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"By creating legal uncertainty for the Internet operators, ACTA will force them to bend under the pressure of entertainment industries. ACTA will compell Internet service providers to filter and remove content and services, turning them into private police and justice auxiliaries. We cannot tolerate that restrictions to fundamental rights and freedoms be imposed by private actors. Such a modification of criminal law by governments themselves, in total opacity, shows how much the people behind ACTA hate democracy."

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Jérémie Zimmermann

spokesperson for the citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net

Tags: /ACTA /Internet neutrality /internet /copyright /democracy

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"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

— Mike Godwin

Tags: /funny /internet /debates /nazis /hitler

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"While the impact of network neutrality obligations on network investment is likely negligible — or even positive — the absence of nondiscrimination protections will have a substantial negative impact on investments made in the content and applications markets. Currently, the Internet is an open platform that provides online innovators with a high degree of predictability about a major segment of their business. An innovator knows that she can develop a new idea or application, and that it will work on any end-user’s Internet-connected device. Without network neutrality, this certainty is lost. Losing network neutrality could badly undercut the current investment in applications and services — a sector of our economy much larger than the network infrastructure itself."

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S. Derek Turner, research Director at Free Press

(via La Quadrature du Net : FINDING THE BOTTOM LINE: The Truth About Network Neutrality & Investment)

Tags: /internet neutrality /internet /politics

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T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M »

Great webpage that files ancient textfiles from the early internet. Perfect for killing time…

From the page:

On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files, containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional punctuation mark).

On deeper inspection, of course, this isn’t quite the case. What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980’s textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day.

(via Coding Horror)

Tags: /internet /history /textfiles

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