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How much do you trust your Internet Service Provider? What if they were monitoring your every move, turning over your personal information, or reporting your activity to the authorities? This isn't some hypothetical, nightmare scenario. It's the reality we are all facing with a new international accord that is poised to fundamentally destroy the openness of the internet, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
Disguised as a trade agreement and negotiated in secret, ACTA poses a threat to free speech online by forcing websites and ISPs to watch and track what we do online in the name of copyright protection. While protecting copyright is a legitimate goal, ACTA takes a fire hose to a match in protecting intellectual property, while blatantly disregarding our rights in the process.
Already, eight countries have signed the agreement and others are lining up. ACTA is making its way to the European Parliament for a final consent vote. Without EU approval, other countries will be forced back to the negotiating table. Sign the petition here to demand Parliament to vote "No" on ACTA:
www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-…
So what makes ACTA so alarming? It demands companies to spy on us, criminalizes people for trivial offences (like downloading songs), and is so vaguely worded that it could allow governments to implement dangerous copyright-enforcement regimes, such as the French "three-strike" law, which cuts off a user's Internet access.
ACTA, which is not aligned with international legal standards, has long been opposed by leading experts, civil society, and lawmaking bodies in many countries like Brazil and Mexico. Yet, portions of ACTA continue to be copy and pasted into other trade agreements and national laws, putting user rights dangerously at risk. Now, with our collective voice, we can sway the European Parliament to shoot ACTA down!
Users of sites like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Facebook are at risk of being monitored aggressively and be placed in danger since mere allegations of copyright infringement could lead to users being cut off from the Internet. We must stand strong and reject agreements, which undermine democracy and the rule of law, and trample on our fundamental rights! Say "No" to ACTA by signing here:
www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-…
For more information and an overview about ACTA click here: s3.amazonaws.com/access.3cdn.n…
Disguised as a trade agreement and negotiated in secret, ACTA poses a threat to free speech online by forcing websites and ISPs to watch and track what we do online in the name of copyright protection. While protecting copyright is a legitimate goal, ACTA takes a fire hose to a match in protecting intellectual property, while blatantly disregarding our rights in the process.
Already, eight countries have signed the agreement and others are lining up. ACTA is making its way to the European Parliament for a final consent vote. Without EU approval, other countries will be forced back to the negotiating table. Sign the petition here to demand Parliament to vote "No" on ACTA:
www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-…
So what makes ACTA so alarming? It demands companies to spy on us, criminalizes people for trivial offences (like downloading songs), and is so vaguely worded that it could allow governments to implement dangerous copyright-enforcement regimes, such as the French "three-strike" law, which cuts off a user's Internet access.
ACTA, which is not aligned with international legal standards, has long been opposed by leading experts, civil society, and lawmaking bodies in many countries like Brazil and Mexico. Yet, portions of ACTA continue to be copy and pasted into other trade agreements and national laws, putting user rights dangerously at risk. Now, with our collective voice, we can sway the European Parliament to shoot ACTA down!
Users of sites like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Facebook are at risk of being monitored aggressively and be placed in danger since mere allegations of copyright infringement could lead to users being cut off from the Internet. We must stand strong and reject agreements, which undermine democracy and the rule of law, and trample on our fundamental rights! Say "No" to ACTA by signing here:
www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-…
For more information and an overview about ACTA click here: s3.amazonaws.com/access.3cdn.n…
Imagine you are in a zombie apocalypse...
Imagine you’re in a zombie apocalypse. You’re face with the option to either let a severely injured character die so that they turn into a zombie or to kill them before they do.
Most will probably say that they’ll attempt to save the character’s life. If they can’t, they’ll keep them company and then kill them before they come back. Or that it depends on many other factors like where this is scenario happening, if there’s time to save or kill them (and how), if the character in question is worth it and so on.
However, what if this this character is someone that isn’t good? They have done a lot
Fanfiction Its That Time Of The Month...
Its become common knowledge that majority of fanfiction writers are predominantly female, many of which are teenagers. I bring this up because many of them aren’t afraid to write about menstruation when it comes to their female human main characters. It’s a natural biological process. There’s nothing to be ashamed of about it. But many other stories, such as TV shows and movies, even in some books, its something that doesn’t seem to exist for their human female characters. It is rarely even indirectly alluded to.
The only time this biological process is hinted at is when there’s a pregnancy going on, a young gir
Social Anxiety
This may be something that you may or may not wonder about me: why do I take so long in texting or calling you back? Even more so, when it’s been a while since the last time I’ve talked to you. The problem isn’t you, it’s never you, it’s me. It sounds like some ridiculous breakup excuse, but it is the truth.
It happens every single time I’m put into this situation. I’m not joking. It could be with friends, family, or a random stranger. Outside I appear neutral, but internally I’m freaking out in what to say and what to do.
It’s even worst when I’m the one that wants to talk to some
Pokemon Go - Not All Stories Are True
I’ve noticed lately that there’s been a lot of fake articles about people playing Pokemon Go being robbed, killed, and so on. Some of the articles I’ve googled to read more about don’t actually exist and those that do are on questionable websites that don’t provide any evidence. An legit news source, the GQ Magazine investigated most of the Pokemon Go stories that people have been spreading around. Even other sites like The Washington Post, The Telegraph,BuzzFeed News, Gizmodo and Snopes also looked into it.
I wish people did a bit of research to verify whether or not the news they hear is true, especially on Tum
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Can I copy and paste this to my journal?