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The global protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act (ACTA) seem to have left their mark on state leaders, the latest country to pull back being Germany. While they didn’t clearly state that they were against ACTA, German officials decided to postpone their decision on whether or not th... |
11 February 2012
06:13 GMT |
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It’s not news to anyone that Anonymous hackers condemn the practices of the Church of Scientology and now they came forward to reveal that their operation has “reborn.”
The hacktivist accuse the Church of causing the deaths of several of their members and engaging in policies of censorship across t... |
1 February 2012
05:56 GMT |
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA as many of us know it, is highly debated and protested against these days, but few know that a lot of the anti-ACTA arguments are highly inaccurate.
Since the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was abandoned, Internet users from all over the world turned their attention to... |
1 February 2012
04:25 GMT |
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As wasteful winter holidays are approaching, animal right groups would do everything in their power to convince the public opinion that meat is murder. One of the most shocking attempts of this kind was recorded in Spain, in a crowded market from Barcelona. Spanish AnimaNaturalis organization thought it is time to ... |
16 December 2011
05:44 GMT |
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After the riots that took place earlier this year, law enforcement officials began relying more on Twitter and Facebook not only to make sure their can prevent violent protests, but also to point out false rumors that could cause panic among citizens.
“There has been a massive surge in the number of police off... |
25 November 2011
05:02 GMT |
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The infamous hacktivist group is making one threat after another. After recently they threatened Congress that if they pass SOPA they'll be wiped off the internet, now they want to go after the United States government for trying to censor the internet.
“This is an urgent emergency alert to all people of ... |
21 November 2011
08:50 GMT |
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The long-awaited event largely promoted by the hacker group Anonymous has begun, gathering between one and two thousand protestors that occupied Zuccotti Park to state their demands.Presstorm covered the whole thing so far, following many of the posts on Twitter relating to the manifestation.In a recent post we'... |
19 September 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Anonymous is planning a protest in New York City next month that will culminate with a sit-in on Wall Street. Similar protests are being prepared in big cities around the world.The new campaign was announced from Anonymous' AnonOps Twitter account which linked to a poster that reads: "#OCCUPYWALLSTREET September... |
25 August 2011
12:29 GMT |
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The Anonymous group of online hacktivists is organizing distributed denial of service attacks against Yemen governmental websites to support protests in the Arab country.Anonymous took a break from its Operation Payback against companies and organizations ousting WikiLeaks in order to assist the Tunisian protests tha... |
4 February 2011
05:59 GMT |
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Anonymous has launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Tunisian official websites in response to the government's efforts to censor WikiLeaks.The notorious group of Internet activists reacted to Tunisian administration's order to ban access to WikiLeaks and several of its mirrors sites ... |
3 January 2011
02:59 GMT |
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After picking on Lady Gaga and even Justin Bieber, the Westboro Baptist Church turned its attention again to an old “favorite,” Adam Lambert. Members of the WBC wanted to protest outside Springfield, Missouri, where the singer had a concert over the weekend – but even if they had showed up, they wou... |
9 August 2010
04:01 GMT |
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Fujitsu employees belonging to the Unite union have been planning on participation in repeated walkouts since November. The workers were angry at how Fujitsu started to cut its workforce through 1,200 planned redundancies, out of which 90% have already taken place. The Unite members also protest at the pay freeze imp... |
18 December 2009
08:55 GMT |
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A group of Venezuelan students were recently arrested by local police for various theft charges. After further investigation, authorities proved that they were using many social networking sites, especially Facebook, to monitor their victims' activity and rob their houses while out of town.Global Post reports th... |
19 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Adam Lambert, the runner-up on the latest season of American Idol, has never made a secret of his orientation in his personal life, albeit he only came out in a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Fans clearly have no issue with that, since they have come to love him for his music, but that’s not to say fu... |
15 July 2009
08:38 GMT |
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In what Swansea University Professor Larch Maxey described as the “irony of our times,” the expert was invited to fly from his home in England to the United States, to attend a climate change conference at the Smithsonian Festival. Maxey, who, for the past 15 years, failed to wrap his mind around the whol... |
27 June 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Activists from Plane Stupid Scotland, an environmental organization opposed to the aviation industry, have recently blocked an Aberdeen airport, protesting against its expansion. The construction is funded and supported by Donald Trump, who wants to build a longer runaway, on which he and his rich friends can land th... |
4 March 2009
04:52 GMT |
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From the same series as the infamous Patriot Act, authorities in the US seem to be turning the country into a police state more and more every day. This has been made especially clear recently, when a group of four animal rights activists have been arrested as “terrorists” in the Santa Cruz and Alameda co... |
23 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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“Good girl gone bad” is the tagline that sold her most recent album so well but, when she really has to, Rihanna too knows how to be a good girl. The Associated Press is reporting that, in order to still be able to hold the February 13 gig in Malaysia, the singer has decided to obey the official rules and... |
7 January 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Members of the environmental organization “Plane Stupid,” which focuses its efforts primarily on reducing the amounts of pollution that commercial flights emit in the atmosphere, invaded one of the runways of England's Stansted airport in Essex on Monday morning and chained themselves to the tarmac. ... |
10 December 2008
02:15 GMT |
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Videogames have been blamed for a lot of things over the years, from teaching kids how to be violent, and showing them stuff they aren't supposed to see at their age, to promoting antisocial behavior. Anti-game protesters have risen, with the most famous one being Jack Thompson, who blamed the Grand Theft Auto f... |
19 November 2008
02:57 GMT |
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Some 15,000 activists gathered along a train line in Germany, to protest against the continued use of nuclear energy in the country's 17 nuclear power plants. A shipment of depleted fuel came from France, carrying some 17 tons of used pellets, to be disposed of in a special facility, at the salt mines in Gorlebe... |
10 November 2008
03:33 GMT |
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