It's official. CISPA is back.

Meet the New CISPA. Same as the Old CISPA."The new CISPA - just like the old CISPA - would protect companies like Facebook and Microsoft from legal liability when they hand over your sensitive online data to the federal government, without any regard for your privacy. The bill would permit the government - including ( Read more... )

I now firmly believe that LJ's staff are nuts. Check this out--the company that gets half its income from paid accounts...is planning on doing away with paid accounts this spring.So no more paid accounts, no more extra icons, and no ability to block ads. Oh, yes, LJ. I'm sure that's exactly what your customer base--and your finance department-- ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I got the weirdest phone call from some guy who claimed to be calling from Windows. Not, please note, MICROSOFT Windows, but he did his damnedest to imply that that was where he was from ( Read more... )

Well, LJ has decided to break again. This time it's the comments. I can't speak for everyone, but I was commenting quite nicely today...and then ZAP, the comment button grayed out, making original comments and replies to comments impossible ( Read more... )

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Gacked from rikibeth but originally posted by electricdruid at The fiasco continues


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This might help you understand what's going on with SOPA and PIPA, and why the problem did NOT go away when the Internet Blackout ended. Why this is, in fact, an ongoing problem for everyone on the Internet, everywhere in the world ( Read more... )

You can read the whole article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/technology/web-protests-piracy-bill-and-2-key-senators-change-course.html

However, here's a significant excerpt:

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Just thought that I'd remind everyone...tomorrow is the Internet blackout to protest SOPA (yes, it effectively died yesterday, but most of the news stories and sites about this still mention SOPA) and PIPA, the anti-piracy bills in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate, respectively ( Read more... )