The institutional ecosystem that cradled ARPANET (via my pal Juan Ortiz Freuler on Mastodon)
This is what the internet looks like by Peter Garritano (via mentalfloss
this is the internet. See the awesome visualization at: NTT Internet BGP Visualization (via eMax)
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WHAT WE’LL DO ON FEBRUARY 11th:
If you’re in the US: Thousands of websites will host banners urging people to call/email Congress. We’ll ask legislators to oppose the FISA Improvements Act, support the USA Freedom Act, and enact protections for non-Americans.
from The Day We Fight Back:
DEAR USERS OF THE INTERNET,
In January 2012 we defeated the SOPA and PIPA censorship legislation with the largest Internet protest in history. Today we face another critical threat, one that again undermines the Internet and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass surveillance.
In celebration of the win against SOPA and PIPA two years ago, and in memory of one of its leaders, Aaron Swartz, we are planning a day of protest against mass surveillance, to take place this February 11th.
Together we will push back against powers that seek to observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action. Together, we will make it clear that such behavior is not compatible with democratic governance. Together, if we persist, we will win this fight.
Want to know more? If you're in the US you can call or write your representatives. If you want to participate you can find banners and more information at: https://thedaywefightback.org
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As someone recently said: the government are public servants and we are private citizens - not the other way around.
Star Trek anticipated the Web
This map shows the average Internet usage of the observed nodes over a 24-hour period. click for a beautiful animated gif - if you look closely you can see the traffic move with the daylight (via motherboard vice) This shows only IPv4 (vs. IPv6), Linux-based computers without passwords (eg: routers). It's incredibly illegal and potentially dangerous (as Brett noted: "400K systems under the incognito control of one individual is a potential threat to the entire Internet") but it's still staggeringly beautiful.
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