If we’re ever going to live in an actual “land of the free” - millions of people will have to start focusing their time and energy on rejecting these 5 huge threats to liberty, rather than just worrying about which person or team is going to run the biggest government in history.
The post Top-5 Threats to Liberty first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.The First Amendment is under assault in manifold ways, and there’s a fresh attack lurking in the results of a recent survey of American opinions of the news media. Research conducted by Ipsos revealed that 43 percent of self-identified Republicans believe that “the president should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad…
The phrase “speaking truth to power” is actually of Quaker origin from the fairly recent past — 1955 to be exact. It was the title of a pamphlet published by the Society of Friends that suggested to the two major superpowers nonviolent means of resolving the Cold War. If it appears cliché to the reader,… more
From our friends at DownsizeDC.org: Quote of the Day: “Right now, China, the government, can disconnect parts of its internet, in the case of war, we need to have that here too.” — Senator Joe Lieberman read more
Would you know what to do? (via Wired) Scenario: Your government is displeased with the communication going on in your location and pulls the plug on your internet access, most likely by telling the major ISPs to turn off service. read more
To combat US government seizure of domain names without warning or judicial review, a group of concerned internet users is launching a new project, called Dot-P2P, that will circumvent traditional DNS routing methods. read more
Remember COICA, the controversial bill that threatened free speech on the internet? Well, it was defeated (for now). read more
Here's the latest on COICA, Washington's latest attempt to wedge itself between you and the internet: From Techdirt: read more
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