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Free Culture topics in News from around the world. February.

Free Culture news around the world: United States: Restating the obvious with facts. The Coverity Scan: 2011 Open Source Integrity Report, which can be found here, highlights how Open Source code is of higher quality than Proprietary software. The average density of defects per one thousand lines of code for Open Source software is 0.64, …

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Modern times

What Twitter did, geoblocking tweets in specific countries in order to respect the local law, is at first glance an intolerable right which an entity asserts itself. There is a wind of censorship blowing over the beautiful landscapes of the web. Let’s be honest, not always would you want to share moments of your life …

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Twitter blocking access to certain tweets in particular countries. Censuring speech positively. Protect the open internet

Internet and politics are now more interconnected than ever. Certain aspects of it jump up in the everyday life of millions of people. Twitteris without doubt one of those – but until a certain point. In Italy, people who consider themselves with a fair amount of digital technical skills, and to good reason, see apparently …

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On Megavideo from around the world

This is a short collection of posters and banners that I found on my Facebook News ticker after Megavideo was brought down. In no way this gallery wants to promote infringing copyright or present the view of all the SFC movement, it is just a reflection on the global impact of the take down.  Enjoy!

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Hello World!

This seems like a fitting way to introduce the Students for Free Culture – Europe website, let me know what you think of the design because content is yet to come.  We are planning a conference for February or March of 2012 (this mostly depends on venue and speaker availability).  Take a look around the …

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