Chinese citizens, frustrated by censorship in their own country, are using the White House’s petition site to complain. Original post on motherjones.com Comments on reddit.com
Megaupload’s legal team are not restricting their fight with the U.S. Government only to the courts. Today they published a detailed white paper accusing the White House of selling out to corporate interests, particularly Hollywood. “The message is clear. The White House is for sale. More and more of our rights are eroding away to protect the interests of large corporations and their billionaire shareholders,” Dotcom summarizes. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
Calls for more privacy, civil liberties protections in reintriduced Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act Original post on networkworld.com Comments on reddit.com
Top advisory panel tells Obama that emphasis on al-Qaeda and war zones created intel vulnerabilities. Original post on washingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Yet another White House petition has made it over the 100,000 signature mark, which is necessary to get a response. This one is asking the White House not to support CISPA, arguing that the terms are too broad, and the possibility of abuse is simply… Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
The Obama Administration is making its opinion about cell phone unlocking crystal clear in a new memo. Original post on zdnet.com Comments on reddit.com
The White House on Monday came out in full support of the rights of consumers to unlock their cellphones once they have fulfilled the terms of their contract. Original post on allthingsd.com Comments on reddit.com
A petition pleading for President Barack Obama to push back on a decision that made unlocking cellphones illegal will receive an official response from the White House. With two days to spare, the… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House has moved to make the results of federally funded research available to the public for free within a year, bowing to public pressure for unfettered access to scholarly Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of research their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the results of federally funded research freely available to the public—generally within one year of publication. Original post on whitehouse.gov Comments on reddit.com
New Obama administration strategy says organizations such as WikiLeaks and hacking group LulzSec may conduct ‘economic espionage against U.S. companies.’ Read this article by Declan McCullagh on CNET News. Original post on cnet.com Comments on reddit.com
‘Starting today, as we move into a second term, petitions must receive 100,000 signatures in 30 days’ Original post on dailycaller.com Comments on reddit.com
A few years back, we had an interesting discussion over whether or not distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) could be seen as a valid form of protest — the modern equivalent of a Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
First there was the Death Star petition, then there was the Starship Enterprise petition, and now there’s a petition calling on the White House to build a nuclear rocket for fast interplanetary travel. Unlike the spaceships cited in those first two petitions, this one isn’t just … Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
After four years in which more than 300 drone strike killed some 2,500 people, President Obama and his team thought it was finally time to develop some actual, written-down rules on when the United States could kill someone. And what led them to this conclusion? Could it have been a… Original post on slate.com Comments on reddit.com
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today issued a statement essentially conceding that he was wrong in accusing the White House of changing U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points on Benghazi for political purposes. Former CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers last week that the CIA’s assessment that al Qaeda was responsible for the Sept. 11 attack [...] Original post on thinkprogress.org Comments on reddit.com
David H. Petraeus the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said hat classified intelligence reports revealed that the assault on the American diplomatic mission in Libya was a terrorist attack, but that the administration refrained from saying it suspected that the perpetrators of the attack were linked to Al Qaeda to avoid tipping off the groups. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
When she’s no longer secretary of state, Hillary has an intense desire to not do anything — for a year. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
White House: Obama will veto any bill extending tax cuts for those making more than $250K Original post on salon.com Comments on reddit.com
Do you feel that mainstream media spin is obscuring the truth during this election season? Truthout doesn’t take advertising or corporate sponsorships… Original post on truth-out.org Comments on reddit.com
Earlier this week, we wrote about how the White House was working on an executive order to act as a Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
(Corrects dateline to Sept 14)By Gerry ShihSAN FRANCISCO, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Google Inc rejected a request by the White House on Friday to reconsiderits decision to keep online a controversial YouTube Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
The White House’s response marks a new low in relations between Netanyahu and Obama, underscored by the fact that this is the first time Netanyahu will visit the U.S. as prime minister without meeting Obama; PM to meet with Clinton Original post on haaretz.com Comments on reddit.com
