Rebecca MacKinnon is the author of “Consent Of The Networked – The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom” and this is her TED Talk which summarizes the vast panoply of issues surrounding, embedded within and erupting from the linking of the world via the internet. Even if you don’t read the book – watch this and share it.
First, here’s a news report on the growing worldwide outrage over the ACTA treaty which, if implemented, will censor the internet and destroy freedom of speech at the behest of a handful of corporations.
And then there’s a talk given by Prof. Michael Geist which lays out the fight – thus far – against legislation like SOPA, PIPA, TPP and ACTA and what needs to happen to continue defending human rights to communicate freely against corporate corruption of government bodies.
I’ll post links here for you to go to petition sites and info sites and all that crap – when, if you really do give a shit (and you should), all you have to do is Google ACTA or do a search on BoingBoing for ACTA – so you can add your voice to the growing clamour for governments to stop being ignorant rubber stamp toadys of their corporate circle-jerk partners.
When shit like this gets people out on the streets in the middle of winter you know they are fucking angry. And if the cumtwads in suits who fancy themselves the new aristocracy think they’re going to actually get away with this shit they will be SO surprized when the dissent on the streets reaches through the tubes of the interwebz and chokes the bejeezuz out of their scrawny little testicles.
Fuck them.
But also be aware – they will NEVER stop trying. Evar. So we have to constantly be in the mode of kicking those fuckweeds in the gonads – hopefully on a daily basis. It’ll be good exercise for our democratic muscles and probably eternally entertaining to listen to them whine and squeal as we put the boots to them. Yes – it’ll get tiring from time to time but in the end it will be worth it.
So – want to help keep the world free? Make every day “Kick A Corporate Weasel In The Nuts Day”.
This is an excerpt from Linsey Pollak‘s show “Passing Wind” where he plays a multi-track composition with Mr. Curly, a contra bass clarinet made from a garden hose, and a feather duster clarinet.
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