linksunten.indymedia.org: Durchsuchungsanordnungen wegen des Archivs waren rechtswidrig
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Zugriff auf biometrische Polizeidaten: EU-Kommission will mit USA geheim verhandeln
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SeaGuardian: Bundeswehr bestellt große Überwachungsdrohnen aus den USA
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Digital Services Act: Was hinter dem Veto des polnischen Präsidenten steckt
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Repression gegen Proteste: Iranisches Regime setzt auf umfassende Kommunikationsblockade
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Massenüberwachung und Hacking: Der BND soll neue mächtige Instrumente bekommen
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Il post di fuoco dell'amministratore delegato di Cloudflare, multata da Agcom per non aver bloccato i siti segnalati da #PiracyShield
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Ieri un organo quasi-giudiziario in Italia (l'Agcom, ndr) ha multato @Cloudflare per 17 milioni di dollari per non essersi allineato al loro schema per censurare Internet. Lo schema, che persino l’UE ha definito preoccupante, ci richiedeva, entro soli 30 minuti dalla notifica, di censurare completamente da Internet qualsiasi sito ritenuto contro gli interessi di un’oscura cabala di élite mediatiche europee. Nessun controllo giudiziario. Nessun processo equo. Nessun ricorso. Nessuna trasparenza. Ci richiedeva di non solo rimuovere i clienti, ma anche di censurare il nostro risolutore DNS 1.1.1.1, il che rischiava di oscurare qualsiasi sito su Internet. E ci richiedeva di non solo censurare il contenuto in Italia, ma a livello globale. In altre parole, l’Italia insiste che un’oscura cabala mediatica europea dovrebbe poter dettare cosa è e non è consentito online.
Questo, ovviamente, è SCHIFOSO e persino prima della multa di ieri avevamo diverse sfide legali in corso contro lo schema sottostante. Noi, ovviamente, combatteremo ora la multa ingiusta. Non solo perché è sbagliata per noi, ma perché è sbagliata per i valori democratici.
Inoltre, stiamo considerando le seguenti azioni:
1. interrompere i milioni di dollari in servizi di cybersecurity pro bono che stiamo fornendo alle imminenti Olimpiadi di Milano-Cortina;
2. interrompere i servizi di cybersecurity gratuiti di Cloudflare per qualsiasi utente con sede in Italia;
3. rimuovere tutti i server dalle città italiane;
4. e terminare tutti i piani per costruire un ufficio Cloudflare in Italia o effettuare qualsiasi investimento nel paese.
Gioca a giochi stupidi, vinci premi stupidi. Anche se ci sono cose che gestirei diversamente dall’attuale amministrazione statunitense, apprezzo JDVance per aver assunto un ruolo di leadership nel riconoscere che questo tipo di regolamentazione è una questione fondamentale di commercio sleale che minaccia anche i valori democratici. E in questo caso ElonMusk ha ragione: #FreeSpeech è critico e sotto attacco da parte di una cabala fuori tocco di policymaker europei molto disturbati.
Sarò a DC all’inizio della prossima settimana per discutere di questo con i funzionari dell’amministrazione statunitense e incontrerò il CIO a Losanna poco dopo per delineare il rischio per i Giochi Olimpici se #Cloudflare ritira la nostra protezione di cybersecurity.
Nel frattempo, rimaniamo felici di discutere di questo con i funzionari del governo italiano che, finora, si sono rifiutati di impegnarsi oltre l’emissione di multe. Crediamo che l’Italia, come tutti i paesi, abbia il diritto di regolamentare il contenuto sulle reti all’interno dei suoi confini. Ma devono farlo seguendo lo Stato di Diritto e i principi del Processo Equo. E l’Italia certamente non ha il diritto di regolamentare cosa è e non è consentito su Internet negli Stati Uniti, nel Regno Unito, in Canada, in Cina, in Brasile, in India o ovunque al di fuori dei suoi confini.
QUESTA È UNA BATTAGLIA IMPORTANTE E VINCEREMO!!!
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un altro esempio di quanto sia folle tutto questo: l'ordinanza che ci multa nota che Cloudflare ha avuto poco meno di 8 milioni di dollari di fatturato in Italia nel 2024. Ma il piano consente "fino al 2% del RICAVI GLOBALI" per danni. L'utilizzo dei ricavi globali è un ulteriore esempio di eccesso extragiudiziale. #assurdo
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Digitale Gewalt: Abgeordnete, Ministerien und EU-Kommission bleiben auf Deepfake-Plattform X
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Digitale Gewalt: Musks Chatbot Grok verbreitet weiter sexualisierte Deepfakes
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Vorhersehbare Forderung: Gegen Stromausfall helfen keine Überwachungskameras
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ICYMI: Updates from the 1/4 Meeting
ICYMI
Ohio – The Ohio Pirate Party was unanimously voted in as the ninth Pirate National Committee member state! Congratulations to the Ohio Pirate Party!
Young Pirates USA – Bylaws for our Young Pirates USA organization was approved during last night’s meeting. Co-Captains Lily and Jack were both in attendance for the approval of the bylaws.
Other News – Arizona and Illinois hosted their first in-person meeting for the year, with more meetings for state parties and their local affiliates to come this month. More candidates for the U.S. Pirate Party are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Just a reminder that our 2026 Pirate National Conference will take place June 6th, 2026, which will mark 20 years of the United States Pirate Party. The conference will take place in Boston, MA, as decided by our members. The next piece of business to be voted on by the Pirate Party supporters shall be in regards to the theme and/or tagline of the conference.
Remember: we will host the conference aboard a boat!
Datenzugang für Nutzer:innen und Forschung: „Wir haben das Recht auf unserer Seite“
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Unfortunately, the popular MedMastodon server, dedicated to doctors and medicine, unexpectedly shut down at the end of 2025.
Great update: MedMastodon is back online and its users should be able to access their data.
The speed with which it happened prevented users from accessing their data, highlighting the risks of decentralized social media without backups. Its administrator ceased operations, causing confusion and data loss for many healthcare professionals who had signed up as an alternative to Twitter.
This event serves as a reminder: Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!
WARNING: To help Med-mastodon users who have returned to the Fediverse, the Poliverso staff has created the Friendica group @MedMastodon
If you follow this group, you can:
1. Follow it and mention it in your messages, and it will reshare all your public posts addressed to it (this only applies to an initial message, not a reply to another message).
2. Follow it only to read all the messages from fellow doctors who send messages through it.
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
No War with, No Occupation of Venezuela
January 3rd – In the middle of the night, while most U.S. citizens were sleeping and unable to be outraged, the United States invaded Venezuela and claims now to have captured Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela.
After promising peace, the Epstein files & fear mongering that their political opponents will start wars, they have taken upon themselves to invade Venezuela in the middle of the night without Congress’s permission, putting American lives on the line for oil & to distract you from the files.
This is what this administration thinks of you.
We have it in our platform explicitly that the U.S. must be a good neighbor and how we need to shift the dynamic in the New World from “a paradigm of United States dominance to genuine collaboration and friendship is essential. A more united American Continent will help each country become stronger and create a stronger bond between every American, from Greenland to Patagonia.”
Pan-American is essential to the Pirate foreign policy objectives. Our platform says we must “advocate for ending the Cuban embargo and lifting sanctions on Nicaragua and Venezuela.”
Not starting a new war with them.
Even if the administration sought permission to carry out such attacks, we (the United States) can not and should not be attacking our neighbor. This is ultimately another “blood-for-oil” scheme that will lead to countless deaths, billions spent and hard feelings developed by neighbors who already had a hard time trusting us.
For any U.S. citizen that is thinking “Oh but they were sending drugs into the United States, something something nacroterrorists”, I counter with this: Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the convicted drug trafficking former President of Honduras.
This has little to do with drugs and everything to do with oil and a distraction from the Epstein files. This has to do with a government unfriendly to U.S. hegemony that the U.S. has tried like hell for years to be rid of, only to lead to this, the most brazen and obvious attempt.
The United States Pirate Party condemns these actions. Secretary Hegseth said Maduro “fucked around and found out”, but empires fall. When we no longer hold dominance over the New World, a fact which most certainly will one day come, our neighbors will remember how we treated them as the most powerful nation in the world. This is just one of many things I believe the United States, not Maduro, will have fucked around and for which they will find out. Not via immediate retaliation, not via the refugee crisis this will certainly exacerbate, but through the lingering memories of the world and especially our neighbors, we will find out.
No war with Venezuela. Ending war is possible.
Strategien für politisches Engagement: Vier Vorträge vom Hackerkongress, die Mut machen
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Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Since 2019, every January 1st, the public domain frees more works that copyright laws kept locked up. On this glorious Public Domain Day, works created in 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 are made available to everyone in the United States, at least, to use as they wish. We are free to enjoy and share these works without paying anyone for them. We can create new works from these old works by remixing them or repurposing them to our heart’s content.
This January 1st is special for Pirates because it is the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Swedish Pirate Party. It is fitting that both events should occur on the same day and we wish the Swedish Pirates a happy 20th anniversary!
As a celebration for this year’s Public Domain Day, the Internet Archive has a contest to explore and reimagine the creative treasures entering the public domain, especially works from 1930 that entered the public domain on January 1. Contestants must upload a 2-3 minute short film to the Internet Archive that uses at least one work published in 1930 that joined the public domain on January 1, 2026. This could be a poem, book, film, musical composition, painting, photograph or any other work that is now in the Public Domain. All submissions must be submitted by January 7, 2026 at 11:59pm PST. You can find more details on the contest at the Internet Archive.
As they do every year, Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle of the Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain have a detailed, but brief list, of what new public domain works we have. A number of characters are now in the public domain, including Betty Boop, Disney’s Rover (later renamed Pluto) and Blondie and Dagwood. Below is a short list with links to copies at the Internet Archive and elsewhere.
Books
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying – At the Internet Archive
- Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (the full book version) – At the Internet Archive
- Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage (the first novel featuring Miss Marple) – At the Internet Archive
- Carolyn Keene, the first four Nancy Drew books – At the Internet Archive
- Watty Piper, [em]The Little Engine That Could[/em] (the popular illustrated version, with drawings by Lois Lenski) – At the Internet Archive
- John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel
- Edna Ferber, Cimarron – At the Internet Archive
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison – At the Internet Archive
- Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
Films
- All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone (winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture) – At the Internet Archive
- King of Jazz, directed by John Murray Anderson (musical revue featuring Paul Whiteman and Bing Crosby’s first feature-film appearance) – At the Internet Archive
- Animal Crackers, directed by Victor Heerman (starring the Marx Brothers)
- Soup to Nuts, directed by Benjamin Stoloff (written by Rube Goldberg, featuring later members of The Three Stooges) – At the Internet Archive
- Morocco, directed by Josef von Sternberg (starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou) – At the Internet Archive
- Anna Christie, directed by Clarence Brown (Greta Garbo’s first talkie) – At the Internet Archive
- Murder!, directed by Alfred Hitchcock – At the Internet Archive
- L’Âge d’Or, directed by Luis Buñuel, written by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí – At the Internet Archive
- Whoopee!, directed by Thornton Freeland
Musical Compositions
- Four Songs – I Got Rhythm, I’ve Got a Crush on You, But Not for Me, and Embraceable You – with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, music by George Gershwin
- Dream a Little Dream of Me, lyrics by Gus Kahn, music by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt
- On the Sunny Side of the Street, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, music by Jimmy McHugh
- Just a Gigolo (the first English translation), original German lyrics by Julius Brammer, English translation by Irving Caesar, music by Leonello Casucci
- The Royal Welch Fusiliers, by John Philip Sousa
Sound Recordings
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, recorded by Marian Anderson
- Yes Sir, That’s My Baby, recorded by Gene Austin – At the Internet Archive
- You’ve Been A Good Old Wagon, recorded by Bessie Smith
- The St. Louis Blues, recorded by Bessie Smith, featuring Louis Armstrong
- Fascinating Rhythm, recorded by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra
- I’ll See You in My Dreams, recorded by Isham Jones, with Ray Miller’s Orchestra
- Everybody Loves My Baby (but My Baby Don’t Love Nobody but Me), recorded by Clarence Williams’ Blue Five – Recording
We’ll talk about Public Domain Day on the next Pirate News. See you then!
Image Credit: Public Domain
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Huduma Namba: Wie Kenias Zivilgesellschaft die Totalerfassung der Bevölkerung bekämpfte
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Dezentrale Netzwerke: „Es braucht dauerhaft zivilgesellschaftliche Power“
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Digitale Brieftasche: „Auf einem ähnlich unguten Weg wie die elektronische Patientenakte“
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ICYMI: Updates from the 12/28 Meeting
ICYMI
Arizona – the Arizona Pirate Party will start the year off by hosting their first in-person meeting in the Tucson area, expected to be held at a public library. Discussions will include expectations for the upcoming year, the Henry campaign, among other topics. The Arizona Pirate Party has also been actively working to help Nevada and Colorado to get a Pirate Party officially formed in their states.
Illinois – the Illinois Pirate Party released their meeting dates for 2026 for both the Illinois Pirate Party and the Chicagoland Pirate Party. The first Illinois Pirate Party will be held January 4th over Jitsi. In-person meetings for both Chicagoland and Illinois will take place in earnest come August. Otherwise, meetings are expected to be held over Jitsi unless stated otherwise.
West Virginia – Those seeking a warm place to sleep have a location available in Keyser, WV. The link and address can be found in the link to the meeting posted below.
Committee News – A renewed focus shall be put onto our committees within the US Pirate Party. Regular meetings are scheduled to be held weekly for Platform, Outreach, IT and Press Committee. A new chair, USPP PR Director Cy Kindsfather, will take over for the Outreach Committee. You can join our Discord server to find more information on committees and to get involved in the discussions.
Volunteers – We are actively seeking volunteers! This is nothing new, but if you are from the states of Idaho, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio or West Virginia, especially, you are incredibly close to having an official party in your state. It would only take a couple volunteers to make it official, and all it might take is you (yes, YOU 
Quote of the Week – “That’s what’s called leadership… those of us who are willing to actually look around and see ‘this isn’t getting done so I guess I’m gonna try to do something’. That’s leadership.” – Drew Bingaman
Check out our last meeting here! Victory is Arrrs.
Maximaler Nervenkitzel: Das sind die Tricks der Glücksspiel-Industrie
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