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Proposed law prohibits TSA employees from dressing like cops Happy New Year: Plan your safe travel before you're drunk When Anonymous met politics The truth is the best bullshit London, eerily empty on Christmas morning EA, Sony, Nintendo pull support from SOPA (but their industry association still supports it) ACLU fights Kafkaesque secret Occupy Boston Twitter subpoena Proposed law prohibits TSA employees from dressing like cops
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 31, 2011 11:55 pm The STRIP Act, proposed in the US House of Reps, would require TSA employees to stop dressing like police officers, because they aren't cops, and when they give orders to travellers, travellers assume that these are the orders of real law enforcement officers, rather than minor bureaucrats: The bill, which has drawn 29 co-sponsors in ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 31, 2011 11:54 pm Happy New Year, Boingers. Have fun tonight, but don't drive drunk. Or tipsy. Or whatever it is you decide to call it when you're inebriated enough that your reflexes and attention aren't operating at top level. Personally, I feel that this is what public transit is for. But if you don't have access to that ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 31, 2011 11:24 pm Quinn Norton continues her excellent history of Anonymous for Wired, this time visiting the shift in the movement from pure transgression to political activism, and the way that this played out among Anons themselves: Anonymous fundamentally produces two things: spectacle and infrastructure hacking. They create scenes the media often can't resist, but they also tend ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 31, 2011 06:21 pm Instapaper developer Marco Arment nails three companies -- Apple, Google and Facebook -- for spreading bullshit. "Everyone has their bullshit," he writes. "You can simply decide whose you're willing to tolerate." Percolate's Noah Brier, however, takes issue with one of Marco's picks; namely, Facebook's claim that "users want to interact with brands." Brier believes that ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 31, 2011 04:18 pm Every year, Ian takes to the streets of London early on Christmas Morning to photograph the normally thronged streets in their state of eerie emptiness. The project was inspired by the scenes of empty London in the film 28 Days Later. He's posted his third set, from this year's Christmas. Photos of an Empty London ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 31, 2011 03:12 pm EA and Nintendo and Sony's electronics divisions have renounced their support of the disastrous Stop Online Piracy Act, but their industry association, the Entertainment Software Alliance, still supports it. However, all three companies are members of the Entertainment Software Association, a group that still remains aligned to SOPA. Although their individual express support of the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 31, 2011 01:57 pm The ACLU of Massachusetts is representing an anonymous Twitter user who has been targetted by an Assistant DA who is trying to build a case related to Occupy Boston; the court and the ADA have sealed the proceedings, so no one -- not even some of the ACLU staff working on the case -- is ...
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