Showing posts with label aaron swartz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aaron swartz. Show all posts

Monday, February 11, 2013

Obama - Executive order on Cyber "Security" due to hacks. Yet, No proof of hacks. There goes our 1st amendment!



Well is it any wonder they want to wipe out every single Bill of Rights we have?  We have had only 2 left, the 2nd amendment (they are working on) and the 1st amendment (up to a point).

Obama is set to sign an Executive order on Wednesday for Cyber Security, due to all the hackings going on.

I have a question for everyone?  Have you ever seen any of the "top secret" documents from hackings?  We heard about the Pentagon hacking last week.  Yet I never saw anything from it.  We heard about the Bush email hacks the other day.  The only thing released was a portrait that Bush Jr. painted of himself.  So, in other words.... we are suppose to just take their word for it all.  Just like all the other events.  If they say it "it must be true."  Jeez... have they ever lied to us before?  The government and media wouldn't do that now.... would they?

Oh.. how convenient for the government that Aaron Swartz committed suicide a couple of weeks ago, considering he is the one who was instrumental in stopping any other cyber security (control) of the internet.

With the "control" of the internet, we will not actually have our 1st amendment left.  They will begin taking down the sites they do not want.   They will stop the flow of information of truth and questioning their actions.

Don't think that won't happen?  When the government takes control of anything.... has any good ever come from it?

We don't know what is going to be in that Executive order, but I guess we will find out after it is signed.  OH... who was that person in 2008 who spoke about transparency and all bills/orders being on the net 2 days before being voted or signed off on?   Oh... yeah that Nobel Peace Prize winner who has murdered more innocent people with drones and begun more wars than any other President before him.

Portion from article:


The White House is poised to release a cybersecurity executive order on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told The Hill. 
The highly anticipated directive from President Obama is expected to be released at a briefing Wednesday morning at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where senior administration officials will provide an update about cybersecurity policy.
The White House began crafting the executive order after Congress failed to pass cybersecurity legislation last year. Officials said the threat facing the United States was too great for the administration to ignore.


Saturday, January 12, 2013

RIP: Aaron Swartz "Suicide" - Activist who stopped SOPA bill. Co-founded "Demand Progress"



It seems really odd to me that a 26 year old who was a huge activist and was instrumental  in stopping SOPA.  Aaron Swartz co founded "Demand Progress" and Reddit and created the RSS.

The NY Times says he hung himself and his girlfriend found him.


He supposedly committed suicide in New York on Friday, January 11, 2013.

Go to the link and see all the things they were working on.  He was a major defender of truth and our freedoms.   

Watch this video of a speech he made about activism and the SOPA bill.  It includes how a Senator told him "The internet has to get under control... people are putting too much stuff on it, it is out of control!  We have to get control of the internet and what people put on it!"





Does the guy in that video sound like someone who would commit suicide?  Could he have been getting in the way too much? Working on something very big and had to be "murdicided?"  


Here is a webpage he created about himself::


Aaron Swartz is the founder of Demand Progress, which launched the campaign against the Internet censorship bills (SOPA/PIPA) and now has over a million members. He is also a Contributing Editor to The Baffler and on the Council of Advisors to The Rules.

He is a frequent television commentator and the author of numerous articles on a variety of topics, especially the corrupting influence of big money on institutions including nonprofits, the media, politics, and public opinion. From 2010-11, he researched these topics as a Fellow at the Harvard Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. He also served on the board of Change Congress, a good government nonprofit.

He has also developed the site theinfo.org. His landmark analysis of Wikipedia, Who Writes Wikipedia?, has been widely cited. Working with Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee at MIT, he helped developand popularize standards for sharing data on the Web. He also coauthored the RSS 1.0 specification, now widely used for publishing news stories.

His piece with photographer Taryn Simon, Image Atlas (2012), is has been featured in the New Museum. In 2007, he led the development of the nonprofit Open Library, an ambitious project to collect information about every book ever published. He also cofounded the online news site Reddit, where he released as free software the web framework he developed, web.py.
Here is a wikipedia page on him.

UPDATE - 1/13/13  A friend of his said he was on a Guerrilla Crusade for Internet Freedom. 

 
RIP