Police Raid School Teacher for Uploading History Book for Students
posted 05/21/2013, 4:13 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A teacher received a huge shock last week after uploading a copy of a book to his website that offers free educational resources for students. The Latvian publisher behind the work, a $4.00 history book, complained to the authorities which resulted in the teacher being raided by the police. During interrogation the teacher learned that his mistake could cost him dearly – two years in jail, forced labor, or a fine.... (more) |
Parent Punishes Kid for Triggering a “Six Strikes” Piracy Alert
posted 05/21/2013, 4:12 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The “six strikes” copyright alert system has claimed its first victory today. Tipped off by a copyright alert, a father found out that his kid was secretly sharing pirated material. The deviant behavior did not go unpunished and the parent in question ordered the teen to write a “note of apology” to the copyright holder, or else.... (more) "No child of mine will undermine legacy industries' outdated business models!" |
NTSB recommends lowering blood alcohol level that constitutes drunken driving to .05
posted 05/14/2013, 9:18 PM (NBC News)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board voted to recommend to states that they lower the blood-alcohol content that constitutes drunken driving.
Currently, all 50 states have set a BAC level of .08, reflecting the percentage of alcohol, by volume, in the blood. If a driver is found to have a BAC level of .08 or above, he or she is subject to arrest and prosecution.
The NTSB recommends dropping that to a BAC level of .05. ... (more) "Our officers are having too much trouble with the math involved with .08" /sarcasm
This is going to criminalize another MASSIVE swath of the population. Truth is the limit should be abolished, simple reckless driving charges cover reckless driving, some people can handle alcohol and drive just fine, others can't. The crime is putting other people's lives in danger, not drinking evil wicked Jesus juice. - Chris |
State Department orders firm to remove 3D-printed guns web blueprints
posted 05/10/2013, 12:55 PM (The Guardian)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 The US government has blocked a Texas-based company from distributing details online of how to make a plastic gun using a 3-D printer.
The ban, by the State Department citing international arms control law, comes just days after the world's first such gun was successfully fired.
Defense Distributed, the company that made the prototype, stated on Twitter that its project had "gone dark" at the instigation of the government.
The company is run by ... (more) |
IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups
posted 05/10/2013, 12:54 PM (Associated Press)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status, a top IRS official said Friday.
Organizations were singled out because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups.... (more) |
U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case
posted 05/05/2013, 3:01 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The U.S. Government has just submitted its objections to Megaupload’s motion to dismiss the case against the company. Megaupload’s lawyers have pointed out that the Department of Justice is trying to change the law to legitimize the destruction of Megaupload. However, the Government refutes this assertion and asks the court to deny Megaupload’s motion, fearing that otherwise the entire case may fall apart. ... (more) |
Texas: Court Finds Breath Mints Are Evidence Of DUI
posted 04/29/2013, 11:15 PM (TheNewspaper)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Use of breath mints can be considered evidence a driver is intoxicated, according to a divided Texas Court of Appeals ruling delivered earlier this month. The three-judge panel made the decision in the case of limousine service driver Robert Richardson who was stopped in Lewisville, Texas on August 25, 2010 while transporting customers from the airport.... (more) |
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Thursday April 18th, 2013
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The real cost of selling juvenile records for pennies per name
posted 04/16/2013, 3:08 AM (MyNorthwest.com)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
A teenager with an arrest record is worth 69 cents to the state of Washington.
That's how much the state makes, per individual, for selling juvenile offenders' records to companies that do background checks.
Washington is one of eight states that make juvenile records public, and one of only three states that sell the information.
After being open to public scrutiny for the past 35 years, most juvenile offender records would be sealed under a bill pas... (more) |
Google Relaxes DMCA Takedown Restrictions, Eyes Abuse
posted 04/12/2013, 7:14 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Following requests from some copyright holders, search giant Google has relaxed its DMCA restrictions allowing for more takedown notices to be processed. As a result the number of URLs being removed from Google continues to shoot up, surpassing the record-breaking 4.4 million mark this week. Both Google and the RIAA are happy with the progress being made but the former says it will keep a close eye on abusive practices.... (more) |
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Thursday April 11th, 2013
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New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Seized
posted 04/11/2013, 2:14 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In anticipation of having their Swedish domain name seized, this week the crew of The Pirate Bay took evasive action. In the early hours of Tuesday morning they switched to two Greenland-based domains, but already the plan is starting to unravel. The telecoms company in charge of the .GL TLD says it will now block the domains after deciding they will be used illegally.... (more) |
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Wednesday April 10th, 2013
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Police Confiscate Man's Guns Over Son's Water Pistol
posted 04/10/2013, 3:13 AM (Infowars)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In the latest example of anti-gun hysteria, police in New York State confiscated a man’s firearms and revoked his pistol license after his son threatened to use a water pistol against bullies who had taunted his friends at school.
Image: Wikimedia Commons
Commack resident John Mayer is now pursuing legal action after Suffolk County Police visited his home and threatened to embarrass him in front of his neighbors before confiscating Mayer’s handguns and rifles, firea... (more) |
Cox Targets Pirates With "10+ Strikes" Program
posted 04/09/2013, 2:12 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Preferring to handle file-sharing in its own way, Cox was one of the few large ISPs that refused to take part in the United States’ “six-strikes” scheme. Cox operates its own 10+ strikes program featuring warnings and temporary Internet restrictions in the early stages. The Internet provider stops short of detailing the end-game but if earlier statements are to believed, repeat infringers are likely to have their accounts terminated.
With 3.5 million Internet subscribers Cox is ... (more) |
California Court Rules It Illegal To Check Maps On Your Phone While Driving
posted 04/08/2013, 12:49 AM (Techdirt)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
For years, we've discussed the problematic nature of "distracted driving" laws that seek to outlaw things like talking on your phone or texting while driving. It is not that we don't think these behaviors are dangerous. It seems clear that those activities can take one's attention away from driving and potentially increase the likelihood of an accident by a significant amount. However, the laws are often broad and inconsistent -- and, worse, they can have serious unintended consequence... (more) |
Feds Identify 300,000 Americans as Terrorists
posted 04/08/2013, 12:45 AM (Activist Post)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Do you hate paying taxes? Are you fighting foreclosure? Do you feel like no one should be allowed to commit violence against you and don't always blindly follow the commands of the authorities? Do you film encounters with police or believe gold makes better currency than Federal Reserve Notes? Well you might be part of a domestic terrorism movement and not even know it.... (more) |
Feds' New Cell Phone Spying Device Raising Privacy Concerns
posted 04/08/2013, 12:45 AM (StoptheDrugWar.org)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Blocked by a Supreme Court decision from using GPS tracking devices without a warrant, federal investigators and other law enforcement agencies are turning to a new, more powerful and more threatening technology in their bid to spy more freely on those they suspect of drug crimes. That's leading civil libertarians, electronic privacy advocates, and even some federal judges to raise the alarm about a new surveillance technology whose use has yet to be taken up definitively by the federal courts.... (more) |
NinjaVideo Founder Freed From Prison
posted 04/08/2013, 12:44 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
After being sent to prison early 2012 for running NinjaVideo, the first site to fall victim to the U.S. Government’s ‘Operation in Our Sites’, founder Hana ‘Phara’ Beshara is now back in society. Fresh from peeling potatoes for 12 cents an hour and learning how to knit, the self-styled ‘queen’ of Ninja is living at a halfway house and thinking about how she’s going to pay $210,000 damages to the MPAA. Maybe an MTV documentary and reality shows hold the key...... (more) |
Untappable Apple or DEA Disinformation?
posted 04/05/2013, 1:14 AM (Cato Institute)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Tech news site CNET has an interesting, but I suspect somewhat misleading, story today suggesting that text messages sent via Apple’s iMessage service--an Internet-based alternative to traditional cell phone SMS text messages--are "impossible to intercept" by law enforcement. Yet that is not quite what the document on which the story is based--an "intelligence note" distributed ... (more) |
Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request
posted 04/05/2013, 1:13 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In a comical display of meta-censorship several copyright holders including 20th Century Fox and NBC Universal have sent Google takedown requests asking the search engine to take down links to takedown request they themselves sent. Google refused to comply with the movie studios requests and the “infringing” DMCA notices remain online. Meanwhile, the number of takedown notices received by Google is nearing 20 million per month.... (more) |
Pirate Bay Proxy Owner’s Bank Account Seized by Hollywood Group
posted 04/04/2013, 3:22 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Following a request from Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group BREIN, a Dutch bailiff has seized the bank account of a Pirate Bay proxy operator. The owner of the popular proxy site Kuiken.co has been involved in a legal battle with BREIN over the past months, who demand that he shuts down his website. The anti-piracy group seized the funds after the proxy owner failed to pay the penalties that were set out in two preliminary injunctions.... (more) |
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Wednesday April 3rd, 2013
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Verizon Asked to Share "Six Strikes" Alerts for BitTorrent Lawsuit
posted 04/03/2013, 1:10 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
It’s just a few weeks since the six-strikes copyright alert system was activated in the U.S. and already it’s being utilized in a civil action against an alleged BitTorrent pirate. To prepare for a trial against a Verizon subscriber, adult movie studio Malibu Media has subpoenaed the user’s ISP to hand over copies of DMCA and six-strikes notices issued to far. In addition, the copyright holder also wants to know how much bandwidth the subscriber uses each month, and what pay-per-view programs we... (more) |
Arkansas Fusion Center Admits It Spies On "Antigovernment" Groups
posted 04/01/2013, 12:14 AM (Infowars)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The federal government and its "partners" on the state and local level are not utilizing the high-tech police state apparatus locked in place in the years following the 9/11 attacks to spy on al-Qaeda terrorists. It was built to keep tabs on Americans exercising their First Amendment rights, Americans the national security state considers an existential threat.
During an interview earlier this week, the director of the Arkansas State Fusion Center, Richard Davis, said the fusion c... (more) |
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