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They Paid HOW MUCH For A Pigeon?

2013-05-21T10:25:05Z

BRUSSELS — Flying high above Europe's economic crisis, a local lightning-fast pigeon called Bolt became the world's most expensive racing bird w...

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Joseph A. Palermo: Pedagogy of the Depressed

2013-04-09T19:50:48Z

Can students really be taught critical thinking, civics, and citizenship skills in a standardized format that values conformity? Will relying on MOOCs and automation in the long-term turn professors into "delivery managers" and students into automatons and passive consumers rather than citizens?

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Michal Shapiro: Classical Fusions at the Asia Society: The Knights With Wu Man

2013-02-15T15:24:00Z

The Knights have been making waves with their blend of high musicianship, adventurous programming and youthful camaraderie on stage.

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Dean Baker: Aaron Swartz, Financial Fraud and the Justice Department

2013-01-24T05:59:18Z

The Justice Department apparently wanted to send a message with its decision to prosecute Swartz while ignoring the financial fraud that fueled the housing bubble. It certainly did.

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Craig Newmark: Internet Freedom Day: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless

2013-01-18T16:09:37Z

Hey folks -- Today is Internet Freedom Day and that's a really big deal. This year, I asked folks: How does the Internet give you a voice? I got a lot of really good responses, and wanted to share some of them with you on Internet Freedom Day.

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5 Ways Your Internet Freedom Is At Risk

2013-01-18T13:37:13Z

Internet activists on Friday celebrated Internet Freedom Day, marking the one year anniversary of widespread online protests against controversial ant...

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Raymond Schillinger: Let's Talk About Internet Freedom

2013-01-17T15:50:10Z

An open and free Internet does not mean the end of business or the end of new ideas. But we desperately need our laws to catch up in order to foster, not stall, the innovation that will power our evolving modern economy.

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Family: Pioneering Internet Activist's Suicide 'A Product Of Prosecutorial Overreach'

2013-01-12T17:12:13Z

Open democracy advocate and internet pioneer Aaron Swartz was found dead Friday in an apparent suicide, flooding the digital spectrum with an outpouri...

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Craig Newmark: Get on the Internet Bus for Serious Internet Freedom

2012-09-17T11:10:33Z

Political parties are in the process of adopting what they call Internet Freedom principles. Most of both parties' platforms include really good stuff, with one snag, regarding "net neutrality."

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Edward J. Black: Internet Freedom in Democrat, Republican Platforms Is a Good Start

2012-09-11T14:25:41Z

Whether the issue of the day is copyright infringement or open Internet access, censorship or a trade agreement, what the U.S. and the rest of the world could most use is an Internet freedom platform on which to base their daily policy challenges.

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Dave Aitel: The Cybersecurity Act of 2012: Are We Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

2012-08-03T09:38:42Z

CSA is much-needed right now to protect America's critical infrastructure systems from potentially devastating and costly attacks. Unfortunately, it's unlikely to overcome its political obstacles.

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Leslie Harris: A League of Our Own

2012-07-26T15:07:50Z

Launched last week by Fight for the Future, the IDL aims to broadly distribute code that will allow its members to quickly get the word out about threats and organize the Internet to act.

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Democratic Senator Mocked For Batman Appearance

2012-07-18T16:24:39Z

WASHINGTON -- A group of progressive Internet freedom activists have created a website mocking the Batman movie appearances of Senate Judiciary Commit...

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Trade Policy Could Clarify Copyright Rules

2012-07-03T15:46:44Z

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Tuesday received cautious praise from open Internet advocates, after it released an outline for key proposal...

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Josh Levy: After SOPA: A Declaration of Internet Freedom

2012-07-01T22:32:12Z

Without the freedom to express and share what we want, our laptops, tablets and phones would be little more than 21st-century television sets.

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Sandra Aistars: Why Can't We Be Friends?

2012-06-19T10:39:58Z

While in this hyper-politicized environment it may be a good fundraising tactic to call out "friends" and "enemies" rather than to join together to find solutions, if we become entrenched in tech vs. culture camps we ultimately harm all of our causes.

Christopher Haugh: Benign Illegality

2012-06-04T18:49:37Z

Despite this generation's predilection for Internet contraband, we can easily be ushered back into the fold of legality. We have benefited from a reign of anarchy on the Internet because we are opportunistic, not delinquent.

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Internet Defense League Aims To Be the Web's 'Bat Signal' For Online Protests

2012-05-25T17:11:34Z

Back in January, thousands of websites, including Wikipedia, went dark to protest legislation in Congress aimed at combating copyright infringement. O...

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Assemblyman Says Proposed Anonymous Comment Ban 'Mischaracterized'

2012-05-25T13:52:25Z

Following the news of a proposal to ban anonymous internet comments in New York, the Internet Protection Act's main sponsor is pushing back by allegin...

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Marianne Mollmann: Internet Restrictions: How Much Should We Worry About Our Freedom of Information?

2012-05-21T12:41:49Z

From a human rights perspective, blanket restrictions on specific means of communication should always raise red flags.

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Theresa Payton: When Security and Privacy Wrestle, Who Is the Winner?

2012-04-26T17:46:22Z

There is a fight going on between security and privacy and it is your personal data and communications at stake.

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Art Brodsky: The Long and Winding Road To A Bad Call On 'Piracy'

2012-04-25T16:58:39Z

It's time for the industry to start listening to what they have been told by their audience -- that there have to be new, better and more convenient ways to get access to content.

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Cybersecurity Bill's Authors Will Add Amendments To Address Privacy Concerns

2012-04-24T19:09:26Z

Authors of a cybersecurity bill said Tuesday they will amend their legislation in response to privacy concerns before the House votes on the controver...

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Brian LaSorsa: Government Gamers

2012-04-16T09:01:35Z

The Department of Homeland Security had awarded a contract worth more than $177,000 to the California-based Obscure Technologies to create a tool that will allow the government to extract information from gaming consoles.

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David Segal: CISPA Is the New SOPA: Help Kill It This Week

2012-04-16T11:00:33Z

CISPA is the new SOPA. Today marks the opening of a week of action in opposition to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which would ob...

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