Tag Archives: Stop Online Piracy Act

StopWatching.us, powered by Mozilla, seeks to catalyze a Big Data resistance movement

By Mark | June 12, 2013

Mozilla, the non-profit organization responsible for the popular Firefox web browser, has apparently stepped into the fray to lead the protest against our government’s recently uncovered campaign to aggressively monitor, record and mine the private communications of law-abiding American citizens. Saying, “We don’t want an Internet where everything we do is secretly tracked or logged […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alex Fowler, big data, data mining, domestic spying, Edward Snowden, FISA, internet, Mozilla, National Security Agency, NSA, Patriot Act, petitions, PIPA, PRISM, privacy, PROTECT IP Act, SOPA, StopWatching.Us, surveillance, surveillance culture, terrorism, thoughtcrime, War on Terror | 9 Comments

Voting out the Michigan politicians who helped scrap the Bill of Rights

By Mark | January 1, 2012

A Reddit user who goes by the name of DrowningSink has compiled a list of potentially vulnerable politicians up for reelection in 2012, along with their voting records on controversial legislation, such as the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which, as we’ve discussed here repeatedly, gives the government the right to imprison American citizens […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2012, Bill of Rights, common ground, Cook Partisan Voting Index, corporatocracy, Dan Benishek, Dave Camp, DrowningSink, due process, Gary Peters, Mike Rogers, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, NDAA, Obama, Patriot Act, PROTECT IP Act, PVI, reelection, SOPA, Thaddeus McCotter, Tim Walberg | 25 Comments

All that comes to mind is, “I hope the people of Ypsilanti react this way when I die”

By Mark | December 19, 2011

In other news, dissident Czech playwright turned politician, Václav Havel, has died. I feel bad for him that he had to die on the same day as Kim Jong Il. He deserved better than to be eclipsed by the little cult leader in the olive green track suit. But, people would rather talk about how […]