The crazy, chaotic, idealistic days of the Internet are ending. Once, the Prairies were open and shared by everyone. Then the farmers arrived and fenced them in. The same is happening to the Internet: Apple, Amazon and Facebook are putting up fences — and Google is increasingly being left outside.
Négocié plutôt que débattu démocratiquement, ACTA contourne les parlements et les organisations internationales pour imposer une logique répressive dictée par les industries du divertissement. Si il était instauré, cet accord créerait de nouvelles sanctions pénales forçant les acteurs de l’Internet à surveiller et à censurer les communications en ligne. IL s’agit donc d’une menace majeure pour la liberté d’expression en ligne et est porteur d’insécurité juridique pour les entreprises de l’Internet.
I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.
« Bouygues n’a pas le même rapport à l’argent que le commun des mortels. Neuf millions, […] pour le pédégé du groupe Bouygues, c’est pratiquement un septième du prix du yacht baptisé “Bâton rouge” - en hommage à la ville natale de sa femme, Melissa - qu’il s’est offert en septembre 2010 ».
Facebook ou Google soulèvent, quant à eux, d’autres problèmes. Ils centralisent plus de données qu’aucun état dictatorial n’oserait jamais imaginer. Facebook surveille notre navigation internet, fait de la reconnaissance de visages sur nos images et bien sûr, garde toutes nos données. Cela pose de grands problèmes aux États-Unis et de plus grands encore pour ceux qui ne résident pas au États-Unis : vers quelle juridiction allez-vous vous tourner en France si Facebook abuse de vos données aux États-Unis ? Et puis, il y a aussi les caméras de surveillance et les téléphones portables, qui peuvent maintenant se transformer en dispositif d’écoute ou transmettre des coordonnées GPS. Le téléphone portable, c’est le rêve de Staline.
The contacts list and IP address data of Jacob Appelbaum, a WikiLeaks volunteer and developer for Tor was given to the U.S. government after they requested it using a secret court order enabled by a controversial 1986 law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, according to the Wall Street Journal. The law allows the government to demand information from ISPs not only without a warrant, but without ever notifying the user.
The more recent reaction (to 9/11) was to shift all of society and almost every aspect of American culture, the activities of ever government department and agency, the expectations and rule sets, the budgets, the procedural manuals, and everything else to a paranoid modality and to institute what is essentially a low-level police state. That’s a difference worth noting. And worth complaining about. Generation 9/11. History will be at least a little embarrassed by us.
C’est difficile de juger de la sexualité de générations plus jeunes que la sienne. La sexualité des gens de 30 ans, je n’y participe pas, je ne suis pas une cougar. Mon sentiment (je le dis avec des pincettes), c’est que les mentalités sont plus ouvertes qu’avant, mais par rapport à nos pratiques de 68, il me semble que c’est moins ludique, qu’il manque la liberté de la chose improvisée. On dînait avec des copains, rien n’était prévu, on se déshabillait et tout le monde baisait ensemble ; ce n’est pas la même atmosphère que celle d’un club échangiste où tout est cadré.
Turing’s homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, when homosexual acts were still illegal in the United Kingdom. He accepted treatment with female hormones (chemical castration) as an alternative to prison. He died in 1954, several weeks before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined it was suicide; his mother and some others believed his death was accidental. On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for the way in which Turing was treated after the war.
In April of this year, WikiLeaks released the Guantanamo Files, which included classified documents on more than 700 past and present Guantanamo detainees. These files paint a stunning picture of an oppressive detention system riddled with incoherence and cruelty at every stage.
An official appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council has released a new report on the state of online free speech around the world. In addition to calling attention to long-standing censorship problems in China, Iran, and other oppressive regimes, the report devotes a surprising amount of attention to speech restrictions in the developed world—and it singles out recently enacted “three strikes” laws in France and the United Kingdom that boot users off the Internet for repeated copyright infringement.
Solitary confinement has been used in US prisons since the 19th century, but has become more prevalent with the rise of for-profit supermax prisons in recent years. Studies have found that, depending on the prison, anywhere from 0.5 percent of US prisoners to 20 percent of prisoners are kept in 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement. The PsySR letter noted that the UN Committee Against Torture has expressed concerns about the use of solitary confinement in US prisons, and noted that, unlike supermax prisoners, Manning has not been convicted of any crime.
