Today, 2018-09-12, a European Parliament committee has approved new copyright rules, that will forever change the internet. The majority of the politicians in the committee decided that the interests of a few large music and publishing companies is more important than … Continue reading Last chance to save your internet! Your help IS needed!
Right after yesterday’s post WordPress congratulated me to 100 posts. Interesting, I somehow thought I had written more in the 6 years since I moved from my old blog to this. This morning I still didn’t know what to post about today, and someone (already forgot who, sorry) posted a link to a test that was supposedly identical to one researchers had used to do a study on how many left-radicals or left extremists are in Germany. The test itself was quite simple, the questions almost leading, and you could only answer yes or no, where a scale from 1 … Continue reading [Post 5] #oneweekdailyblogging – on posting
So, today it happend @tom174_ managed to post before me, and about the same subject I wanted to blog about – worse, he is posting almost exactly what i wanted to post on the subject. Maybe the whole referendum isn’t … Continue reading [Post 4] #oneweekdailyblogging – on europe and the brexit
Hintergrund: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/nsa-spaehskandal-merkel-nimmt-geheimdienste-in-schutz-a-910457.html Sehr geehrte Frau Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, bitte treten Sie umgehend zurück. Eine so eklatante Verletzung unserer Menschenrechte, und damit unserer im Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Grundrecht zugestanden Freiheiten, wie sie durch die sogenannten Partnerstaaten geschehen ist, ist sehr wohl mit der Stasi zu vergleichen. Nur weil Sie mit einer Kapitalistisch-Demokratischen Regierung mehr einverstanden sind als mit einer Sozialistischen, bedeutet das nicht das diese Mittel auf einmal Moralisch zu rechtfertigen sind. Ob man in einem freien und guten Staat lebt hängt davon ab wie der Staat die Grund und Menschenrechte achtet, nicht von der Staatform ansich. Ein “treuer Verbündeter” wie sie … Continue reading (german) Ein offener Brief an unsere Frau Bundeskanzlerin.
Last week we saw a young man do the right thing. Edward Snowden blew the whistle on a few secret US government projects, which are mostly used for surveillance and intelligence. The US is a country which puts a lot of pride into being “the land of the free”, and since a lot of americans where questioning the surveilance, the US president Obama stated about Prism that it “does not apply to US citizens and does not apply to people living in the United States.“. Now lets be honest, if his goverment would have been surveiling their own citizen, thats … Continue reading Prism, boundless informant, the land of the free and the UN…
