Joakal

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by Joakal 15y ago
We need to give our children the Internet Freedom to create their own future. If you disagree, you hate children's futures and should not be part of politics.
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by Joakal 15y ago
Cyber-bullying, child porn, piracy, etc, are all a red herring. It's virtually impossible to stop it completely unless the Internet was either taken down or completely monitored and controlled. The first step to controlling content is to be
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by Joakal 15y ago
So much effort on tackling SOPA. Three months later, there's a bill titled Stop Online Child Pornography. Then there's a lot of PR issues. The companies should be demanding Internet Freedom bills to replace SOPA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP, COICA, CE
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Very likely that they already explained to their relatives after bringing it up. I even heard that people in IT have said that other people they work with have no idea about the ramifications of SOPA and many other anti-Internet bills.
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by Joakal 15y ago
If preconceptions of domain users tend to not care about women being sexual objects or animals being shot, then I don't see how GoDaddy will be affected. Now, legislation that means the domain users can have their domains taken from under t
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by Joakal 15y ago
I would rather like governments to punish abusers of copyright if the intent of it was to promote innovation and creativity. Since there had not been any attempts to punish or reduce such disproportionate abuses, there's no place for more c
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by Joakal 15y ago
That's the equivalent of USA blowing up an USA base with nuclear bombs to defend against the invaders. Please take it to them, blow up the invaders in their own bases. Instead, promote Internet Freedom to replace and outlaw SOPA, DMCA, PROT
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IIRC for USA: Is access to a lawyer in court not a right because it is paid for by the court?
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Oof, seems like a lot of inefficiency in retraining, redocumentation, converting, etc. Not to mention the debugging issues between two different technologies. Why would it be fine?
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I wrote about this too: http://joakal.com/2011/09/27/the-social-network-killer-like-...
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Does anyone have a transcript for those that are unable to parse video content? Alexis, did you talk about Internet Freedom? How anyone in the world can use Internet to read about controversial topics, to share memories, etc. However, certa
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I think a good point is to avoid jokes, especially weak ones. They're easy and distract from the original topic(s).
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Security of user accounts is no joking matter. It may be hijacked for spam bots. Someone may pose as you telling stories.
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In NSW, police with dogs are greatly disliked: http://www.nswccl.org.au/issues/sniffer_dogs.php tl;dr: Dogs weren't effective, people were harassed, records say ineffective, ombudsman called on government to withdraw the abusive powers.
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There's no control over what is bought for customers, or if they're nice, they allow opening it up but there's an automatic gag order. Thanks to anti-circumvention laws among others. Part of the powerful copyright lobby.
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"Right to read" http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/03/stallmans-the-right-to-read-... (Related: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20069648-264/richard-stall... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Read ) Here's a lot more in the ar
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by Joakal 15y ago
It's pretty good to tackle SOPA, but the bigger picture is that there had been and currently are other SOPA-related bills. So it's seems likely that there will be more future attempts until it gives way to more Internet control. Demand Inte
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c, as in Earth's view of ship's speed?
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Much like time travel if it was possible.
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Assuming there's no microscopic debris in space and it's pretty empty, wouldn't it be possible to accelerate faster than c relative to Earth and get there sooner in terms of body age? I mean gradual increase of acceleration, of course. I un
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by Joakal 15y ago
How about this 'Scientists to test if cancer cure can work in humans | CTV News': http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20080627/cancer_trial_0... Disclaimer: I have no medical knowledge but this article saying they cured cancer in mice wi
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http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nnnfw/why_godaddy_supp...
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by Joakal 15y ago
Yes, it's acceptable because entrenched conservative interests are against fresh young interests + people with a lot to lose. If such conservative influence against congress was regulated, then the reputation cost of such blackouts would ri
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by Joakal 15y ago
It will certainly turn more against SOPA supporters. I'm still finding so many that are unaware about SOPA and upon understanding that it's far-reaching attempt to control the Internet, they're not SOPA opponents. However, the older generat
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It's how the game is played until congress restricts or regulates such influence. An analogy would be a voter refusing to vote because representatives are not representing the voter. Self-reinforcing view (or exiology).
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Very unlikely; the SOPA bill will impose significant costs to their operations compared to the reputation loss of publicly political to protect their bottom line.
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The alternative is the bill making such companies non-neutral, for copyright industry interests.
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by Joakal 15y ago
Watch out for movement fatigue. The Internet Filter/Censorship blackout happened in Australia; it was partially successful in the filter not being mandatory. But the biggest ISPs are pushing filters on their customers 'voluntarily' with gov
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Anyone know what the latest maximum penalty in USA to send three wedding photos from grandmother without a copyright release from the wedding photographer? In other words, the penalties for sharing memories with your family. tl;dr: USA's Pe
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Add it to the anti-SOPA bill; allow outdated DMCA agents. Bam, people don't get screwed over as much by the copyright industry.

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