The pre-emptive demonstration against the pre-emptive war, which drew an estimated 250,000 chilled Americans to the Mall last weekend, was as polite and peaceful as the retarded monkey boy could have asked
Spam is not speech, it is conduct, specifically, spam is conduct consisting of a denial-of-service attack which may or may not be targeted at users, systems, networks, mailing lists, or some combination of these, sometimes in small but often in very large quantities
Technology groups are going on the offensive against Hollywood in a bitter dispute over a call for government-mandated copy protection
Anti-abortion groups continue to wage a battle against RU-486, the abortion pill. And, according to a new University of Oregon study, their tactics appear to be working
Complaints about identity theft nearly doubled in America during 2002, as what is that country’s fastest growing crime topped its government’s list of consumer frauds for a third consecutive year
The leaders of France and Germany used a historic meeting of their two governments yesterday to state their united opposition to early military action against Iraq. While in Sydney, more than 150 anti-war protesters today converged on Garden Island to voice opposition to the forward deployment of troops to the possible war on Iraq
Thousands of plastics industry workers marched in Taipei on the weekend, calling for the island’s environmental chief to step down in a protest against new curbs on plastic bags and tableware
A day of world-wide protests against a looming US-led war on Iraq has culminated in giant peace rallies in Washington, San Francisco and other US cities
A New York court has ruled that Network Associates, a maker of antivirus and computer security software, may not require people who buy the software to get permission from the company before publishing reviews of its products
The United States of America has gone mad. The reaction to 11 September is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded
The Supreme Court’s decisive ruling to uphold a law extending copyrights for 20 years will force public-domain advocates to compete ever more fiercely with the powerful entertainment lobby
Using just 30 pounds-worth of equipment, 19 Greenpeace protesters successfully broke into the control building at Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk in a bid to highlight what they said was the plant’s vulnerability
As Western troops head for the Gulf, anti-war activists have descended on Baghdad, seeking a solution to the showdown between the retarded monkey boy and President Saddam Hussein
Police in Genoa, Italy have admitted to fabricating evidence against globalisation activists in an attempt to justify police brutality during protests at the July 2001 G8 Summit. In searches of the Nexis database, FAIR has been unable to find a single mention of this development in any major US newspapers or magazines, national television news shows or wire service stories
On the day he was supposed to be replaced by another tree-sitter, John Quigley is served with a trespassing suit. Quigley now says he plans to remain in the ancient oak
Printer maker Lexmark has found an unusual weapon to thwart rivals from selling replacement toner cartridges: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
A Norwegian court has acquitted a teenager accused by US entertainment groups of creating tools for hackers. The court acquitted Jon Johansen on all charges and said he did not break the law when he created a system that could remove copy protection on DVDs
Penn Jillette — the taller, louder half of the Penn and Teller team — had an airport security guard get a little too personal while inspecting his package
The MIT AI Lab, the birth place of the free software movement, walked away from a US$404K study because the government wanted to restrict participation by foreign students — via Slashdot
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