Wikipedia Offline to protest SOPA
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Not that I support SOPA, but that's not really an apt comparison. Media pirates aren't producing their own product that is remarkably simmilar to someone else's - they are distributing the actual films/music/books/etc.
Again, the bill in question doesn't just address piracy, but also web stores for counterfeit products. I am of course talking about the later one.
"rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods" -PIPA
"The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a law (bill) of the United States proposed in 2011 to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods." -SOPA
Definition of counterfeit goods in a similar bill which this is based off of:
"(ii) to sell or distribute goods, services, or materials bearing a counterfeit mark, as that term is defined in section 34(d) of the Act entitled 'An Act to provide for the registration and protection of trademarks used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain international conventions, and for other purposes', approved July 5, 1946 (commonly referred to as the 'Trademark Act of 1946' or the 'Lanham Act'; 15 U.S.C. § 1116(d))"
So, yeah, actually the two scenarios I mentioned are exactly an example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combating_Online_Infringement_and_Counter
feits_Act
A problem also exists where an Indy movie studio and big movie studio could be producing similar movies, and the big movie studio could shut the other down because of it.
Fast-forward 12 years and even a site like Amazon is swimming with counterfeit goods. It's not as bad as Alibaba or TEMU, but it's pretty freakin' bad. At one point I would have told anybody just not to buy a USB flash drive that wasn't from the known brand names, but even that isn't a safeguard anymore. Amazon has sellers that are selling fake thumb drives that look just like SanDisk, PNY and Kingston.
At least, for now, Amazon has a pretty hassle-free return policy. If that ever changes in the future, you'd better be real careful what you're buying online.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Alex Jones is a strange one and hated by both sides Left and hated by old Conservative Right
Quasi-Wikipedia: InfoWars Goes Down In Flames....or does it?
https://wikipedia-sucks-badly.blogspot.com/2024/11/quasi-wikipedia-inf
owars-goes-down-in.html
a lot of people had their name on his show, they would cut and paste clips of Leftwing or Rightwing politicans sometimes taking them out of context for Doomsday Preacher sensationalism but they also had real people the 'Lizard Aliens' guy David Icke, Julia Davis, Mike Cernovich, Leftwings, Rightwings, Webster Tarpley, Jesse Ventura, Charlie Sheen, Kanye West, Nick Fuentes, Jerome R Corsi, Hollywood people, investment Bankers, former Astronauts it had them all
then after the school shooting cases of Defamation people thought him crazy and started to distance themselves
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an Ex-Stalin fan says How dare you say Nazi scientists helped NASA beat the Russians to the Moon
watch the Hollyweirdo movie 'Hidden Figures'?
if only she put the same passion into Communism or Mohammedanism
One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/one-woman-s-mission-to-rewrite-nazi
-history-on-wikipedia
Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.
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She had what she describes as a “culturally privileged upbringing” in Moscow.
from the thought police of USSR to 'freedom' thought police of Commiefornia?
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At university, Coffman majored in computational linguistics, a field that combined her interests in language and science. She was a top student and won a scholarship for business school in the Bay Area. She arrived during the dotcom boom and never left. “When I moved to the US, I didn’t have this idea of the shining beacon of democracy,” she says. But at least she could feel safe. “I would walk down the street and the police officer wouldn’t assault me or ask me for a bribe.”
Coffman, who has broad shoulders under a bob of blond hair, thinks and talks deliberately. She lives in a compact townhouse in a planned community in San Jose, California. The museums and galleries are harder to get to now (“I have to drive to San Francisco, find parking”), but she keeps stimulated with books, hobbies, and books about her hobbies. When I visited her at home earlier this year, she walked me past the weight-lifting setup on the ground floor. (She read Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training for that one. She approves of the book because it’s “like a science manual.”) Upstairs, I recognized the tall, narrow bookshelf that appears behind her during Zoom calls. It contains dozens of titles that wouldn’t look out of place in a history grad student’s apartment—Hitler’s Generals on Trial. Kiev: 1941. Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying. A few others, like In the Company of Women, nod to a career in business.
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That whole Left vs Right label nonsense
Jimmy Wales and his friend at the time, Larry Sanger it then became Wikimedia Foundation advocacy organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, run by a Russia American for a while Lila Tretikov born Olga LyalyaTretyakova a Russian–American engineer and manager, Tretikov has been invited by the World Economic Forum to join its "Young Global Leaders" community.
‘Wikipedia is as biased as the BBC’: How the Left took over the platform
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/27/wikipedia-biased-bbc-how-l
eft-took-platform/?msockid=2c3b1190a73162741e1504dca64e638c
Wikipedia has long been accused of having a liberal bias – now a study has given that argument considerable weight
such amazing Free speech Discussions
5 February 2018 Edgar181 talk contribs deleted page Talk:List of authoritarian regimes supported by the United States
February 2018 Spartaz talk contribs deleted page Talk:List of authoritarian regimes supported by the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page
=Talk:List_of_authoritarian_regimes_supported_by_the_United_States
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Wikipedia’s annual budget report from 2023—2024 reveals that they spent over $50 million of their total $177 million budget on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1871312751840407668
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