Open Rights Group | Default censorship is a bad idea
Web censorship is a bad idea, please think again, UK government: http://bit.ly/ukcensorship Yesterday and this morning we heard calls from government ministers and others for Internet Service Providers...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Public Domain Day
Happy New Year: welcome Scott Fitzgerald, Bulgakov, Buchan and their books to the Public Domain! http://bit.ly/publicdomain2011 Some seventy years after their death in 1940, most of the writings of...
View ArticleORG Zine | Dodgy salesmen?
Can you really “buy” an ebook? Amazon seems to say “no”: http://bit.ly/cantbuyebooks #drm #copyright The dummy's guide to ebooks and the difference between buying and licensing By Phil Rooting for the...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Controversy around new Public Data Corporation
OpenRightsGroup asks UK Cabinet Office for clarity on Public Data Corporation after widespread controversy #opendata http://bit.ly/fmp33a The recent announcement by the Cabinet Office of the creation...
View ArticleORG Zine | Video: An interview with Neil Gaiman
Talking with @neilhimself – illicit copying of his books helps sell the real thing: http://bit.ly/neilgaimanvideo #deact #copyright Neil Gaiman speaks to Rich Millington from ORGZine about books,...
View ArticleWebsite blocking: Write to your MP today
Oppose web blocking: tell your MP to say no! http://bit.ly/nowebblock #DEAct Minister Ed Vaizey has written to Open Rights Group confirming that a voluntary web-blocking scheme is being discussed with...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Blog
@Carmdg There's a fairly detailed summary of the first two days of the #deact review here: http://bit.ly/ihjF5o From these links you can access what looks like the proposals for a voluntary website...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Minister confirms site blocking discussions
Minister confirms site block discussions to ORG; will involve consumer groups http://bit.ly/dUzFJH Write to your MP: http://bit.ly/fBBYy7 We have received a reply from Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture,...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Facebook takedowns: Burying bad news?
Via @openrightsgroup today's Facebook activist takedowns may have been because they were profiles and not pages: http://t.co/l4UMlpS News has broken today that a number of activist groups pages and...
View ArticleFB takedowns - ORG Wiki
FB takedowns - ORG Wiki http://bit.ly/FBTakedowns * Content is available under Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. Link - Trackbacks
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Corporations may not protect your free speech and privacy
Corporations may not protect your free speech & privacy: activists need autonomy: http://bit.ly/fbtakedowns #censorship #privacy Exactly how and why fifty Facebook radical groups’ user profiles...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Taking on Hargreaves' 'Digital Opportunity'
A design manual for 21st century copyright? Open Rights Group Hargreaves blog is up now: http://bit.ly/orghargreaves If you are interested in copyright or IP then today's publication of Professor Ian...
View ArticleORG Zine | On internet history and regulation
On internet history and regulation http://bit.ly/iGomZq #orgzine Part three from the 2011 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, By Wendy M Grossman Public private lives Part two from the 2011...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Prevent strategy: 'Internet filtering is essential'
Web censorship plans proliferate across government: http://t.co/HvS2pFy #censorship #freespeech #prevent The Home Office's new Prevent strategy, aimed at countering terrorism and a refresh of the...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Secret website blocking proposals
Secret plans for copyright web censorship given by lobbyists to @edvaizey: http://t.co/t6kYXLq #censorship #freespeech #copyright The Open Rights Group has learnt that detailed website blocking...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Ask your MP to support the United Nations report
Ask your MP to oppose new web censorship plans #deact #censorship: http://t.co/DUkdGfS On June 3rd Frank La Rue, the UN Special Rapporteur for the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of...
View ArticleUnable to process action
@OpenRightsGroup I can't take this action http://j.mp/k5zFYs says 'we can't identify anybody based on the info you've provided' or something ea-action not found for processing. This could be because...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | The Government still wants to hack your phone
The Government still wants to hack your phones http://t.co/cdK6dVB While politicians are convinced that Murdoch’s press has over-stepped the mark by routine hacking of citizen’s phones, let’s remember...
View ArticleSave our social media! Stop cut offs and close downs
PETITION: Stop Cameron’s crazy social media clampdown plans: http://t.co/ANZWEyd #censorship #privacy Prime Minister David Cameron announced that social media could “be used for good or ill” and...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group | Copyright term extension returns. Again.
Copyright term extension returns. Again. http://t.co/6eWGIoc Back in April we asked ORG supporters to write to their MEPs to help campaign against a Directive that would extend the term of copyright...
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