I am sorry Australia, but your government seems to have failed it’s responsibility to you again. First it sides with the Japanese in their illegal whale hunting in their own waters, and then demonizes the people who stop them. Then it attacks free speech to restrict access to content that it finds distasteful (like hardcore porn and such), has tried to pass an actual censorship law, and now is trying to claim that it is in the best interest of the people to keep negotiations of an agreement which would impact every single one of them, a secret:

“Disclosure of the documents while the negotiations are still in process, would, in my view, prejudice, hamper and impede those negotiations to an unacceptable degree,” wrote [Attorney-General’s Department senior legal officer] Purcell. That would, in my view, be contrary to the interests of good government — which would, in turn, be contrary to the public interest.”

via Australian Gov’t: Not In The Public Interest For The Public To Be Interested In Secret Anti-Piracy Negotiations | Techdirt.

Considering my involvement with various filesharing websites, and my anti-US Government position. I see this coming to Canada soon, and it scares the hell out of me (they have already done it with the Casino site guys). How could a country be so subservient to another country that they are willing to sell out their own citizens?

Richard O’Dwyer, the UK-based ex-administrator of the video linking website TVShack will be extradited to the US to face copyright infringement charges. Despite public outrage Home Secretary Theresa May approved the extradition order today. The 23-year-old student has never visited United States, but now faces several years in a US prison.

Last year Richard O’Dwyer was arrested by police for operating TVShack, a website that carried links to copyrighted TV-shows.

Following his detention in the UK’s largest prison, the site owner fought a looming extradition to the US, but without success.

After a UK judge gave the green light to extradite the student two months ago, Home Secretary Theresa May officially approved the request from US authorities today.

via “Pirating” UK Student to be Extradited to the US | TorrentFreak.

Help us Obi Johnston, you’re our only hope. :(

Most people think about their own protections when they sign/encrypt their email, what people don’t consider is the privacy and protection of their friends and family. If your mail is intercepted or someone spoofs your address to send an email to your friends, your lack of signed/encrypted email puts you both at risk.

via Stop Being Lazy: Encrypt/Sign Your Email – Falkvinge on Infopolicy.