine words, and says them in alphabetical order: ass, balls, cocksucker, cunt, fuck, motherfucker, piss, shit, tits. If men would only say the real source of all this debuggery, dick-face-penis-head-ass-cunt-bitch-boy-shit-fuck-devil-bastard-prick-cum-lada.
In 2000, a Canadian television news story on web filtering software found that the website for the Montreal Urban Community (Communauté urbaine de Montréal, in French) was entirely blocked because its domain name was its French acronym CUM (www.cum.qc.ca); "cum" (among other meanings) is slang for "semen".
On March 10, 2002, CBS aired "9/11", a prime-time special featuring first responders during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It contained a number of utterances of the words "holy fuck, fucked, fucker, fuck and fucking."
In December 2003 US Congressman Doug Ose, citing the incident of January 2003 at the live Golden Globe Awards broadcast by Bono, the front man of the band U2, introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives that would have explicitly deemed six of the words profane (tits was excluded but asshole added).
The band blink-182 also wrote a song, Family Reunion, with lyrics mostly composed of the seven words, plus fart, turd and twat.
"Freedom From Censorship: We believe in free expression. We will not place limits on your expression, except as required by United States law or to protect the quality and long-term viability of the service (such as removing spam). We will provide you with tools that make creativity and free expression easy. If, at any point, we have to place restrictions on your expression, we will tell you why, and work to find the best solutions possible." - Dreamwidth
The Scunthorpe problem occurs when a spam filter or search engine blocks e-mails or search results because their text contains a string of letters that are shared with an obscene word. While computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, broad blocking rules may result in false positives, causing innocent phrases to be blocked. The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's dirty-word filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring cunt. Years later, Google's filters apparently made the same mistake, preventing residents from searching for local businesses that included Scunthorpe in their names. Residents of Penistone, South Yorkshire, experienced problems because the town's name includes the substring penis. Lightwater in Surrey suffered similarly because its name contains the substring twat. Residents of Clitheroe (Lancashire, England) have been repeatedly inconvenienced because their town's name includes the substring clit, which (among other meanings) is a slang word for "clitoris".
Google Dinosaur - Zhezhunchong Formation ( cf. Lufengosaurus huenei )
Google has been criticized for various instances of censoring its search results, many times in compliance with the laws of various countries, most notably in China, and subversively in all countries. Other times in lieu of its corporate clients, regardless of how corrupt they may be. Point in count, the broad media censorship of the US BP Gulf Oil Spill.
The countries which appear to have the most repressive Internet censorship schemes are:
Australia
Burma
China
Cuba
Iran
North Korea
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
and now, yes, America land of the "free"?
Another serious affect of the censorship is that web sites attempting to expose corruption and entrapment schemes, including those operated by the FBI, such as Inquisition UK or the very blog you are reading, which names criminal webmasters and their web site titles, could be filtered out simply because the very names we must use to identify these sites could be the trigger for blocking.
Inquisition UK
Google Inc acquired YouTube, a video sharing website, in 2006. YouTube's Terms of Service prohibits the posting of videos which violate copyrights or depict pornography, illegal acts, gratuitous violence, or hate speech. YouTube has also been criticized by its users for attempting to censor content. According to Joe Wilcox of Microsoft-Watch Google has increased its dominance of search, becoming an information gatekeeper despite the conflict of interest between information gathering and the advertising surrounding that information. His colleagues do not share the same view. In the case of the now-defunct Google-Yahoo! deal of 2008 — a pact for Google to sell advertising on Yahoo! search pages — the U.S. Department of Justice found that the deal would be "materially reducing important competitive rivalry between the two companies" and would violate the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Google has been criticized by journalists and others for using legal, but aggressive tax avoidance strategies to minimize its corporate tax bill. Google cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the period of 2007 to 2009 using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and The Netherlands to Bermuda. Google’s income shifting — involving strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” – helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries.
“Google has developed tight connection with the United States government. Obama and all the top people from Google are friends. They supported him during the elections and therefore, a lot of previously leaders of Google have now important positions at the White House. There is a very powerful connection between them and I don’t really think it is a healthy one.” - Siva Vaidhyanathan
“Google is the most powerful informational resource in the world, with a huge profit. I assume that Google offers various data to governmental departments. Big Brother is for real. They know the important dates in my schedule, who I mail and all the searches I perform. They can also view my financial entries and are able to interpret all these things. Why do we let Google do this? It is a 100 billion United States dollars question. I think people don’t know what is happening with their information. " - Dave Rosenberg
“Our personal information turned into money. If Google offers me 10 free gigabytes for my e-mail that I can access from through my mobile phone, obviously there is an unwritten agreement that one way or another I pay for it, by disclosing my personal information.” - Paul Douglas Techradar.
Nobody really knows how much data Google has about you, but having a Gmail account means you sell yourself to it. Their computers read every messages coming in and out of your mail, therefore they can send you ads that have a direct connection with the content of your messages, and if you use Youtube, it means that it doesn’t only know about your web searches, shopping and news you read, but also about what you consider to be funny, what your favorite football team is and what models you try to follow.
In the next 5 years, Google will control more and more of our lives, starting with Facebook and ending with the Apple fusion. And the losses won’t stop here. Google decided to digitalize all the books worldwide, which led to major conflicts with authors and publishers. They revolted against the journalistic industry, which claims that Google stole their content. It invaded the intimacy of people by installing Street View cameras in public areas.
“Maybe in the future, the search engine will know precisely where you are.” - Marissa Mayer, vice president of the Google Search Products And User Experience department.
You hear that Lobo? Google thinks you are the monster!
ZheZhe Google
WikiLeaks says their goal is "to bring important news and information to the public... One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth." Another of the organisation's goals is to ensure that whistleblowers and journalists are not jailed for emailing sensitive or classified documents. The online "drop box" (currently not functioning) was designed to "provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists." In an interview on The Colbert Report, Assange discussed the limit to the freedom of speech, saying, "[it is] not an ultimate freedom, however free speech is what regulates government and regulates law. That is why in the US Constitution the Bill of Rights says that Congress is to make no such law abridging the freedom of the press. It is to take the rights of the press outside the rights of the law because those rights are superior to the law because in fact they create the law. Every constitution, every bit of legislation is derived from the flow of information. Similarly every government is elected as a result of people understanding things"
*A 7-paged Wikileaks document presents the summary of the 59th session of the `World Customs Organization's Policy Commission from of June 23rd - 25th 2008. While summarizing various formal matters discussed at the meeting around the organization of the Policy Commission (PC), the document also outlines discussions around "SECURE" (Standards to be Employed by Customs for Uniform Rights Enforcement) and "Customs in 21st century", two approaches to address Intellectual Property (IP) regulation. The section on the progress of the implementation of the WCO action plan notes a discussion around the "preferential rules of origin", a scheme implemented in the WCO's action plan to foster a database of IP origin to be globally enforced. Wikileaks
US Proposed ACTA multi-lateral intellectual property trade agreement (2007)
The World Knows This Is An American Disease...
Who is really behind ACTA? Follow the money:
US Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA)[4]
Top four campaign contributions for 2006:
Time Warner $21,000
News Corp $15,000
Sony Corp of America $14,000
Walt Disney Co $13,550
Top two Industries:
TV/Movies/Music $181,050
Lawyers/Law Firms $114,200
ACTA was launched on October 23, 2007 by US Ambassador Susan C. Schwab and five U.S. members of Congress from the "Congressional Caucus on Intellectual Property and Piracy Prevention".
Other politicians listed also show significant contributions from IP industries.
Dick-face-penis-head-ass-cunt-bitch-boy-shit-fuck-devil-bastard-prick-cum-ladas, one and all !!
For example page three, paragraph one is a "Pirate Bay killer" clause designed to criminalize the non-profit facilitation of unauthorized information exchange on the internet. This clause would also negatively affect transparency and primary source journalism sites such as Wikileaks.
Anonymous, whose genesis can be traced back to a popular US image messaging board, has become increasingly politicised amid a global clampdown on music piracy and the international controversy over the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks, with which many of its supporters identify. 25 suspected members of the Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in police raids across Europe and South America. International police agency Interpol said the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain were carried out by officers working under the support of Interpol's Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology Crime. Independent News
One Twitter account purportedly associated with Anonymous' Brazilian wing said the sweep would fail. "Interpol, you can't take Anonymous. It's an idea." - Anonymous
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