VIDEO: Kim Dotcom – Mr President #megaupload #copyright #netfreedom
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has released a new tune ‘Mr President’ – a message addressed to President Obama. Video below:
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VIDEO: CENSORSHIP 2020: The Future of Free Speech Online #censorship #netfreedom @isocdc
Jun 25 2012: The Internet Society’s DC Chapter event CENSORSHIP 2020: The Future of Free Speech Online – was webcast live on the Internet Society Chapters webcasting channel. The event, hosted by the Communication, Culture and Technology Program of Georgetown University, will take the form of an informal discussion with six people fighting for free speech on the Internet in their country–and around the world – who have been declared the Internet Freedom Fellows 2012. This event is a direct follow- up to “Global Networks, Individual Freedoms” held at the United Nations in Geneva on Jun 20 2012.What: CENSORSHIP 2020: The Future of Free Speech Online
When: Monday June 25 2012 5.30pm-7pm EDT | 1330-1500 UTC
Where: Georgetown University, Washington DC
Twitter: @ISOCDC | #censorship | #netfreedom
Speakers:
*Dlshad Othman (Syria), an activist and IT engineer providing Syrians with digital security tools
*Pranesh Prakash (India), a blogger and cyberlaw expert who is promoting a free Internet and online freedom of speech.
*Koundjoro Gabriel Kambou (Burkina Faso), a journalist at Lefaso.net, is promoting human rights, democracy particularly among young people.
*Sopheap Chak (Cambodia), the Deputy Director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and one of Cambodia ’s leading bloggers.
*Andres Azpurua (Venezuela) has trained 300 youth on using Web 2.0 tools to publicize human rights violations.
*Emin Milli (Azerbaijan), a writer who is using YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to spread information about human rights violations
Moderator:
*Ambassador (ret.) Richard Kauzlarich, Deputy Director, Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC), George Mason University
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TODAY: Circumvention Tools Hackfest in NYC #netfreedom
The Open Internet Tools Project has partnered with FreedomBox, InformSec and ISOC-NY to host a circumvention tools hackfest in NYC right before HOPE. The hackfest started yesterday and there are still three days left to plan, code and learn! If you want to hack on anti-censorship or anti-surveillance tools, bring your project, bring your skills and bring your friends. This event will be focused on writing code and solving design problems. We won’t have any long presentations (there will be enough of those at HOPE), though we will have lightning talks and will give away a door prize or two.Where: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, 116th and Amsterdam (Room 546)
When: July 9 – 12, 10 am
Who: Privacy and free communication hackers like you
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Vint Cerf speaks out on Internet Censorship at #F2C and in @NYTimes #wcit #itrs #netfreedom
In a New York Times Op-Ed today, Keep the Internet Open Vint Cerf expands on one of the themes of his keynote earlier in the week at the F2C:Freedom to Connect Conference (see video below). He notes the increasing tendency of governments to censor the Internet, and that Russia and several other countries intend to use the upcoming ITU WCIT meeting in Dubai in December to push for new regulations that will severely impact the Internet’s independence, and the freedoms of its users. Vint notes that this new regulatory regime is being constructed clandestinely and will be voted by countries, not netizens. He concludes:
The decisions taken in Dubai in December have the potential to put government handcuffs on the Net. To prevent that — and keep the Internet open and free for the next generations — we need to prevent a fundamental shift in how the Internet is governed.
I encourage you to take action now: Insist that the debate about Internet governance be transparent and open to all stakeholders.
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- 5/18 Katitza Rodriguez Hey ITU Member States: No More Secrecy, Release the Treaty Proposals (EFF)
- 5/24 Milton Mueller THREAT ANALYSIS OF ITU’S WCIT (PART 1): HISTORICAL CONTEXT (IGP Alert)
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Webcast: INET Tallinn – Weds. May 23 – The Future of the Internet – the Estonian Perspective #netfreedom #copyright #eesti
On Weds May 23 the Internet Society will host a regional INET Conference INET Tallinn. The conference will focus on copyright infringement on the Internet and freedom of speech. It will be webcast live on the Internet Society Chapters webcast channel. Speakers include Frédéric Donck, European Regional Bureau, Internet Society. English translation will be available on the live webcast, but NOT on the archive. Estonia is UTC+3 which means 7 hours ahead of NYC, so the conference starts at 5.15am EDT, and the meaty copyright panels start an hour later at 6.15am EDT.What: INET Tallinn – How to shape the future of the Internet. The Estonian Perspective
Where: Tallinn, Estonia
When: Wednesday May 23 2012 1215-1720EEST | 0915-1415UTC | 0515-1015EDT
Agenda: http://www.internetsociety.org/events/inet-tallinn
Webcast: http://www.livestream.com/internetsocietychapters
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RFC: The Piracy Crusade #SOPA #CISPA #ACTA #copyright #netfreedom
Aram Sinnreich writes:
I’m currently working on a new book, titled The Piracy Crusade. It’s essentially a continuation of the arguments I made on behalf of LimeWire, as an expert witness for the defense in that case (http://bit.ly/k9KYwL). The aim is to examine and critique the RIAA/IFPI narrative that lays the blame for the music industry’s economic woes on free sharing, and to explore the consequences of laws and policies such as SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and CISPA, which are pushed as panaceas to the piracy problem.
I’m sure many in the ISOC community have strong opinions on this subject, so I’d love their feedback. I’m posting chapter drafts freely under a CC license on http://PiracyCrusade.com. There’s a WordPress comments platform, so feedback will be visible to all readers of the book (feel free to email me privately as well). I’ll also address any substantive comments in the final, printed version of the book (due out next year from University of Massachusetts Press), and give a shout-out to all commenters in the Acknowledgments section.Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Thanks,
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WSIS Forum 2012 under way in Geneva #WSIS #netfreedom
The World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2012 is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland from May 14 to 18 2012. At the event, stakeholders from throughout the world discuss strategies for promoting human rights on the Internet. Freedom of expression is a core value of the Geneva Plan of Action, a long-term vision to emerge from the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in Tunis in 2005. The discussion at WSIS Forum 2012 will revolve around the human rights implications of information and communication technologies, and inform the WSIS review process leading up to 2015.The WSIS Forum 2012 is jointly organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
What: WSIS Forum 2012
Where: ILO Conference Center, Geneva
When: May 14-16 2012 (Geneva is UTC+2, EDT+6)
Agenda: http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Agenda/DraftAgenda.aspx
Remote participation: http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Agenda/RemoteParticipationRooms.aspx
Webcast: http://www.itu.int/ibs/WSIS/201205forum/
Twitter: #WSIS-
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A list of Internet Society workshops and speakers: https://www.internetsociety.org/wsis-2012-internet-society-workshops-and-speakers-0
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Video: Join the Tor Network #netfreedom @torproject
Tactical Tech created a video to encourage people to join the Tor Network.
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@NewYorker “THE WAR FOR THE WEB” event Monday @JoesPubNYC w/ @cshirky, @superwuster #netfreedom
On Monday Feb 27 2012, The New Yorker “the Big Story” series presents THE WAR FOR THE WEB at Joes Pub NYC – a conversation about Internet piracy and free speech, featuring Lori Andrews (“I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did”), Pablo Chavez (Public Policy Director, Google), Clay Shirky (“Cognitive Surplus”), and Tim Wu (“The Master Switch”). Moderated by the New Yorker senior editor Nicholas Thompson.The event is sold out but a limited number of tickets will be available at the door fifteen minutes before start time. A recording of the event will appear on newyorker.com.
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Video: #FreedomBox Hackfest February 2012 @FreedomBoxFndn w/ #freenetworkfoundation #netfreedom
On February 18 2012 the Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) participated in the first ever FreedomBox Hackfest, held at the Columbia School of Law in New York City. The FreedomBox is an initiative “to create a network of personal servers to protect privacy during daily life, maintain beachheads of free network access during times of political instability, and open lines of communication during natural disasters.” The project is a direct consequence of the “Freedom in the Cloud” talk that Eben Moglen gave two years, almost to the day, earlier for ISOC-NY.
One foundational issue is the question of how the FreedomBoxes will identify themselves, discover their peers, and know which ones to trust. In our our first video we see a pair of presentations, one by Nic Daley, another by Isaac Wilder, that explore the problem.
ISOC-NY President David Solomonoff took the opportunity to sit down with FreedomBox Executive Director James Vasile to get some background on the project.
A contingent from the The Free Network Foundation was present at the hackfest and, indeed, a prototype of their “Freedom Tower” was in operation to provide participants with connectivity. FNF based local wireless networks, combined with FreedomBox distribution, can be the foundation of powerful community-based autonomous systems. David Solomonoff talked to Isaac Wilder and Marcus Eagan to find out more about the organization, and their forthcoming pilot project in Detroit.
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