Tag Archives: PIPA

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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ACTA’s EU chief Kader Arif resigns in protest

You may have heard a lot about SOPA and PIPA, legislation proposed by the U.S. congress and senate respectively, to regulate the internet. Fortunately, amid widespread campaigns from the internet community, these proposals have been put on the shelf (for now). Unfortunately, ACTA, an international agreement on intellectual property which would have similarly disastrous effects …

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Megavideo and Megaupload taken down by US government, millions lose access to culture.

Tomas Milianis an actor of Italian B-movies of seventies and eighties. He is a police inspector in a turbulent Rome, where criminal activity, political terrorism and old Fiat cars are the background for his enquiries and investigations. Over the years these have become cult movies sometimes shown by linear TV channels in the summer, late …

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