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returned to the U.S. "Everyone knew there was a serious problem, but they chose not to ask and they chose not to tell," Anderson said. The Vatican has denounced such accusations and has blamed the media for what it calls a smear campaign against the pope and his advisers. ___ Associated Press reporter Patrick Condon contributed to
5 things you (probably) didn’t know about frogs (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:46:00 PM
Not only is April National Mathematics Education Month (try to contain your excitement), it’s also National Frog Month. Can I get a ribbit ribbit? To celebrate this frog-tastic month, we present five things you probably didn’t know about frogs: • Diversity: More than 5,000 species of frogs currently exist in the world. • High jump gold medal: The Australian Rocket Frog can jump over 50 times its height. • Not a lollipop: Folks looking
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Does ACTA Kill Online Anonymity? Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
valid reasons to be infringing their copyright or related rights, to expeditiously obtain from that With the full draft of ACTA provider information on the for a high have been known to leaked, lots of people have been i d e n t i t y o f t h e r e l e v a n t lick frogs for the psychoactive h i g h l i g h t i n g t h e v a r i o u s subscriber. In other words, as side effects, but medical experts lowlights found in the draft. long as someone makes a warn of the activity’s serious Andrew Moshirnia, over at the copyright claim -- bogus or not Citizen Media Law Project, has - ISPs should be required to give dangers. • M e g a p h o n e : S o m e picked up on another one. If up who the user is. Once again, particularly loud frogs can be you read the draft, it appears to this appears to be contrary to US remove due process in revealing law. The RIAA made this heard up to a mile away. • Muppet: Jim Henson created anonymous users. While other argument in the US years ago, the prototype for Kermit the c o u n t r i e s h a v e v i e w e d and Verizon fought back and Frog using his mother’s old coat anonymity differently, in the (eventually) won, as judges and two ping pong balls as eyes. US, at least, the courts have noted that ISPs did not just have been very strong defenders of t o h a n d o v e r i n f o r m a t i o n Everything you ever wanted to the right to anonymous speech. without a lawsuit being filed and k n o w a b o u t f r o g s a t But the ACTA draft includes an official subpoena issued. So this fun tidbit: Each Party shall much for ACTA not changing Answers.com. A c o l l e c t i o n o f g r e a t enable right holders, who have US law, right? given effective notification to an But, an even bigger concern Answers.com content. Permalink| Leave a comment » online service provider of may be how other countries materials that they claim with implement this as well. We've Submitted at 4/6/2010 2:01:00 AM
already noted that China will likely use ACTA as justification for greater censorship, but Moshirnia points out that authoritarian regimes may start (ab)using it to unveil anonymous internet users as well: Let's say I am an oppressive regime. One of the very few ways my citizens can reach me is by videotaping and publicizing my brutal methods of silencing protesters(warning, disturbing link). Now, not only can I use bogus takedown requests to pull down those videos (think a global DMCA) but I can also get the private information of the poster. So why is anyone supporting ACTA again? Permalink| Comments| Email This Story