From: here

Will American society continue to exclude ordinary citizens from important choices about the design and development of new technologies and information systems? Most likely there will continue to be unequal power over decisions about what is built and why, intensive efforts to hem in and control people’s lives in both work and consumerism, and present our future as something nonnegotiable.

Businesses will demonstrate accomplishment in what could and should be choices only to be decided by public investigation and debate - a disguised form of economic plunder. They conceal their strategy by designs that appeal to individual gratification which complicate social issues. Those with the understanding of what is happening must choose to protest or at least inform groups willing to take action on behalf of the community.

From: Publico.es

Rebelion.org is a means of information-their editors prefer to call it "counter" - composed of a dozen volunteers, as can be read on its website, "published the news that are not considered important by traditional media." Today, one of his colleagues had noticed that Wikipedia has blocked access to this newspaper since the free encyclopedia.

One of those responsible for Rebellion, Carlos Martinez, explains: "We reached an email from one of our colleagues is that, while publisher usual articles on Wikipedia. He told us that, after writing a text, when tried to put a link to our site, the program prevented him from saving it. "

The editing system of the free encyclopedia, which allows the provision of Internet, check all pages you want to put a reference to an article and compares them with a blacklist of sites. If you get the list prevents save the article. The cause appears as block reasons is that Rebellion is considered "non-neutral source nor verifiable."

"We are not neutral"

With out taking sides on the matter and only focusing on the fact that yahoo will give confidential information to a government, in this particular case to a foreign government .. but foreign or not, people needs to know or start to care about all this tools they use in the internet with out thinking in the political seeds they are helping create giving this corporations their power in popularity and market share.. think twice before using yahoo/google/myspace and such corporate manipulatory tools and such..

From amnesty international:
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sending an email.

Support online freedom of speech by asking your Representative to support H.R. 275, the Global Online Freedom Act.

from Dailyradical

Madrid .- The world of piracy is extensive. Especially when the world of computers involved. Within this field that lies beyond the line of legality, but that many dare to exceed, is that of piracy of pay-TV broadcasters. That question must respond Murdoch before a jury this month in California, in a process that, strangely, nothing discussed in the United States.


The case is worthy of a Hollywood movie. Its protagonists include former secret agents, pirate Canadian television, 'hackers' Bulgarians and Germans, emails stolen and the mysterious suicide of a' hacker 'Berlin, who had been both by the Murdoch company shortly before his death, according to the Web describes Wired.

from Dailyradical

In the Information Technology world, the Free Software Foundation is the organization that struggles against the drive to convert knowledge itself into a capitalist commodity known as Intellectual Property. The emergence of Linux, the fastest growing computer operating system (OS), has done much to validate the FSF work. Today, the FSF and the Linux movement have given rise to an increasing number of politically active programmers, including the Progressive Programmers League, based in the United States.

How It All Began...

Computer programmer Richard M. Stallman left MIT and launched the GNU Project in 1984. His goal was to develop a complete UNIX style operating system free of the restrictions associated with commercial software. UNIX is the industrial strength operating system (OS) that dominates servers on the Internet and in the corporate sector.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a non-profit charity that distributes the GNU Project’s software and accepts donations to keep the Project alive, was founded in 1985.

from Dailyradical

In recent months, has been word of mouth a name: "Facebook." Facebook is
the name of a Web site on the Internet that serves as a social tool to
connect people (www.facebook.com). In this type of page is what you call
Social Network Sites (SRS).

Facebook serves to endless uses. It serves to connect the Web fellow
class of the College, which serves to connect old friends physically
separated by distance and the passing of life; serves to contact
prostitut @ s (say that the governor of the state of New York contacted
a prostitute through a BSS is called MySpace); serves to play, and, also
serves to organize a way of doing politics. Facebook, for example, was
channel-organization worldwide-from demonstrations against the FARC that
took place on February 4, 2008. Currently serves as a space for
organizing demonstrations against President Hugo Chavez to be held on
April 11, 2008. It also has spaces for the help and support of the
candidacy of Leopoldo Lopez and to contact people who "hate Mario Silva."

What are many of us but artists, and what do we do but create? We can function in the world of suits and clocks, but to do so we have to press ourselves. We suffer and strain for the art, sure, but no more than any parent does so for their child – no more than is worthwhile for what we get to experience in return. A parent does not need to force upon themselves the task of being a guardian to their children, certainly not anyone intended to raise young in the first place – we who were born knowing there was naught to do but create, simply do so. It is the most basic function of our existence… the action we revert to when there is nothing else being imposed upon our will… it is our default application. This community, and the rare few like it - here we can breath or suffocate. Whichever we choose though, it is a gift, because, we got that choice.

http://www.dailyradical.org/knowledge/Venezuela_and_the_Hackers_Revoluti...

The Third International Forum on Free Knowledge was recently held in Maracaibo, Venezuela, bringing together many people interested in the development of free software worldwide. One reason Venezuela chose to host this event is that, in January 2006, their new free software law came into effect, which mandates that all government agencies migrate to free software over a two-year period. I was invited to speak about the use of free software in telecommunications. Many of the events and presentations at the event were, much like mine, of a rather technical nature. From the many technical people present I was able to draw my own understanding of how Venezuela’s economic revolution was being implemented.

The People’s Ministry of Economics

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Scientology_threatens_Wikileaks_over_secret_cu...

The cult of Scientology has one again tried to censor one of their online critics, but it's not going to work this time. In the past, Scientology has abused the DMCA to force site owners to take down "copyrighted" internal information from their religious organization. They have also been known to use murder and some people have had to flee the country to escape their grasp. I have taken on Scientology before on a small scale, and they are no ordinary foe. But this attack on Wikileaks is unacceptable, and those who wish to stop the free flow of infomation must be held accountable for their actions and said information must be freed.

Internationally the word is spreading about the US Online censorship
on Youtube, Facebook and government like this article from theNewYork Times

The blacklist of sites associated with Cuba in OFAC

An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case - [FSF.US]

Harald Welte and Groklaw announced as winners of the FSF's annual free software awards - [FSF.US]

Comrades, it has happen again!
DIGG this story HERE
this is truly dreadful, and a grim precedent!
They just tried this last week with Wikileaks --
probably the people that they are harrassing can
get their domain names registered overseas, but
you can see the path we're going down here...
You can find the original story from the NYTimesHERE
And another story HERE
I will like to make a call to action, spread the word and post this links on as many mailing list and sites as you can, for more information subscribe to our World Wide Digital Freedoms mailing list. Feel free to sent us your links and information about the case.

In solidarity
ReK2