The world-wide adoption of a decentralized network that connects everything creates continuous technical, social and policy challenges that no one could have foreseen in 1969. Even as we take the Net for granted, the way we do the air that we breathe, decisions are being made by policy-makers, technologists and end-users that shape its future.
The temporary shutdown in Egypt of Internet and other telecommunication services, as well as similar interruptions in other Middle East countries experiencing large-scale protests and rebellions, has galvanized hackers and human rights activists as well as U.S. foreign policy makers. The consequences may be not be what anyone expected.
Protesters fed up with political repression, corruption and poverty (particularly recent food price inflation) toppled the government of Tunisia. They threaten to do the same in other countries throughout the Mideast as pundits hail the "Twitter and Facebook revolution." But repressive governments have as much compunction about shutting down communication services as they do about torturing dissidents.
El G Grande nails down many of the breaking stories that are key to seeing beyond the curtain of gubment, that help us understand the difference between a free society and the government.
Stephen Smith of A Beginner's Guide to Freedom talks to Gard about things like the Terrorist Expatration Act, the new financial regulation bill and how it could monitor ALL of your electronic transactions, the Einstein data miner, the Enemy Belligerent Act, and more.
Remember the Talking Heads when they were great? Recall the line, "same as it ever was..." Well, that's that the Obama Administration is when it comes to civil liberties. Funny how we're not hearing about it from the pop media, isn't it.
"People don't know what fusion centers are," says Catherine Bleish, who was the opening speaker at the 2010 New Hampshire Liberty Forum on March 19.
The census -- like so many government programs -- has grown far beyond what the framers of our Constitution intended. The invasive nature of the current census raises serious questions about how and why government will use the collected information. It also demonstrates how the federal bureaucracy consistently encourages citizens to think of themselves in terms of groups, rather than as individual Americans.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will announce Friday that it is dropping a controversial plan to track livestock.
An error in a national criminal record database cost Eschol Amelia Studnitz her job.
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