Censorship News: Russia Mocks Copyright-driven Blocking, China Can't Block Like Google and Microsoft Block
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-03-31 16:15:56 UTC
- Modified: 2014-03-31 16:15:56 UTC
It was supposed to be the world's toughest anti-piracy regime but Russia's site blocking legislation just isn't working. That's not just the opinion of irate movie and music companies either, but comments from Vladimir Putin himself.
The new laws will finally give us the right to parody and legalise personal copying of our digital media. We're also seeing important changes allowing non-commercial research to carry out text and data mining.
The UK’s out-of-date copyright law came closer to being fit for purpose yesterday, when the Government published regulations for copyright exceptions. They include exceptions for parody, personal copying, text mining, research and education. If the Regulations are approved by the House of Commons and House of Lords, they will become law on June 1, 2014.
A US court dismissed a lawsuit against a Chinese internet giant Baidu, which the plaintiff argued blocks material critical of China’s democratic credentials, a decision that could have far-reaching impact on how US search engines sift information.
The lawsuit was brought forward by a group of New York content editors who alleged that Baidu’s search engine was programmed to filter out material in the United States that touches upon the Chinese government’s harsh censorship laws, calling this a violation of the US Constitution.
If your answer is no, you’re not alone. According to a 2012 Gallup Poll, 60% of Americans have little to no trust of the mass media in terms of accuracy and fairness in reporting. The U.K. also has a similar problem when it comes to trust of the media. When looking at the world, a great number of countries are dissatisfied with their local media or media in some way.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Microsoft GitHub: A Hair Salon Where You Get Awards for Nothing (NFT Vanity)
- People aren't defined by some private (proprietary) database and Microsoft does not universally "score" developers
- On Character Assassination Tactics
- The people who leverage these dirty politics typically champion projection tactics
- United States Entering the $100 Trillion Debt Trap, We Compare GAFAM Debt
- Google's debt is about 6 times less than Amazon's
- Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), Inc. vs. Vizio, Inc. Is Costing the Free Software Foundation Money
- FSF subpoena and deposition
-
- Southern Asia is All Android (Majority) Now
- It's looking better (almost) every month
- Windows Already Down to 1% "Market Share" in Some Countries
- it is a dying breed
- Tesla Has Become a Ponzi Scheme or a 'Meme Stock'
- They tell us Tesla is "worth" almost twice as much as a company that sold about 30 times more cars
- For People at Red Hat "Job is at Risk"
- Red Hat is consulting some notorious firms to implement cuts
- Linux.com Became Mostly Dead, de Facto Marketing Site of "Linux" Foundation Products (Unrelated to Linux)
- what has happened to the authoritative domain Linux.com
- In Europe, Android is Bigger Than Windows (Android Now Measured at 45.1% Worldwide)
- Right now in statCounter...
- Links 06/05/2024: Al Jazeera Raided, Wildfire Season Coming
- Links for the day
- Links 06/05/2024: Scams and Politics
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 06/05/2024: Reading and Computers
- Links for the day
- GitLab's Losses Grew From $172,311,000 to $424,174,000 Per Annum
- Letting this company have control over your (or your company's) development/code forge may cost you a lot in the future
- statCounter's Latest: Android Bouncing to New All-Time Highs, Windows Down to Unprecedented Lows
- Android rising
- Can't Bear the Thought We're Happy and Productive
- If someone is now harassing online friends, attacking the wife, attacking my family (not just attacking and defaming people I know online) there are legal ramifications
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 05, 2024
- IRC logs for Sunday, May 05, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Erinn Clark & Debian: Justice or another Open Source vendetta?
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Death of Michael Anthony Bordlee, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- The Revolution Continues
- Today we've published over 20 pages and tomorrow we expect more or less the same
- Death of Dr Alex Blewitt, UK
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Following the Herd (or HURD)
- Society advances owing to people who think differently and promote positive change, not corporate shills
- They Try to Replace the Creators of GNU/Linux and Hijack Their Word, Work, and Reputation
- gnu.org is down at the moment; now I'm told it's back but very slow. DDoS?
- Thiemo Seufer & Debian deaths: examining accidents and suicides
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Links 05/05/2024: Political Cyberattacks From Russia and Google Getting a Lot Worse
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 05/05/2024: Infobesity and Profectus Beta 1.0
- Links for the day
- Running This Site Mostly a Joyful Activity
- The real problem or the thing that we need to cancel is this "Cancel Culture"
- Australia Has Finally Joined the "4% Club" (ChromeOS+GNU/Linux)
- statCounter stats
- Debian as a Hazardous Workplace Where No Accountability Exists (Nor Salaries)
- systematic exploitation of skilled developers by free 'riders' (or freeloaders) like Google, IBM, and Microsoft
- Clownflare Isn't Free and Its CEO Openly Boasted They'd Start Charging Everyone to Offset the Considerable Losses (It's a Trap, It's Just Bait)
- Clownflare has collapsed
- Apple Delivered Very Disappointing Results, Said It Would Buy Its Own Shares (Nobody Will Check This), Company's Debt Now Exceeds Its Monetary Assets
- US debt is now 99.98 trillion dollars
- FSFE Still Boasts About Working Underage People for No Pay
- without even paying them
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 04, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, May 04, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- The Persecution of Richard Stallman
- WebM version of a new video
- Molly de Blanc has been terminated, Magdalen Berns' knockout punch and the Wizard of Oz
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- [Meme] IBM's Idea of Sharing (to IBM)
- the so-called founder of IBM worshiped and saluted Adolf Hitler himself
- Neil McGovern & Debian: GNOME and Mollygate
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- [Meme] People Who Don't Write Code Demanding the Removal of Those Who Do
- She has blue hair and she sleeps with the Debian Project Leader
- Jaminy Prabaharan & Debian: the GSoC admin who failed GSoC
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Jonathan Carter, Matthew Miller & Debian, Fedora: Community, Cult, Fraud
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Techrights This May
- We strive to keep it lean and fast
- Links 04/05/2024: Attacks on Workers and the Press
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 04/05/2024: Abstractions in Development Considered Harmful
- Links for the day
- Links 04/05/2024: Tesla a "Tech-Bubble", YouTube Ads When Pausing
- Links for the day
- Free Software Community/Volunteers Aren't Circus Animals of GAFAM, IBM, Canonical and So On...
- Playing with people's lives for capital gain or "entertainment" isn't acceptable
- [Meme] The Cancer Culture
- Mission accomplished?
- Germany Transitioning to GNU/Linux
- Why aren't more German federal states following the footsteps of Schleswig-Holstein?
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 03, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, May 03, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Alexander Wirt, Bucha executions & Debian political prisoners
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Links 03/05/2024: Clownflare Collapses and China Deploys Homegrown Aircraft Carrier
- Links for the day
- IBM's Decision to Acquire HashiCorp is Bad News for Red Hat
- IBM acquired functionality that it had already acquired before
- Apparently Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Again (Late Friday), Meaning Mass Layoffs Every Month This Year Including May
- not familiar with the source site though