I am reproducing a message posted in the Chapter mailing list yesterday on the SOPA Strike: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261, is abill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011. The bill, if made law, would expand the ability of U.S. Read more…

Summary: The White House has released an official statement against SOPA in its current form, but the battle of anti-piracy isn’t over yet… It appears the massive response from the public has made a difference. Today, people are waking up to emails in their inbox from the White House in response to two particular anti-SOPA (Stop Read more…

(This article was quoted in the NetNeutrality list of Lauren Weinstein and is reproduced as published in the Sun light Foundation Blog) The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)  [of the US Government] has a bit of a conundrum. Following an unfavorable court ruling on the extent of the Commission’s powers to regulate Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Read more…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates its 20th Anniversay on July 10, 2010. To commemorate this event, it has released this animation: This animation depicts three key issues that bother the average Internet user: 3. Onerous user agreements. Users regularly click through monstrous blocks of legalese in order to use the most popular web sites and Read more…

The German IPv6 Council invites applications for the INTERNATIONAL IPv6 APPLICATION CONTEST 2010 INTERNATIONAL IPv6 APPLICATION CONTEST 2010 http://www.ipv6council.de/contest2010/ The objectives of this contest are the generation of ideas and applications, which help determine how to introduce IPv6, the internet of the next generation, on a large scale and use it effectively. The contest also Read more…