Category Archives: politics

don’t let the EU censor your internet: stop ACTA

January 28, 2012 – 11:50

You might have heard that SOPA got stopped (for now) in the USA, a bill to censor the internet and limit online freedom for everyone. An even worse deal is going down on our EU-side of the globe unfortunately, where ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) has already been signed, but not yet approved (luckily). ACTA – [...]

By n3wjack | Also posted in belgium, blog, copyleft, copyright, internet, law, media, society | Comments (0)

watching #egypt

February 2, 2011 – 23:33

I don’t know if you are following this as much as I am, but I can’t keep from checking out the news rolling in on the #Egypt feed on twitter. It doesn’t get any more real than that with live pictures and video’s being blogged and tweeted first hand. Paper.li on #Egypt proves great for [...]

By n3wjack | Also posted in internet, society, tv, twitter | Comments (0)

refactoring the government

January 26, 2011 – 14:40

The Belgian politicians are having a bit of a problem forming a new government since the last elections. This caused folks to organise a demonstration in Brussels on Sunday to make it clear that it’s time those politicians get back to work and form a government pronto. While talking about this the whole thing somehow [...]

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belgium is going digital tax crazy

January 28, 2010 – 21:15

Belgian politicians are going bonkers over the digital world the last month it seems. First Mr. Q decides to start taxing all digital carriers because hey, you might be using them to store copyrighted material. You know, the same tax they have for VHS and audio tapes. The difference just is that those tapes were [...]

By n3wjack | Also posted in belgium, rant | Comments (0)

why camera surveillance in mechelen won't work

December 5, 2009 – 12:40

The Belgian city of Mechelen is planning to put up road surveillance camera’s up on all big exit and entry roads to the city. The reason for this is -of course- the same as it always is when it comes to invading your privacy: to increase security. The plan is to scan every license plate [...]

By n3wjack | Also posted in belgium, privacy, society | Comments (0)

#iranelection

June 17, 2009 – 20:41

I’ve been watching the internet concerning the Iranian elections lately and I have to say that the information being delivered over the net is far more interesting than what traditional media has to offer, plus it’s a lot faster too. A few things are quite interesting about this whole thing from an geek point of [...]

By n3wjack | Also posted in geek, internet, law, security, society, twitter, war | Comments (0)

war ain't cheap

March 13, 2008 – 19:44

Photo by SGT Buttler, cc-licensed 3 trillion dollar. That’s what the war on terror has cost the US of A until today. I can’t even imagine how much that is, but if nobel prize winner Joseph Sitglitz says so, I bet he ain’t bullshitting. Check the link and google news for the details but you [...]

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