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…

The recent Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), considered and eventually abandoned by the US Congress after rancorous debate earlier this year, proposed giving judges the power to cut off American access to particular websites. Under the initial version of the bill, judges would have been able order Internet service providers to use only crude tools Read more…

  For all the talk of SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/TPP, there’s another much bigger threat to “the Internet as we know it.” It’s a bunch of countries who are seeking to use the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to create a top-down regulatory scheme for the Internet. # ITU has made persistent attempts to take over many of Read more…

Internet Society has written to the European Parliament about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). In its letter addressed to European Parliament Internet Society says that ministers could use the time between now and official ratification at the end of June to carefully consider the treaty and what it means for the internet. The letter follows Read more…

Slovenia’s ambassador to Japan, miss Helena Drnovsek Zorko, who signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has now apologized and called for mass demonstrations to protest what she’s done. On Thursday, 26th January, 2012, I signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on behalf of the Republic of Slovenia, following the directive and authorisation of the Slovenian government. Read more…