Just got my first tat.
U jelly?
Twitter able to now selectively block tweets
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter said Thursday that it now has the ability to block tweets from appearing in a specific country if legally required to do so.
“As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter said in a blog post.
“Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there,” the San Francisco-based company said.
“Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content,” Twitter said.
Twitter said that previously, if it was required to remove messages, it could only remove them globally.
“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” Twitter said.
“We haven’t yet used this ability, but if and when we are required to withhold a tweet in a specific country, we will attempt to let the user know, and we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld,” it said.
Twitter said it would post details of any incidents involving the removal of content toChillingEffects.org, a public database of takedown requests.
“One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user?s voice,” Twitter said. “We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with users when we can’t.”
China, notably, blocks Twitter, a situation which Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey described recently as “unfortunate and disappointing.”
NEW YORK (CBS 2) – Sources tell CBS 2 authorities are investigating a delivery of cocaine to the United Nations.
Sources say 30 pounds of cocaine were received by the UN in their mail room. It was delivered as a package on January 16th.
The New York Police Department and Drug Enforcement Agency are investigating.
No other details are immediately available.
European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The ‘Masquerade’ Behind ACTA
This is interesting. Kader Arif, the “rapporteur” for ACTA, has quit that role in disgust over the process behind getting the EU to sign onto ACTA. A rapporteur is a person “appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue.” However, it appears his investigation of ACTA didn’t make him very pleased:
I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament’s demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.
As rapporteur of this text, I have faced never-before-seen manoeuvres from the right wing of this Parliament to impose a rushed calendar before public opinion could be alerted, thus depriving the Parliament of its right to expression and of the tools at its disposal to convey citizens’ legitimate demands.”
Everyone knows the ACTA agreement is problematic, whether it is its impact on civil liberties, the way it makes Internet access providers liable, its consequences on generic drugs manufacturing, or how little protection it gives to our geographical indications.
This agreement might have major consequences on citizens’ lives, and still, everything is being done to prevent the European Parliament from having its say in this matter. That is why today, as I release this report for which I was in charge, I want to send a strong signal and alert the public opinion about this unacceptable situation. I will not take part in this masquerade.
Pretty rare to find such direct honesty in political circles. That’s quite a direct and clear condemnation of the entire process. In terms of process, it will be interesting to see if this has an impact. While the EU did sign on to ACTA today, it still needs to be ratified by the European Parliament (more on that in a little while). Having Arif quit makes a pretty big statement, and hopefully makes it easier for Parliament Members to speak out loudly against ACTA… Still, this is an uphill battle. The supporters of ACTA have been working to get ACTA approved for years. To them, this is basically a done deal.
The UK and 21 other European Union member states have signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, better known as ACTA.
The countries signed the treaty, which aims to harmonise copyright enforcement across much of the world, in Tokyo on Thursday. However, the signatures of the EU member states and the EU itself will count for nothing unless the European Parliament gives its approval to ACTA in June, and digital activists have urged citizens to lobby their MEPs against voting yes.
Poland, which was one of the signatories, saw thousands demonstrate in the streets on Wednesday, protesting against the signing.
An EU diplomat also added his signature. However, five EU countries did not sign, namely Germany, the Netherlands, Estonia, Cyprus and Slovakia. Many other countries, such as the US, Japan and Australia, signed the document in September.
Although ACTA is primarily concerned with the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR), its designation as a trade treaty meant it could be negotiated behind closed doors. This lengthy process, led by the US and Japan, was exposed in a series of leaks — some via Wikileaks — that revealed what was going on.
The final version of ACTA is very different to earlier drafts, which would have forced countries to disconnect internet users if they were found to be repeatedly sharing copyrighted content. TheEU rejected this proposal, and other ideas, such as criminalising the use of a mobile phone camera in a cinema, also fell by the wayside.
The European Commission maintains that ACTA will not require any legal changes in the Union. It argues that the treaty will align IPR enforcement standards in other countries with those already enshrined in EU legislation.
“It simply does not change EU law,” trade commission spokesman John Clancy told ZDNet UK. “The freedom of the internet that existed before — people’s access and the way they use the internet — will not change because of ACTA.”
“The ACTA agreement is about trying to bring other key partners’ standards of intellectual property protection up to the level of the EU and other leading players in IPR,” he said.
Can’t fuck with him.
Nate the Great.
Virginity Level MAX
Sheeeeit, if I had a DBZ VHS stack like that I’d have all the bitches.
All the bitches.
>Implying that collection of games isn’t worth a lot of money
A Tribute to Limewire
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- dbz_linkinpark_crawling_amv.wma
- i_get_knocked_down.mp3
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Thank you.
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