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Submission + - Protesters arrested on White House, CNN ignores it (thiscantbehappening.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, and their civilian supporters, chained and tied themselves to the White House fence during an early snowstorm to say enough is enough.

Washington Police arrested 135 of the protesters, in what is being called the largest mass detention in recent years. Among those arrested were Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who used to provide the president’s daily briefings, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the government’s Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration, and Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York Times.

No major US news media reported on the demonstration or the arrests. It was blacked out of the New York Times, blacked out of the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked out in the Los Angeles Times, blacked out of the Wall Street Journal, and even blacked out of the capital’s local daily, the Washington Post, which apparently didn't even think it was a local story worth publishing an article about (they simply ran a photo of Ellsberg with a short caption).
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Submission + - TSA Investigates Pilot who Exposed Security Flaws (go.com)

Submitted by stewart_maximus
stewart_maximus writes: The TSA is investigating a TSA deputized pilot who posted videos to YouTube pointing out security flaws. Flaws exposed include ground crew clearing security with just a card swipe while pilots have to go through metal detectors, and a 'medieval-looking rescue ax' being available on the flight deck. Three days after posting the video, 6 government officials arrived at his door to question him and confiscated his federal firearm (and his concealed weapon permit).
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Submission + - Cracks In The Universe Show Cosmic Strings Origins (insidescience.org)

Submitted by SciNye
SciNye writes: Physicists are searching for the fingerprints of cosmic strings and are hot on the trail of one of strangest theorized structures in the universe. They think are the first indirect observations of ancient cosmic strings, bizarre objects thought to have contributed to the arrangement of objects throughout the universe.

Submission + - French ISP Refuses To Send Out Infringement Notice (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Last month it was clear that French ISPs were not at all happy about the whole three strikes Hadopi process in France. Now that the "notice" process has started with Hadopi sending out notices to 10,000 people per day, it's hit a bit of a stumbling block. The French ISP named "Free" has apparently figured out a bit of a loophole that allows it to not send out notices and protect its subscribers. Specifically, the law requires ISPs to reveal user info to Hadopi, but it does not require them to alert their users. But, the law does say that only users who are alerted by their ISP can be taken to court to be disconnected. In other words, even if Free is handing over user info, so long as it doesn't alert its users (which the law does not mandate), then those users cannot be kicked off the internet via Hadopi.

Comment Re:On the other hand.... (Score 2, Insightful) 329

by ThePangolino (#33028408) Attached to: The End of Forgetting
The problem is that reactions are often disproportionate on both directions. A distant friend of mine was afraid of how much I knew about him simply by typing her name on a search engine thinking I had been following her for years. It took me a while to explain and make her understand all this information was freely available on the internet. See this example of extensive research published in a French magazine.

The truth is random people do not expect anyone they don't know well to know anything about them. This becomes different when you start becoming "famous". That gives a kind of moral justification for your party pics being made public.

As the parent says, everybody has made bad decisions in their life. Everybody seems also not recognize them by fear of the reactions. I think the problem is much more about those reactions than anything else.

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