How open is your internet? An interactive map
As part of their ongoing series “Battle for the Internet,” the Guardian has put together an interactive map using data from the OpenNet project, which analyzed government interference in the internet in 74 countries.
Head to the Guardian to see and download the data on social sites, tools, transparency, and consistency.
Ars Technica reports that as part of a Department of Justice investigation, Verisign (headquartered in California) seized a .com domain registered with a Canadian domain provider:
EasyDNS notes that bodog.com was actually registered to a Canadian company called domainclip, but because Verisign has top-level control over all .com names, that didn’t matter. The government “simply issued a warrant to .com operator Verisign, (who is headquartered in California) who then duly updated the rootzone for .com with two new NS records for bodog.com which now redirect the domain to the takedown page,” wrote EasyDNS’s Mark Jeftovic, who also called for ICANN to step in to the domain takedown battle.
Yesterday Jihii wrote about an effort originating in the Reddit community to crowdsource a privacy bill to protect people’s online rights.
Perhaps, then, a trend, because yesterday also saw the launch The Internet Blueprint, an effort by Public Knowledge, a Washington DC-based digital advocacy group, that crowdsources technology bills that members of Congress can then pick up and run with.
The idea is certainly interesting. What we saw recently in the fights over SOPA and PIPA — and see generally over everything else — is reactive protests against proposed laws drafted with little public input and often by the lobbyists whose groups will most benefit from them.
The Internet Blueprint attempts to turn this process on its head by proactively promoting Internet-related laws that are written in public, by the public (and with Public Knowledge lawyers massaging them into proper DC legalese). Visitors to the site can vote up and comment on particular bills, vote on ideas they think should become proposed bills, and contact their representatives to get behind completed bills.
Via Public Knowledge:
While it can be reasonably easy to get people to agree on broad principles, conflict can often come when it is time to focus on details. That is especially true when it comes to legislative language – a single word (or even a single comma) can change the impact of a bill. That is why The Internet Blueprint goes beyond broad concepts and proposes concrete legislative language. The bills on The Internet Blueprint could be introduced and passed as-is.
The Internet Blueprint is a place for everyone – individuals, organizations, and companies – to come together and make it clear what is important to them. When you visit the site, the first thing you will see is a list of complete bills. Along with the text there is a headline, a short explanation, and a more detailed explanation of both the problem and our solution.
Public Knowledge has seeded the site with a few completed bills that focus on copyright policy and openness in international intellectual property negotiations. You can view them here.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
Did we break the ONA Issues Tumblr? We logged in today and the text on all of our previously published posts was blacked out.
On second look, we saw that Tumblr is raising awareness about the Protect-IP Act and the Stop Online Privacy Act, which are being debated in Congress today. As users log in to their Tumblr dashboards, posts are blacked out as if censored and there is a link at the top of the page which takes users to a post hosted on Tumblr’s site encouraging users to take action.
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Got a great idea for reinventing local storytelling? We’re on the hunt for online producers and reporters to apply for Localore, a new initiative from the Association of Independents in Radio designed to support the creation of new multiplatform reporting projects at public stations.
“Localore” is a play on the term “locavore.” Our aim? To help producers develop new models for fresh, locally-sourced, high quality journalism—and in the process, drive a bottom-up transformation of public media.
Producers selected for Localore will receive support to build a collaborative team that will implement a 9-12 month station-based project. This is an open competition: 10 producer-station teams will be announced in late January, and projects will begin launching in March.
You can submit proposals for project ideas at Localore.net through November 10. There, on our Station Runway, you can also check out the stations that have begun to vie to become Localore incubators. New audio/video submissions from interested stations will be posted through November 10, so please check back regularly.
Want to learn more?
Not a producer, but interested in helping us spread the word? Please share this message with friends or related listservs, or tweet about the project using the #Localore tag.
Questions? Contact AIR Media Strategist Jessica Clark.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: “It’s such an empowering thing to be connected at high speed and without borders that it’s become a human right”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC that legislation may be needed if self-regulation failed.
He has been asked by the UK government to negotiate an agreement on an open internet between service providers and content firms like the BBC and Skype.
Sir Tim would prefer self-regulation by the internet industry, but progress has been slow.
“If it fails the government has to be absolutely ready to legislate,” he said.
“It may be that the openness of the internet, we should just put into law.”
Net neutrality, the idea that all traffic on the internet should be treated equally, has been a controversial issue in the United States and is now moving up the political agenda in the UK.
Continue reading the story over at the BBC
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