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Ten Years After the “Internet Blackout” | EFFector 34.1

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 01/21/2022 - 9:33am

I'm posting the Electronic Frontier Foundation's entire latest EFFector newsletter below; as a recipient I think that's permitted. A bit of good stuff here, including google coming out with a 2g blocker which will interfere with Stingray and similar tech.

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EFFector 34.1
Ten Years After the “Internet Blackout”
In our 781st issue:

Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement

Submitted by JtC on Sat, 02/17/2018 - 11:34am

This could change the internet as we know it.

Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement

Rejecting years of settled precedent, a federal court in New York has ruled [PDF] that you could infringe copyright simply by embedding a tweet in a web page. Even worse, the logic of the ruling applies to all in-line linking, not just embedding tweets. If adopted by other courts, this legally and technically misguided decision would threaten millions of ordinary Internet users with infringement liability.

GOP Whacking Internet Freedom

Submitted by hungeski on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 10:57pm

Image: Without Net Neutrality - Blocked! (The Paragraph)

Simply stated at whatisnetneutrality.org: "Net Neutrality is the principle that the company that connects you to the internet does not get to control what you do on the internet."

That principle protects one's freedom to communicate and to choose information sources, without being throttled or blocked by one's internet service provider (ISP). In this information age, that freedom becomes more-and-more widely recognized as a right. And it becomes more-and-more crucial for citizens of a constitutional democracy in keeping informed and active.