Friday, June 24, 2011

Three Articles from the forefront of Your Rights Eroding

Three articles from both the United States and Australia discuss how ISPs are either filtering content or working with private copyright holders to throttle or block traffic just based on an accusation of copyright infringement.

Ars is reporting that the MPAA & RIAA are working with colluding with large ISPs to throttle or limit access to users accused of copyright infringement.  CNet is reporting the same story.  Both explain how the White House is behind this effort to trash the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth amendments.

News from Australia isn't any better: ISPs will start to voluntarily filter traffic based on a list provided by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

When governments start filtering the information we can access and/or encourage private industry to restrict our access, we need to think about alternate means of communication such as TOR and Project Kleinrock

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