Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
— IMDB: 1984 - Quotes
Sivustoilla olevien kuvien hallussapito ja levittäminen on säädetty rangaistavaksi.
— Poliisin varoitussivu sensuroiduille sivustoille.

Tags: 1984, Activism, censorship, effi, internet
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Tags: Activism, Design, nature
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard
I ask the national members of ISO to vote “NO” in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons:
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Tags: Activism, microsoft, ooxml
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
We believe that IPRED2’s new criminal sanctions pose a risk to legitimate business and respect for individual freedoms in the EU.
We ask that the European Parliament approve amendments that would remove the new crimes of “aiding, abetting, or inciting” and limit the directive to combat only trademark counterfeiting and true commercial-scale copyright piracy.
I signed. You should too.
Tags: Activism, copycrime, eff, ipred2
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Friday, August 26th, 2005

I believe that:
- Data retention is an invasive tool that interferes with the private lives of everyone;
- Retaining personal data on everyone is an illegal practice in terms of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as it is disproportionate;
- Security gained from retention may be illusory, as it is likely that traffic data that is associated to one individual may actually be linked to activity taken by another, or by a process that is unrelated to the activities of that user;
- The means through which this policy is being pursued is illegitimate, as some member states who have failed to pass this policy through their own Parliaments are now trying to push it through the EU instead in the name of harmonisation and international cooperation.
“6016: Ismo Vuorinen from Finland signed on 29-07-2005″
Now there are over 30600 who already signed. Why not join in?
Tags: Activism, data-retention, eff, privacy
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