http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/21104/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/activists_aim_build_bat_signal_web <p>Alexis Ohanian, the 29-year old founder of social news site Reddit, has partnered with the online advocacy group Fight for the Future to create what they’re calling the “Internet Defense League.” Ohanian describes the project, which they plan to officially launch next month, as a “Bat-Signal for the Internet.” Any website owner can sign up on the group’s website to add a bit of code to his or her site–or receive that code by email at the time of a certain campaign–that can be triggered in the case of a political crisis like SOPA, adding an activist call-to-action to all the sites involved, suc</p> <p><a href="http://www.freetalklive.com/content/activists_aim_build_bat_signal_web" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/activists_aim_build_bat_signal_web#comments blackout call to action CISPA internet Internet Issues News Article sopa Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:03 +0000 jjschless 21637 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/goodbye_sopa_hello_cispa <p>While most folks are looking elsewhere, Congress is trying to sneak an absolutely awful "cybersecurity" bill through Congress, permitting ISPs to funnel private communications and related information back to the government without adequate privacy protections and controls. The bill does not specify which agencies ISPs could disclose customer data to, but the structure and incentives in the bill raise a very real possibility that the National Security Agency or the DOD’s Cybercommand would be the primary recipient.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/goodbye_sopa_hello_cispa#comments acta CISPA Intellectual Property