Tag: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Girls vs Boys: Fair use and advertising
I really liked the Goldieblox advert when I saw it, the attitude, the aim of getting more girls into STEM. I didn’t even think about the backing music much apart from thinking it was a slightly odd but subversive choice as a fun parody of Beastie Boys very misogynistic and not-at-all kid-friendly ‘Girls’. It seems…
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Party at the NSA
Great and very topical song by YACHT that reminds me oddly of Le Tigre about the whole NSA debacle – donate to download or get a T-shirt, proceeds go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation! Although strangely I was half expecting a Miley Cyrus parody like this:
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Dial-A-Poem – the original podcasting & I Will Not Pay the Patent
Listening to a great Radio 4 documentary about John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem and the struggles they had against censorship and content – and they played part of Heathcote Williams’s incendiary – I Will Not Pay Taxes Until. Sadly some of these are still an issue – starting with the Queen and her purse bursting at the…
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Soapbox: why I support the EFF (and ORG)
You might have noticed the little Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Rights Group banners that have been at the bottom right of this blog for years…why do I support them? Well for one, although I’m not in the States I support the EFF because currently they are fighting for you and I to be able…