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Ways to tackle ACTA

chocotaur:

I’ve read a lot of people who are ‘tired’ after the fight with SOPA, but remember: the fight for civil liberties NEVER really ends. It’s tireless, and yes, it might seem unfair, but at least we live in a time when you can wage battle with a keyboard and not with a musket.

LET’S TALK ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT ACTA.

Find the right petitions, spread the information. It’s better than nothing. Here’s five things you CAN do if you can’t find a good petition or cannot contact the proper representatives:

1. Spread information. Find data online, and share it with others.

2. Make sure to tag things properly. The information is only good if it can be found.

3. Cross platforms. Spread information through different mediums. Check for twitter hashtags and USE them.

4. Look for the strongest petitions online. Direct all possible attention to the ones which are: (a) official or directed at government bodies, or (b) have the largest amount of signatures. SHARE these petitions. Make posts listing the strongest ones.

5. Research, research, research! Just google the latest news on ACTA and make a post about it on all the networks you can.

6. Talk about it. Talk about it in your workplace, on the way to work, with friends, with family. Every person you inform is one potential head in a network that will further spread the word of discontent.

7. Give it at LEAST 10 minutes of your every day to find out the latest about ACTA, and sign new petitions if they come up.

Remember these THREE BASIC ARGUMENTS against ACTA:

1. It was discussed in secret.

2. ACTA will affect BASIC liberties and civil rights, such as privacy and freedom of speech. There is NO economic benefit or tradeoff from ANY law that can compensate this. Ever.

3. ACTA is practically GLOBAL. And if you feel safe because your country didn’t sign an agreement, remember, countries can always jump on board with them later.

WAYS TO HELP FOR ALL TYPES OF PEOPLE:

Are you or do you know a DESIGNER? Make information about ACTA easier to divulge and assimilate. Present it properly so that the message is communicated BETTER.

Are you or do you know a LAWYER? Help others understand the contents of ACTA by putting it in layman’s terms.

Are you or do you know a BLOGGER? Put information about ACTA on your blog.

Are you or do you know a JOURNALIST? Get the information off the net and onto regular channels, such as television or radio. There’s still plenty of ground to cover.

Are you anything else? An engineer? An animator? A musician? A doctor? ACTA CONCERNS YOU and the liberty you have to research material for your workplace or distribute your artistic creations.

IMPORTANT: REBLOG THIS POST AS TEXT, NOT AS A LINK. MAKE IT EASIER FOR OTHERS TO READ IT.

MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ

http://www.stopacta.info/

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/three-core-reasons-for-rejecting-acta

http://www.laquadrature.net/en

http://www.erikjosefsson.eu/sites/default/files/UNOFFICIAL_CONSOLIDATED_VERSION_OF_ACTA_COMMON_RESOLUTION.pdf

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fuckyeahtommilsom:

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animalstalkinginallcaps:

FUCKING MONDAYS, AM I RIGHT?

DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED. THERE ISN’T ENOUGH COFFEE IN THE WORLD TO HELP ME RIGHT NOW. I WAS UP UNTIL 4AM LOOKING AT INTERIOR DESIGN BLOGS. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY. I’M NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO PAINT MY APARTMENT.

THE INTERNET IS THE WORST FOR THAT KIND OF THING. ONE TIME I WENT ON WIKIPEDIA TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE DRUMMER FROM DEF LEPPARD’S NAME AND I ACCIDENTALLY GOT A DEGREE IN NEUROBIOLOGY.

TELL ME ABOUT IT. I WAS TRYING TO DOWNLOAD SEABISCUIT AND NOW I’M AN ORDAINED MINISTER.

seapeas:

okayla:

osailors:

bellafaim:

In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users across all services—email, Search, YouTube and more—sharing information with no option to opt out. The change was announced in a blog post today, and will go into effect March 1.

I have GMail on my Nook Colour, and I went to search something online when I realized it had imported my searches from my computer. That’s right, it had SAVED my searches and then sent them to another device without any permission.

woah woah woah no no no

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disconaivete:

The new Miike Snow full-length Happy To You is expected to be released in the week of March 26; we already heard the dramatic Devil’s Work and here’s the new single Paddling Out. Below you can watch a teaser for Birth To Death, which has M83’s Midnight City screams in it (kind of).

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glenannes:

parkerings:

I suddenly see ourselves in the future, passing USB drives with episode downloads in alley ways wearing a trench coat and a hat. 

#don’t fuck around with me i told you i wanted the good stuff #i told you 720p is gonna cost you extra and you don’t have enough

#people on street corners with shifty eyes #hey man do you have arrested development season two #no but #i know a guy

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aeraspais:

zebablah:

i feel bad for laughing 

How did I fail to notice his hands last night? It is not even his facial expressions that fully make this moment. It is his hands. Just the rolling of the fists in hopes that he may too be a carry an award home, then the dream dashed! right before his eyes. “If playing gay doesn’t seal the deal, what will?” he thinks to himself. “What will?”

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Author Chuck Palahniuk first came up with the idea for the novel after being beaten up on a camping trip when he complained to some nearby campers about the noise of their radio. When he returned to work, he was fascinated to find that nobody would mention or acknowledge his injuries, instead saying such commonplace things as “How was your weekend?” Palahniuk concluded that the reason people reacted this way was because if they asked him what had happened, a degree of personal interaction would be necessary, and his workmates simply didn’t care enough to connect with him on a personal level. It was his fascination with this societal ‘blocking’ which became the foundation for the novel.

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‘Roly poly’, designed by the Design Incubation Centre at the National University of Singapore, are a pair of egg-like objects that mirror each other’s movements, even when physically separated. Two people thus can sense each other’s presence despite distances across the world: a tap of one half will create a simultaneous reaction in the other.

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"Ugh. Last week, 6.1 million people tuned in for the series premiere of Work It. The only logical conclusion for how that happened is … at least 4 million of those people were kidding. Right? Not that it matters to ABC. Whether you’re watching or hate-watching, ABC still gets the ratings and the ad revenue. And while Work It was the lowest-rated show in its time slot, 6.1 million people is still a lot more than 3.6 million, the amount who watched a recent Parks and Recreation. My point: YOU DON’T NEED TO WATCH WORK IT AS A JOKE. I am doing that FOR YOU. The less you watch, the sooner this will all be over."

Jake Fogelnest has been hate-recapping Work It for Vulture and it’s fantastic. It’s always a good time when a funny writer cleverly takes down a deplorable show. He opens with a really good point, albeit one that I’m a total hypocrite for agreeing with considering approximately half of this website, and most of my life, revolves around terrible television. Of course, it’s easy to justify this because cable is expensive and therefore 99.9% of my television watching is done via the internet. Notable exceptions: Community and Parks & Recreation, though invading a friend’s living room every week hasn’t exactly doubled those ratings. But I did watch the premiere of Work It when it aired last week and I spent the entire time feeling like I was covered in a layer of grime. This wasn’t just because the show was absolutely vile (although it definitely was) but also because for thirty minutes, I was part of the problem; I was one of the millions of people choosing to watch an awful show — and I was doing it because I knew it would be awful. On the one hand, it’s fun to hate-watch shows! It’s curiosity, it’s boredom, it’s wanting to add to the vitriolic conversation happening in real time on the internet, and it’s reassurance that all of those shitty pilot scripts you secretly write are somehow better than something that’s actually on television. But on the other hand, networks don’t differentiate between hate-watching a show and sincerely watching a show. It’s weird to know that you’re essentially helping out the enemy — and there is no greater enemy than a television show centered around the term ”mancession” — but at the end of the day, it probably doesn’t matter because a) have you ever met anyone with a Nielsen box? and b) despite this, we’re still going to watch NBC’s Happy Hour block tonight. So really this is just about thinking too much about nothing and also a long way to reiterate that Work It is the worst show currently on television and I’m totally on board with leaving the hate-watching solely to Fogelnest.

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firebolting:

thequietworld:

I personally feel like the Australian Downton promos set to Ke$ha capture the show’s gravitas in more intimate ways than ITV’s promos set to the choral renditions of Scala & Kolacny Bros. 

LMAO CAN YOU IMAGINE THE AUSTRALIANS TUNING IN TO WATCH THIS SHOW BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO SCANDALOUS! AND ACTION PACKED! SO MUCH DRAMA!!!! AND THEN THERE’S AN ENTIRE EPISODE DEDICATED TO ROSE GARDENING.

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE LOOKS ON THEIR FUCKING FACES?!

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animalstalkinginallcaps:

DID YOU HEAR THAT? IT SOUNDED LIKE A RIFLE. LIKE WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TO WORRY ABOUT WITH MY 401K IN THE TOILET, NOW THERE ARE POACHERS TO DEAL WITH.

YOU NEVER TELL ME I’M PRETTY ANYMORE.

WHAT? YES I DO.

NO YOU DON’T.

HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO A WORD-

TELL ME.

SERIOUSLY?

TELL ME RIGHT NOW.

… YOU’RE VERY PRETTY.

YOU’RE SO SWEET! I LOVE YOU FOREVER!