Secret NYPD Document Describes Which Muslims to Spy On
February 3, 2012 by admin
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February 3, 2012
New York Magazine
By Joe Coscarelli
“Doesn’t the US have freedom of religion? Apparently not.” –KTRN
Details of the NYPD’s widespread surveillance of local Muslim communities after 9/11 are now widely known thanks to an ongoing Associated Press investigation of the secretive programs, and the material just keeps mounting. The latest info comes from a confidential NYPD intelligence report, which can be viewed here, entitled, “US-Iran Conflict: The Threat to New York City.” Recommendations include, “Expand and focus intelligence collections at Shi’a mosques,” but as noted by NBC New York, none of the dozen mosques listed in New York and nearby states “has been linked to terrorism, either in the document or publicly by federal agencies.”
The NYPD is prohibited under its own guidelines and city law from basing its investigations on religion. Under FBI guidelines, which the NYPD says it follows, many of the recommendations in the police document would be prohibited.
The report, drawn largely from information available in newspapers or sites like Wikipedia, was prepared for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. It was written at a time of great tension between the U.S. and Iran. That tension over Iran’s nuclear ambition has increased again recently.
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ACTA Is Worse Than SOPA
January 29, 2012 by admin
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January 30, 2012
Natural News
By J.D Heyes
“The people in charge don’t like the internet. It’s a powerful tool they want to control.” –KTRN
As a warrior for Internet freedom, you helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA by supporting Web black outs by sites like Wikipedia and by contacting your lawmaker to voice your displeasure. So loud was your voice that even the president of the United States sided with you in opposing it.
But don’t take a deep sigh of relief because, after all, we’re talking about a merger of Washington, D.C., and Hollywood here, as well as global interests. After the motion picture industry, its subsidiaries and all “interested parties” have spent nearly $150 million lobbying for some sort of Internet-centric “anti-piracy” bill, you should have known the powers that be would return.
And they have, only this time they are pushing something far more onerous: ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
“Although the proposed treaty’s title might suggest that the agreement deals only with counterfeit physical goods (such as medicines) what little information has been made available publicly by negotiating governments about the content of the treaty makes it clear that it will have a far broader scope and in particular will deal with new tools targeting ‘Internet distribution and information technology’”, says an assessment of ACTA by the watchdogs at the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
“ACTA has several features that raise significant potential concerns for consumers’ privacy and civil liberties for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet [regarding] legitimate commerce and for developing countries’ ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and level of economic development,” says EFF’s assessment.
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Amidst SOPA Blackout, Senate Copyright Bill Loses A Key Supporter
January 19, 2012 by admin
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January 19, 2012
Forbes
By Andy Greenberg
“Keep the Internet free! Hey congress, what are you so afraid of? People discovering the truth?” –KTRN
Wednesday’s mass protest strike of popular websites including Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing and others against the Stop Online Piracy Act has had its intended effect–at least on one Senator.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who co-sponsored the Protect-IP Act (PIPA) that served as the Senate equivalent of the SOPA bill, has officially withdrawn his support of PIPA and called for more discussion before new copyright legislation is introduced.
“Earlier this year, this bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously and without controversy. Since then, we’ve heard legitimate concerns about the impact the bill could have on access to the Internet and about a potentially unreasonable expansion of the federal government’s power to impact the Internet,” Rubio wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday morning. “Congress should listen and avoid rushing through a bill that could have many unintended consequences.”
“Therefore, I have decided to withdraw my support for the Protect IP Act,” the statement continued. “Furthermore, I encourage Senator Reid to abandon his plan to rush the bill to the floor. Instead, we should take more time to address the concerns raised by all sides, and come up with new legislation that addresses Internet piracy while protecting free and open access to the Internet.”
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Websites Going Black To Protest Anti-Piracy Bills In Congress
January 18, 2012 by admin
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January 18, 2012
Los Angeles Times
By Andrea Chang and Tiffany Hsu
“This bill is about more than just anti-piracy. It’s about censorship of the Internet.” –KTRN
What would the world be like without the Internet? Fire up your browser and see what you can’t do.
In the first strike of its kind, hundreds of popular sites such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing were scheduled to temporarily shut down Wednesday to protest a pair of anti-piracy bills that they say essentially amount to censorship of the Internet.
The prospect of a day without the websites set off a frenzy in the hours leading up to the strike, which was slated to begin Tuesday night, with parents urging their children to do their homework early and tech-savvy users posting instructions for how to access cached Wikipedia pages during the blackout.
“If Wikipedia is going down, I’m going down with it,” wrote Twitter user Mariellesmind, who was among thousands that filled the microblogging site with panicked, profanity-filled tweets.
“Terrified about the Wikipedia outage,” tweeted Los Angeles resident Chandra Moore. “I was told to use an encyclopedia if I have a question, but I won’t even be able to Wiki what one is.”
The Internet’s biggest power players, including Google, Facebook and YouTube, were planning to stay up and running, but the shutdown of the other sites and the ensuing anxiety underscored the breadth and influence of the world’s Internet companies, as well as Americans’ dependence on them.
Strike organizers say the online grass-roots campaign is intended to inform the public about the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, which aim to crack down on foreign websites that traffic in pirated movies, music and counterfeit goods.
Internet companies have broadened the debate, recasting it from one about piracy and digital copyright protection to one about Internet freedom. Calling the bills well intentioned but seriously flawed, they say SOPA in the House and PIPA in the Senate are threats to free speech that could stifle the Internet economy, drive up legal costs and lead to censorship or the shutdown of some websites.
The proposed legislation “creates a punishing Internet censorship regime and exports it to the rest of the world,” said a statement on Boing Boing, a group blogging site.
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Proof That The Information On Wikipedia Is Bogus
January 17, 2012 by admin
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By William Kinter
(KTRN Exclusive) I have a friend who is a bit of a trickster. He’s the kind of person who will roll down his window while in a car to ask the driver next to him for some Grey Poupon. I’ve seen him do this … multiple times. I have also seen him go up to police officers to tell them their badge is upside down – when in fact, it’s perfectly normal. He has never been arrest once for this, but I won’t tell you about the time he broke into a Jimmy Stewart impression while in court. That little trick sent him to the slammer. True story.
The other day, while doing some research on Noah’s Ark using Wikipedia, my friend decided to try something sneaky. He edited the Wikipedia page with bogus information. Click here to see the page. Under the Mandaeism Literature section, he made one slight change, adding that Noah’s wife, Nuraita, is the daughter of Levit. Sounds pretty good, right? Well, it’s wrong. Levit happens to be a character he plays in an on-line video game. Let’s imagine for a moment a student who is doing research on Noah and comes across this little bit of information. How is she to know it’s bogus? It sounds legit, right? While this example is pretty harmless, think of the false information on Wikipedia that isn’t so innocent.
Who writes the original articles on Wikipedia? Why aren’t they credited? And just because they decided to write a page on a specific topic, what gives them the right to be that page’s editor? Do they have a news background? Are they an expert on the topic?
Any way you look at it, Wikipedia is untrustworthy. First, we don’t know who writes and edits the pages. Second, anyone can edit a page like my friend did. Granted, most of the time, it will be caught, but only if you make an obvious change on a popular article. For instance, if we tried to chance something on the Kevin Trudeau Wiki page – adding that he has helped thousands of people get healthy – that addition would be immediately taken down. They would not allow that. I understand that someone needs to edit these pages or it would be a mad house, but what if you try to post information that is legitimate and it’s still taken down? Who is the God of Wikipedia to make these judgment calls? Is there a man behind a curtain pulling the strings?
Imagine if you will, a futuristic world, where all information is now stored on a computer. Books have vanished (along with most of the people due to the radiation poisoning in sector 7). Information is now only digital – books, music, movies, articles, etc. are only available in digital form. Who is the person in charge of making sure the information is accurate and true? Who controls this information? Who profits from it? While this may sound farfetched, it’s pretty close to reality already. Many people now get their books in digital form on the Kindle – meaning the information can be edited at any time. I can see a time when the user, if trying to read that book, is asked to download the “latest version” before he can proceed. Less and less people are using books these days. And more and more people are at risk of being mislead or lied to on a regular basis. This hypothetical futuristic world is already here. Will books vanish? Probably not any time soon. But if it’s up to Wikipedia, libraries will be a thing of the past.
*My friend made his little change on Wikipedia January 10, 2012. Let’s see how long it takes before anyone notices. Shhh, don’t spoil the fun.
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Wikipedia Founder Discourages Academic Use of His Creation
June 20, 2011 by admin
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June 20th, 2011
Chronicle.com
By: Jeff Young
Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia compiled by a distributed network of volunteers, has often come under attack by academics as being shoddy and full of inaccuracies. Even Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, says he wants to get the message out to college students that they shouldn’t use it for class projects or serious research.
Speaking at a conference at the University of Pennsylvania on Friday called “The Hyperlinked Society,” Mr. Wales said that he gets about 10 e-mail messages a week from students who complain that Wikipedia has gotten them into academic hot water. “They say, ‘Please help me. I got an F on my paper because I cited Wikipedia’” and the information turned out to be wrong, he says. But he said he has no sympathy for their plight, noting that he thinks to himself: “For God sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the encyclopedia.”
Mr. Wales said that leaders of Wikipedia have considered putting together a fact sheet that professors could give out to students explaining what Wikipedia is and that it is not always a definitive source. “It is pretty good, but you have to be careful with it,” he said. “It’s good enough knowledge, depending on what your purpose is.”
In an interview, Mr. Wales said that Wikipedia is ideal for many uses. If you are reading a novel that mentions the Battle of the Bulge, for instance, you could use Wikipedia to get a quick basic overview of the historical event to understand the context. But students writing a paper about the battle should hit the history books.
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