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With out taking sides on the matter and only focusing on the fact that yahoo will give confidential information to a government, in this particular case to a foreign government .. but foreign or not, people needs to know or start to care about all this tools they use in the internet with out thinking in the political seeds they are helping create giving this corporations their power in popularity and market share.. think twice before using yahoo/google/myspace and such corporate manipulatory tools and such..

From amnesty international:
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sending an email.

Support online freedom of speech by asking your Representative to support H.R. 275, the Global Online Freedom Act.

from Dailyradical

In recent months, has been word of mouth a name: "Facebook." Facebook is
the name of a Web site on the Internet that serves as a social tool to
connect people (www.facebook.com). In this type of page is what you call
Social Network Sites (SRS).

Facebook serves to endless uses. It serves to connect the Web fellow
class of the College, which serves to connect old friends physically
separated by distance and the passing of life; serves to contact
prostitut @ s (say that the governor of the state of New York contacted
a prostitute through a BSS is called MySpace); serves to play, and, also
serves to organize a way of doing politics. Facebook, for example, was
channel-organization worldwide-from demonstrations against the FARC that
took place on February 4, 2008. Currently serves as a space for
organizing demonstrations against President Hugo Chavez to be held on
April 11, 2008. It also has spaces for the help and support of the
candidacy of Leopoldo Lopez and to contact people who "hate Mario Silva."

http://www.dailyradical.org/knowledge/Venezuela_and_the_Hackers_Revolution

The Third International Forum on Free Knowledge was recently held in Maracaibo, Venezuela, bringing together many people interested in the development of free software worldwide. One reason Venezuela chose to host this event is that, in January 2006, their new free software law came into effect, which mandates that all government agencies migrate to free software over a two-year period. I was invited to speak about the use of free software in telecommunications. Many of the events and presentations at the event were, much like mine, of a rather technical nature. From the many technical people present I was able to draw my own understanding of how Venezuela’s economic revolution was being implemented.

The People’s Ministry of Economics

Internationally the word is spreading about the US Online censorship
on Youtube, Facebook and government like this article from theNewYork Times

The blacklist of sites associated with Cuba in OFAC

An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case - [FSF.US]

Harald Welte and Groklaw announced as winners of the FSF's annual free software awards - [FSF.US]

Comrades, it has happen again!
DIGG this story HERE
this is truly dreadful, and a grim precedent!
They just tried this last week with Wikileaks --
probably the people that they are harrassing can
get their domain names registered overseas, but
you can see the path we're going down here...
You can find the original story from the NYTimesHERE
And another story HERE
I will like to make a call to action, spread the word and post this links on as many mailing list and sites as you can, for more information subscribe to our World Wide Digital Freedoms mailing list. Feel free to sent us your links and information about the case.

In solidarity
ReK2

This article deals with computer software. That may sound a bit abstract to some of our readers, but it is a subject that is relevant to everybody who uses a computer, for example to read this very article. You should care about the way the computer industry functions today and the way it imposes severe restrictions on us since you may one day no longer be allowed to listen to your MP3's or read your Microsoft Word documents. You may think you will be able to continue these simple tasks forever because you believe you actually own and control most of what is stored on your computer. However, according to big business that is not the case.

CA Action Alert: Don't Let Senator Feinstein Give Immunity to Lawbreaking Telecoms - Senator Feinstein plans to vote in favor of telecom immunity at a critical Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. As the swing vote in a close legislative battle, she must hear from constituents if telecom immunity is to be stopped. Take action now! [EFF]

EFF Suit Demands Telecom Lobbying Records from Director of National Intelligence - For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) today, demanding any information about telecommunications companies' efforts to get off the hook for their role in the government's illegal electronic surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans.
Congress is currently considering granting amnesty to the telecoms -- a blatant attempt to derail lawsuits aimed at holding the companies responsible for knowingly violating federal privacy laws with warrantless wiretapping and the illegal transfer of vast amounts of personal data to the government. EFF represents the plaintiffs in Hepting v. AT&T, one of dozens of class-action suits accusing the telecoms of violating customers' rights by illegally assisting the National Security Agency with this domestic surveillance.