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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 11:41 AM EDT |
No it ain't! That is the peril of slavery. If you can't oppose your masters
without litigation you are truly slaves.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 01:03 PM EDT |
It’s been public knowledge for a number of years that the American
Legislative Exchange Council is responsible for writing model legislation for
major industries and then pushing them, through Republican lawmakers, into
statehouses nationwide. Until these model bills pop up on legislative agendas,
however, little is known about the group’s legislation penning.On Friday,
following a two-year campaign by watchdog groups, ALEC published hundreds of its
model bills online. The coalition of organizations pushing for greater
transparency included the Center for Media and Democracy, ColorOfChange, Common
Cause, Greenpeace, People for the American Way, Progress Now and a variety of
labor organizations. The full list of model bills is available here. It includes template
bills pertaining to charter schools, climate (mis)education, union-busting right
to work bills, workplace drug testing laws and more. Now the watchdog
coalition will push for ALEC to reveal the identities of its corporate
clients.
Natasha Lennard, Salon[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 05:22 PM EDT |
DRMed content you paid for will vanish. Got it? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 11:12 PM EDT |
In a nutshell, then: if you press a button labelled "publish" or
"submit" or "tweet" while in the UK, these rules as written will treat you as a
newspaper proprietor, and make you vulnerable to an arbitration procedure where
the complainer pays nothing, but you have to pay to defend yourself, and that
will potentially have the power to fine you, force you to censor your posts, and
force you to print "corrections" and "apologies" in a manner that the regulator
will get to specify.
Cory
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 04:27 AM EDT |
English and Scottish lawyers are recommending a review of
the law on contracts with special attention being paid to 'hidden
charges'.
What is especially interesting is the last paragraph which draws
attention to software EULAs. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 11:33 AM EDT |
Salon is reporting that the Supremes have issued their judgement on the Wiley book import case and have upheld
the doctrine of first sale. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 12:39 PM EDT |
Join our campaigns for
Internet freedom!
"CISPA --the bill that would
end our online privacy -- is back in Congress despite public outrage and
warnings from experts. This bill won't keep us safe from cyber attacks, but it
will let companies share our personal information with the government. We
stopped it once. Ready to stop it again?" link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 01:06 PM EDT |
Toronto Hackathon
Saw this
on Twitter, thought someone here might be
interested.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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