Simon Phipps (webmink)
-
Important new EFF campaign - "Help Protect Gadget Jailbreakers and Video Artists from Legal Threats": http://wmk.me/ylutVR
-
If you've enjoyed my writing in the last year, please vote for me in the opensource.com People's Choice Award 2011: http://wmk.me/xN5M3Z
-
GOP chairman shelves Stop Online Piracy Act too: http://wmk.me/xaEVL6 < What a day!
-
US Senate leader postpones PIPA vote in response to protests: http://wmk.me/xloexP
-
Why SOPA and PIPA are bad for open source: http://wmk.me/z8CDEA [by me, on CWUK]
-
The petition to the White House to veto SOPA/PIPA now has over 51,000 signatures - no need to stop now though ;-) http://wh.gov/DfY
-
Isn't this like how Scientology got started?
-
Coming to FOSDEM? If you're not familiar with it, here's an overview of Europe's most important open source event: http://wmk.me/zzlJqa
-
The petition to the White House to veto SOPA and PIPA is now only 1750 signatures short of 50,000 - we can do it: http://wh.gov/DfY
-
Yale law professor Jack Balkin: #SOPA "enables a system of private prior restraint," violates the 1st Amendment https://eff.org/r.2NC
-
Could Mozilla's new open source license bridge the divide between copyleft and permissive licensing? http://wmk.me/xQsWdc [by me, on CWUK]
-
If you'll be at FOSDEM, come and hear how OSI is changing: http://wmk.me/yhp0ZT
-
Al Gore comes out against #SOPA, says it will "threaten the vibrancy and freedom of the Internet." https://eff.org/r.5Nr [video]
-
The petition to the White House to veto SOPA & PIPA has 46,000 signatures but there's still time to add more. http://wh.gov/DfY
-
The UK government asked Google for data on 1443 users in the first half of 2011, got ~ 2/3: http://wmk.me/xWgW3E
-
Six Free Software Packages to Load on Your New PC: http://wmk.me/uehvtk (pass this to a friend!)
-
Breaking news: appeals court revives Jewel v NSA, EFF's challenge to government's massive spying program https://eff.org/r.N7b
-
Yet another on-topic post starting "Please excuse the cross-posting..." I never get that. If OK, don't apologize; if not OK, don't do it.
-
Merry Christmas from The Document Foundation: http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/12/22/merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year/ !libo !tdf
-
“If these companies are so clueless about technology they think SOPA is a good idea how could they be good investors?” http://wmk.me/tV0NtQ