Submission + - GoDaddy continues official congressional support f (reddit.com)
Weezul writes: GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 13 declined, 4 accepted (17 total, 23.53% accepted)
Submission + - LolCat Kingpin May Pull 1,000+ Domains from GoDadd 1
Weezul writes: Cheezburger network CEO Ben Huh may pull over 1000 domains from GoDaddy in protest of GoDaddy's support for SOPA. Gizmodo has a list of companies supporting SOPA. Jeff Epstein has instructions for bulk transfers away from GoDaddy. Btw, Adam Savage has also warned that SOPA could destroy the internet as we know it. Reddit concurs that SOPA could destroy them. Finally, two congressional staffers, Allison Halataei and Lauren Pastarnack, who helped write SOPA/PIPA become entertainment industry lobbyists
Submission + - AFL-CIO and big content advocate for internet cens
Weezul writes: Today's House Judiciary Committee meeting on the Stop Online Piracy Act excluded any witnesses who advocate for civil rights. Google's Katherine Oyama was the only witness to object to the bill in a meaningful way. In particular, the AFL-CIO's Paul Almeida advocated for the internet blacklist, saying "the First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks"
Submission + - Egypt's Mordor becomes a torrent of leaks
Weezul writes: In what Egyptian ex-pats are calling the Egyptian Bastille Day, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security services on Saturday 5 March, freeing victims of torture there, detaining security personnel, and have started publishing secret documents on facebook and twitter.
An Egyptian Twitter poster wrote "I almost can't believe I'm witnessing this. We're inside the fortress of terror, our very own Mordor..."
Among the more amusing discoveries has been a room full of sex tapes, including Arab royals like Kuwait's Princess.
An Egyptian Twitter poster wrote "I almost can't believe I'm witnessing this. We're inside the fortress of terror, our very own Mordor..."
Among the more amusing discoveries has been a room full of sex tapes, including Arab royals like Kuwait's Princess.
Submission + - The battle for control of the Internet
Weezul writes: "We may argue again and again whether the Internet is changing our brains, elevating us, lowering us, making us smarter, or making us stupid. But at the end of the day, it seems the real argument is about control — who has it, who shares it, and who wants it." What people who worry about the internet are really worried about.
Submission + - Santorum : Frothy mix of lube and fecal matter
Submission + - Army Psy Ops Units Targeted American Senators
Weezul writes: The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war. An officer who tried to stop the operation was railroaded by military investigators. (see also the Hatch Act of 1939)
Submission + - Army officers ordered massacre in Tahrir Square
Weezul writes: The senior Egyptian army officers currently ruling Egypt as a military dictatorship ordered the wholesale slaughter of the thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square. Robert Fisk writes that "Mubarak ordered the Egyptian Third Army to crush the demonstrators in Tahrir Square with their tanks after flying F-16 fighter bombers at low level over the protesters [on 30 January]", but when tank commanders on the ground received the orders from senior military officers they instead called their own families for advice. "Fathers who had spent their lives serving the Egyptian army told their sons to disobey, that they must never kill their own people."
Submission + - Why does slashdot not work in Safari?
Weezul writes: If you post comments on slashdot using safari, your spelling best be impeccable, as left click simply won't pull up the Mac OS X contextual menu with spelling corrections. Why does this happen? Is there some css we may force upon slashdot that'll correct matters?
