These are subjectively highlighted excerpts from the well researched Vanity Fair May 2012 article “In the Battles of SOPA and PIPA, who should Control the Internet” By Michael Joseph Gross, reposted here with a comment, some pictures and a mischievous cartoon. This year, in the month of December, Diplomats from 193 countries will converge at the Read more…

A collection of documents recently published by Wikileaks casts a light on surveillance vendors who sell intrusive monitoring technology to governments and law enforcement agencies. This growing industry—which serves countries around the world—offers the ability to monitor entire populations and circumvent the privacy and security safeguards built into conventional consumer technology. In an arstechnica report Read more…

Internet was on strike on January 18 in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act. The public participation online and on the streets was huge. U.S. Congress observed all these developments, paid attention to the public opinion and is postponing the votes on SOPA and PIPA and has agreed to revisit both bills. Internet Society Read more…

Internet goes on strike — blackout everywhere. This Wed Jan 18, many of your favorites sites will be unavailable to you to stop web censorship. Tell everyone, petition even more sites to join.  http://sopastrike.com/ …

The Indian government, which this year already passed new content-removal rules for websites, now wants to take it a step further and censor some of the most-used websites like Google and Facebook — before the people of India even get to see the content! India’s Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal is asking internet and social media Read more…