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The SPEAK FREE Act

dimanche 31 mai 2015 à 14:00

The SPEAK FREE Act would protect Americans from frivolous lawsuits aimed to censor them.

We also need protection from frivolous DMCA takedown demands aimed to censor us.

Charter-Time Warner Cable merger

dimanche 31 mai 2015 à 14:00

News Flash: The Charter-Time Warner Cable Merger Will Benefit Execs, Burden the Rest of Us.

Arrested for cheating at video games

dimanche 31 mai 2015 à 14:00

In Japan, players are getting arrested for cheating at video games. So are developers of cheating software.

This is very dangerous, since next they will prosecute people for developing software to break DRM — as the US did to Dmitri Sklyarov.

If you have a program running on your computer, you must be free to change it.

Security research

dimanche 31 mai 2015 à 14:00

Proposed export restrictions for information about security holes could put security researchers in prison.

I think there should be some laws about how to give notice about security holes, but they should be designed so that honest security research is not criminalized.

I am disappointed that the article uses the term "open source" which is a way to talk about free software and downplay its implications about human rights.

Arms deals for Clinton Foundation donors

dimanche 31 mai 2015 à 14:00

Countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation got approval for arms deals from Secretary of State Clinton.