Something Schneier linked to.
https://www.404media.co/email/f459caa7-1a58-4f31-a9ba-3cb53a5046a4/
#privacy #security #surveillance #location-data #police #law-enforcement #fourth-amendment #search #carpenter-decision #liberty #freedom #right-to-privacy
Et Google ne nous répond même plus !!! Nous allons déposer plainte auprès de la Cour de Justice Européenne pour abus de position dominante. Michel G. secrétaire de l'Association française à but non lucratif depuis 1999.
https://bbc.com/afrique/articles/c78d9zy3pjzo
https://demainlhomme.org
contact@demainlhomme.org
0613563052 (France)
#googleads #AbusDePouvoir #abus #libertédêtre #presse #liberty #réseauxsociaux #Réseaux #ReseauInformatique #moteurderecherche #demainlhomme #IA #justice #JusticeSociale
Came across this in a news feed this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhTzRciyrPY
#freedom-river #freedom #orson-welles #1971 #animated-short #animated-short-subject #animation #parable #liberty #immigration
https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann/index.en.html
The famous inventor Zangemann lives in a huge villa high above the city. Adults and children alike love his inventions and are desperate to have them. But then something happens: when Zangemann wants to take another close-up look at his inventions during a walk through the city, a child hits him in the shin with the skateboard. That hurts! Enraged, the inventor makes a momentous decision... The clever girl Ada sees through what is going on. Together with her friends, she forges a plan.\
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This illustrated book tells the story of the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology.\
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A book that arouses children's interest in tinkering and encourages shaping technology. From age 6 to 106.
Born before 1918? This book is not for you. :)
There is a video. Here are links to some copies. Not all of these worked for me. It's 31:32 long.
https://media.fsfe.org/w/j1c6LQVZ8qnCLLwpXMuw3M
https://archive.org/details/ada-zangemann-a-tale-of-software-skateboards-and-raspberry-ice-cream
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ada_%26_Zangemann_-_A_Tale_of_Software,_Skateboards,_and_Raspberry_Ice_Cream.webm
https://youtu.be/ac3ZZ7WUuZM
#free-software-foundation-europe #fsfe #freedom #liberty #drm #freedom-to-tinker #open-hardware #free-software #ada-and-zangemann #software #skateboards #ice-cream #right-to-repair #software-freedom #hardware-freedom #maker #makers #software-hacking #hardware-hacking #maker-spaces #makerspaces
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The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
September 30, 2024
In Austria, the far-right Freedom Party won this weekend's parliamentary
election, edging out the ruling conservatives and sending shockwaves
throughout Europe. But it's unclear if the Freedom Party will be able to
form a governing coalition, as all of its rivals have ruled out
collaboration. Party leader Herbert Kickl ran on a nationalist platform,
pledging to restrict asylum and migration and expel non-EU citizens. The
Freedom Party was founded in the wake of World War II by former Nazis.
On Sunday, protesters gathered outside the Parliament building in Vienna
chanting, "Nazis, get out of Parliament."
Johanna Franz: "That means social cuts for Austria. That means lower
salaries. That means a catastrophe, especially for migrants and for the
women who are demonstrating in favor of abortion again. We started
demonstrating 40 years ago, and I can't do it anymore."
#austria #freedom-party #austria-freedom-party #herbert-kickl #democracy-now #nazis #vienna #wien #abortion #freedom #liberty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Austria
Generally, performing or receiving an abortion is still considered a criminal offence.
Abortion in Liechtenstein, which borders Austria, remains illegal and punishable by law. Some women who choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy cross the border into Austria to undergo the procedure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Liechtenstein
Once again, Europe surprises me. Just a few years ago I discovered that women couldn't vote in Switzerland until 1972!
Why hasn't the Tor Project been given all the info they need to keep us safe? What about Responsible Disclosure? This upsets me.
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/
From the limited information The Tor Project has, we believe that one user of the long-retired application Ricochet was fully de-anonymized through a guard discovery attack. This was possible, at the time, because the user was using a version of the software that neither had Vanguards-lite, nor the vanguards addon, which were introduced to protect users from this type of attack. This protection exists in Ricochet-Refresh, a maintained fork of the long-retired project Ricochet, since version 3.0.12 released in June of 2022.
In contrast to the CCC, Chaos Computer Club, who was provided access to the documents related to the case and was able to analyze and validate the reporter's assumptions, we were only provided a vague outline and asked broad clarifying questions that left us with uncertainty of the facts, and questions of our own. While we appreciate the journalist contacting us, this same access was not given to the Tor Project.\
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Given the potential risk to our users, we decided to go public. We requested that anyone with additional information about the case share it with us. This would allow us to conduct our own analysis and determine the best course of action to protect our users.\
\
To be clear, The Tor Project did not intend to ask for the sources of the story, but sought to understand what evidence existed for a de-anonymization attack to accurately respond to the investigating reporter's questions and assess our disclosure responsibilities. And we continue to have an interest in obtaining more information about how Onion Services users were de-anonymized. If we had access to the same documents as CCC, it would be possible to produce a report with more clarity regarding the actual state of the Tor network and how it affects the great majority of its users.\
\
We need more details about this case. In the absence of facts, it is hard for us to issue any official guidance or responsible disclosures to the Tor community, relay operators, and users.
#tor #privacy #security #surveillance #censorship #freedom #liberty #ccc
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Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America,
a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in
the public domain.
by Reuters
HONG KONG --
A Hong Kong man on Monday pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a
T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person convicted
under the city's new national security law passed in March.
Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of "doing with a
seditious intention an act."
Under the new security law, the maximum sentence for the offense has
been expanded from two years to seven years in prison and could even go
up to 10 years if "collusion with foreign forces" was found involved.
Chu was arrested on June 12 at a MTR station wearing a T-shirt with the
slogan "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" and a yellow mask
printed with "FDNOL"- the shorthand of another slogan, "five demands,
not one less."
Both slogans were frequently chanted in the huge, sometimes violent,
pro-democracy protests in 2019 and June 12 was a key kick-off day of
the months-long unrests.
Chu told police that he wore the T-shirt to remind people of the
protests, the court heard.
Chief Magistrate Victor So, handpicked by the city leader John Lee to
hear national security cases, adjourned the case to Thursday for
sentencing.
Hong Kong was returned from Britain to China in 1997 under Beijing's
promise of guaranteeing its freedoms, including freedom of speech,
would be protected under a "one country, two systems" formula.
Beijing imposed a national security law in 2020 punishing secession,
subversion, terrorism or collusion with foreign forces with up to life
in prison, after the months-long protests in the financial hub.
In March 2024, Hong Kong passed a second new security law, a home-grown
ordinance also known as "Article 23" according to its parent provision
in the city's mini constitution, the Basic Law.
Critics, including the U.S. government have expressed concerns over the
new security law and said the vaguely defined provisions regarding
"sedition" could be used to curb dissent.
Hong Kong and Chinese officials have said it was necessary to plug
"loopholes" in the national security regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Hong_Kong_protests#Objectives
#hong-kong #香港 #human-rights #civil-rights #liberty #freedom #dissent #protest #t-shirt #光復香港-時代革命 #liberate-hong-kong #sedition #five-demand-not-one-less #fdnol
A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore
True liberty shows itself to best advantage in protecting the rights of others, and especially of minorities.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Lecture (1910-06-07), “Biological Analogies in History,” Romanes Lecture, Oxford University
#quote #quotes #quotation #civilliberties #civilrights #equalrights #liberty #minority #rights
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/30261/
Remember: the Internet Archive owned paper copies of the books they lent. They scanned the paper book, and only allowed one person to view the scan at one time. Each patron had a limited time to view the book before other patrons had a chance. This is as close to lending the paper copy as possible without the patron actually touching the paper copy.
Publishers were upset because this digital lending gave them no more power, control, or money than they receive from selling paper books to libraries. Publishers rent ebooks to libraries in such a way that they get income from them constantly, and not just one time. Renting ebooks to libraries also allows publishers to spy on readers.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/internet-archives-e-book-lending-is-not-fair-use-appeals-court-rules/
https://torrentfreak.com/internet-archive-loses-landmark-e-book-lending-copyright-appeal-against-publishers-240905/
#books #ebooks #scanned-books #scanned-paper-books #rent #library #libraries #freedom #liberty #surveillance #control #power #greed
A quotation from Kennedy, John F.
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) US President (1961-63)
Speech (1963-05-18), Convocation, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
#quote #quotes #quotation #control #education #freedom #ignorance #learning #liberty #tyranny
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/kennedy-john/2262/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/28/afghan-women-singing-resistance
Here we are, the women, the world,
Singing freedom like a bird
Rise up, my people,
Rise up, my friend.
Their boots might be on my neck.
Or their fists to my face.
But with our deep light inside
I will fight through this night.\
\
This is what I woke up to this morning. It has remained in my mind, repeating all day. The Taliban have recently issued a new law banning women from singing in public or letting their voices be heard outside the house. In response, Afghan women have been singing this song and other songs and posting videos of it on social media.
#human-rights #human-rights-watch #hrw #afghanistan #women #taliban #womens-rights #freedom #liberty #song #singing #resistance
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by Zsombor Peter
BANGKOK --
Leaders of Thailand's newest pro-democracy party are under an ethics
investigation that could see them cast out of the National Assembly
over allegations echoing those that saw the party's predecessor
dissolved by court order earlier this month.
Thailand's National Anti-Corruption Commission said August 8 it had
ordered a probe of 44 opposition members of the parliament accused of
breaking the ethics rules for lawmakers for having sponsored a 2021
bill, which failed, to amend the country's controversial royal
defamation, or lèse-majesté, law.
The announcement came a day after the Constitutional Court dissolved
the progressive Move Forward Party, which won last year's national
election, for campaigning to soften the law, which prescribes up to 15
years in jail for each offense.
The court said the party's efforts posed a threat to national security,
and followed on from its January ruling that the campaign was a veiled
attempt to upend Thailand's constitutional monarchy governmental
structure, a claim the party denied.
All 44 lawmakers now under investigation by the anti-corruption
commission were Move Forward members. Five were banned from public
office for 10 years in the August 7 ruling that dissolved the party.
The other 39 have since joined the People's Party, set up in the wake
of Move Forward's dissolution to take its place, and include its new
leader, Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut.
If the commission concludes the 39 did breach the ethics rules, it
would then send the case to the Supreme Court, which could ban them
from public office as well.
Analysts told VOA the previous court rulings on Move Forward's campaign
to amend the royal defamation law laid the groundwork for their
possible convictions.
"The Constitutional Court has essentially delivered a verdict that
could serve as a catalyst for upcoming verdicts against these 44 MPs,"
said Napon Jatusripitak, a visiting fellow at Singapore's ISEAS--Yusof
Ishak Institute.
The Supreme Court may follow different procedures than the
Constitutional Court and decide to call its own witnesses, he said.
"But it would be quite an interesting outcome if the Supreme Court
ruled in a way that contradicts the Constitutional Court's verdict,
given that the Constitutional Court is treated as the highest court in
Thailand," he added.
Verapat Pariyawong, who teaches Thai law and politics at SOAS
University of London, also pointed to the precedent set by even earlier
court verdicts that banned leaders of Future Forward, a progressive
party that was dissolved by court order in 2020 and then gave rise to
Move Forward.
He said the case of Pannika Wanich was especially relevant. Pannika, a
lawmaker for each party in turn, was banned from public office for life
by the Supreme Court last year for breaking ethics rules by posting a
photo online in 2010 deemed to disparage the monarchy.
"The MPs in this [new] case, they didn't make remarks in the same way
that Pannika did. But they sponsored or they agreed to support the
draft legislation [to amend the royal defamation law] directly or
tacitly. And if the court follows the interpretation in Pannika's case,
they could expand the scope of the law to cover those MPs and therefore
ban them," Verapat said.
Officially, Thailand's constitutional monarchy is meant to stay out of
politics. However, the country's recent string of progressive parties,
and much of their base, say it has long wielded outsized influence over
the government in favor of Thailand's military and conservative elites.
They accuse those forces of weaponizing the royal defamation law to
persecute parties, lawmakers and activists seeking to rein them in and
move Thailand toward a more genuine democracy.
Since 2020, Thailand's courts have charged 272 people with breaking the
royal defamation law, according to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, a
local advocacy group.
Move Forward made amending the law, to limit who could file related
court cases and lower the maximum jail term allowed, a central plank of
the reform agenda that helped it win last year's general election.
Despite that win, conservative lawmakers blocked the party from winning
a vote in the National Assembly for prime minister, shunting it into
opposition.
Party supporters see the courts and commissions as doing the military
and conservative elite's bidding as well, and the broad language of
some laws and rules as helping them do it.
The ethics rules the 39 People's Party lawmakers are now accused of
breaking say office holders must protect the country's constitutional
monarchy. The analysts, though, told VOA they give little counsel on
what that means, leaving judges ample leeway.
"It's open to interpretation, because '¦ there is no clear definition
about protection of the monarchy," said Titipol Phakdeewanich, a
political scientist at Thailand's Ubon Ratchathani University.
"And when we talk about interpretation, it always means that if you are
the target of the elite or the establishment then they could find
anything to [rule] against you," he added.
The analysts said the People's Party is also running the risk of being
dissolved altogether, as were Future Forward and Move Forward before
it, by carrying on their agenda of amending the royal defamation law.
The party did not reply to VOA's requests for comment. At a news
conference on Aug. 9, though, party leader Natthaphong said they would
"not be careless" in going about it, in hopes of avoiding their
predecessors' fate.
Whatever the new party's fate, the analysts say the monarchy, or how
conservative elites are seen to be using the laws that protect it for
their own ends, will remain a major fault line defining Thai politics
and dividing the public.
"The issue of the monarchy has been used by those politicians who would
like to ensure that they remain in power," said Verapat. "It's those
people who rely on issues of lèse-majesté to attack parties like MFP
or People's [Party], so that dynamic will continue as long as '¦ the
Constitutional Court can rely on lèse-majesté to disband political
parties."
Napon said that may also portent more rocky politics ahead for a
country that has seen 13 coups over the past century and several rounds
of mass, sometimes violent, protests over the last two decades.
"The problem is that it's not clear that political parties can
represent these divides effectively in parliament or during election
campaigns due to legal limits, because these topics are considered
highly sensitive and some off limits by the Constitutional Court," he
said.
"It means parliament will be very inept in representing actual divides
in society," he added. "And that leaves people with grievances that
could only be expressed through means of street protest, which we have
seen before did not lead to meaningful results other than '¦ more
repression and jail time."
#thailand #freedom #liberty #democracy #lèse-majesté #opposition-party #move-forward-party #pro-democracy #peoples-party
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by Associated Press
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay --
It was one of the first actions taken by Paraguayans in public defiance
of their overthrown dictator, a military strongman who unleashed a
35-year reign of terror, killing hundreds of people and imprisoning
thousands more.
In a howl of dissent, crowds massed around the newly elected socialist
mayor of Asunción, Paraguay's capital, to tear down a bronze statue
honoring Latin America's longest-ruling dictator, Gen. Alfredo
Stroessner, two years after his 1989 ouster.
When the hulking metal finally came crashing down to a salvo of cheers,
Stroessner's large brass feet stayed planted on the plinth. Residents
joke it remains an unwitting symbol of his entrenched presence in
Asunción -- 70 years ago to the day on Thursday that he seized power
in 1954 coup and secured the virtually uninterrupted dominance of his
conservative Colorado party.
"Stroessner planted a seed, and that seed has germinated," said Emilio
Barreto, an 84-year-old unionist's son who was among nearly 20,000
Paraguayans estimated to have been tortured and imprisoned without
charge during Stroessner's rule. "Today we've been through 35 years of
dictatorship and 35 years of so-called democracy."
Those who pushed the process of democratization after Stroessner's
downfall said they had wanted to believe their country was on the
upswing, that its civic institutions were getting stronger.
But now activists say they've increasingly seen a trend in the opposite
direction.
In a rare eruption of public outrage on Thursday, hundreds of
protesters streamed through downtown Asunción, raising their fists and
chanting, "Never again, dictatorship."
"We're witnessing a curtailing of civil liberties," said Hugo Valiente
from Amnesty International in Paraguay, citing a series of recent
government moves that he said "have the clear purpose of discouraging
people from exercising freedom of association."
A government spokesperson and Colorado party members did not respond to
questions from The Associated Press.
Anxieties about democratic backsliding added urgency to the 70th
anniversary -- which also marks one year since President Santiago
Peña's inauguration.
Leading Thursday's protest was Paraguay's small but passionate
opposition -- including Kattya González, a center-left senator and
vocal government critic who was summarily booted from the Senate last
February.
She had garnered the third-most votes in last year's legislative
elections. But in a vote that rights groups said violated due process,
she was ejected by allies of former President Horacio Cartes, a
powerful cigarette tycoon sanctioned by the Biden administration for
corruption who remains president of the Colorado party.
"We don't see the popular will being reflected in our representative
bodies," González said. "That's why we're demonstrating today."
The government has chalked her expulsion up to the will of Congress,
where the Colorado party has a majority. In June, the party removed a
lawmaker from its ranks who had similarly spoken out against Cartes'
alleged corruption.
Last week, Paraguay even demanded that the United States accelerate the
departure of its ambassador after the White House imposed sanctions on
a tobacco company that it alleged had paid millions of dollars to
Cartes.
Cartes denies the allegations.
When Paraguay's senate last month rushed through a contentious bill
that expands government powers to audit nonprofits, the former mayor of
Asunción raised alarm, recalling the symbolic triumph of 1991.
"Let's remember the moment we knocked down the statue," Carlos
Filizzola said, "for its symbolism against what the dictatorship was."
The government said the bill aims to boost scrutiny of NGO finances to
counter money laundering. Critics said it mimics so-called nonprofit
transparency measures in place from Russia to Venezuela that send a
chill through civil society. The United Nations appealed to Paraguay's
lower house to reject it.
Experts argue that the past is still present in Paraguay because the
government hasn't reckoned with the legacy of Stroessner, who
entrenched the small South American country's highly unequal
distribution of land ownership and turned Paraguay into a smuggling
hub.
His enduring influence was never more obvious than in 2018, when
Paraguay elected then-President Mario Abdo BenÃtez, the son of
Stroessner's personal secretary who had served as a pallbearer at the
dictator's 2006 funeral.
"The totalitarian control of Stroessner created a real identification
between political party and the state," said historian Milda Rivarola.
"That's what made the Paraguayan political regime so special, the only
country on the continent that never really had a progressive
government."
Paraguay's left-wing opposition party held power just once -- from
2008-12 -- before its president's impeachment.
"In our country, this history of the dictatorship is hidden, there's no
policy of memory," said Rogelio Goiburú, who oversees efforts to
recover victims' remains for the Justice Ministry and whose father was
disappeared by the dictatorship.
Efforts to bring justice to those responsible for crimes against
humanity have been far more extensive in neighboring Argentina, where
courts have convicted hundreds of military officers of dictatorship-era
crimes and forensic teams have identified 800 victims.
But in Paraguay, there have been no blockbuster trials of junta
leaders. Public schools -- many still decorated with plaques paying
tribute to Stroessner -- avoid mention of the 20th-century dictatorship
in national history lessons.
The remains of just four victims have been identified with the help of
Argentine researchers. Goiburú said the Justice Ministry commission
has no budget or state support.
"I'm still putting up with everything because of that motto, 'Never
Again.' We do this so we don't lose our memory, so this doesn't happen
again," he said from a riverside park in dilapidated downtown
Asunción. In 1991, Filizzola, the former mayor, named it Plaza of the
Disappeared.
"That's why we have to continue," he said.
#paraguay #freedom #liberty #dictatorship #human-rights #colorado-party #justice #totalitarian #totalitarianism #never-again
Like many farmers markets, food producers and consumers gather for four hours on alternating Saturdays in Stockholm, a small community nestled between Caribou and Van Buren in northern Maine.
But unlike the others, the Stockholm Sovereign Market is unregulated. Aroostook County vendors sell baked goods, produce, dog treats, raw milk, maple syrup, eggs and herd shares — all of which is produced at home.
The market is the first of its kind in Maine and was made possible by a 2021 amendment to the 2017 Maine Food Sovereignty Act, a policy that has only been enacted in two states — Maine and Wyoming — codifying a "right to food" for residents.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/07/thailand-constitutional-court-dissolves-opposition-party
The nine-judge Constitutional Court unanimously ruled that the Move Forward Party committed treason by advocating reform of Penal Code section 112 on lèse-majesté (insulting the monarchy) and imposed 10-year political bans on all of its executive members, who were in office from April 2021 to January 2024. The case had been brought by the national Election Commission.
#hrw #human-rights-watch #human-rights #thailand #freedom #liberty #civil-rights #move-forward-party #free-elections #anti-democratic #constitutional-court #treason
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American journalist and author
“What Modern Liberty Means,” Liberty and the News (1920)
#quote #quotes #quotation #discernment #disinformation #falsehood #information #liberty #lying #meme #truth
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/lippmann-walter/48407/
