Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
If you are traveling internationally, you may want to leave your digital anythings home on your next trip. The ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was proposed some time ago and recently leaked to WikiLeaks. From what I understand, if passed, the act will give border patrol agents the right to search your digital apparatuses for pirated or illegal copies of digital products such as songs or movies. You can view a PDF of the proposed agreement here and it is also mirrored here. Link…
Those who control the past control the future.
Those who control the present control the past.
-George Orwell - 1984
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
There is talk in the UK government to implement a database that will store the details of every phone call made, every email sent and every web page visited by British citizens in an act of anti-terrorism. Another perfect example of how global terrorism is forcing George Orwell’s prediction of the future to a frightening reality. All the while a 15-year-old in the UK is facing prosecution for using the word ‘cult’ to describe the Church of Scientology at an anti-Scientology demonstration in London earlier this month which “violates” the Public Order Act, which ‘prohibits signs which have representations or words which are threatening, abusive or insulting. I think ol’ George about hit it right on the money. Perhaps he was off by about 30 years or so however, say he was dead on, you probably wouldn’t even know anyway. Watch out for those “tele-screens”!
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