German Pirate Party Now Has a Seat in German Reichstag
While the German Pirate Party failed to gain enough support to win a seat, fate, it seems, had other plans for the party. A German Social Democrat, Jörg Taussig, was reportedly so fed up with the way the German censorship debates were going, that he dropped his membership as a Social Democrat and became [...]
Will Pirate Party TOR Nodes Be Used for More Than Iranian Free Speech?
There’s been particularly distressing news being reported today from 5 different countries for those who have believed in civil rights on the internet. Meanwhile, it seems that the Pirate Party has chosen today to launch two TOR nodes to help political dissidents in Iran exercise free speech in a country where free speech could [...]
Finnish Blacklist Transparency Website Added to Finnish Blacklist
A few months ago, when Wikileaks was blocked by Australian censors for leaking the Australian blacklist (later found to have legal websites in it), an editor famously remarked, “The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship.” It seems as though a similar thing is happening with Finnish censors now where [...]
Exclusive: IPFilterX – The New Anti-P2P IPBlocklist on the Web
When file-sharing users think of filtering their P2P experience, they think of something like PeerGuardian. When they think of a filtering list, they typically think of BlueTack. Now, there is a rival to BlueTack and it’s called IPFilterX.
When it comes to filtering IP addresses, the general goal for file-sharing users is to, to [...]
