Facebook: Unblock BugMeNot

Last year, we helped lead a successful campaign against Facebook's privacy invading beacon program. When Facebook refused to drop Beacon, we got their advertisers to drop them. When Facebook said they dropped Beacon, we showed that they lied. Throughout the campaign, we kept on the heat. The campaign was covered by Slashdot, Digg, CNN, USA Today, and hundreds of other news ourlets. Eventually, we won.

Later, a union organizer had his account closed without any good reason. With other union groups, we fought to have it reinstated. Once again, we won.

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The Fight Continues: Facebook Sued for Violating Privacy of Users With "Beacon" Program 1 year 31 weeks ago

I was notified today through an anonymous source that a class action lawsuit was filed against Facebook today for their Beacon program. The defendants in the suit are Facebook and advertisers who used their Beacon program such as Blockbuster, Fandango, Hotwire, Overstock, Zappos, Gamefly, and 40 "doe" corporations. Earlier this year, Binary Freedom helped lead a successful campaign to stop Beacon.

Binary Freedom Sued by Anti-Digg Suzanne Shell 47 weeks 4 days ago

You can see our response here.
Dear Binary Freedom Supporters,

from Dailyradical

Is' Hackers' to serve Rupert Murdoch to sabotage the competition?
(Translated to English with google translator)

Please digg at http://digg.com/politics/The_File_Cryptome_Wouldn_t_Host_Picture_of_US_A...
from https://hackbloc.org/node/1991

Online censorship in the USA 1 year 49 weeks ago

Internationally the word is spreading about the US Online censorship
on Youtube, Facebook and government like this article from theNewYork Times

The blacklist of sites associated with Cuba in OFAC

http://www.binaryfreedom.info 1 year 48 weeks ago

Binaryfreedom.iNfo a site for digital revolution!!!

from power to the people, to power online corporations? 1 year 46 weeks ago

With out taking sides on the matter and only focusing on the fact that yahoo will give confidential information to a government, in this particular case to a foreign government .. but foreign or not, people needs to know or start to care about all this tools they use in the internet with out thinking in the political seeds they are helping create giving this corporations their power in popularity and market share.. think twice before using yahoo/google/myspace and such corporate manipulatory tools and such..

Manifiesto por el Software Comunitario (Rev. 1) 1 year 4 weeks ago

Manifiesto por el Software Comunitario (Rev. 1)
- lunes, 22 de diciembre de 2008
Manifiesto por el Software Comunitario
"No es un extremo es revolución"
00:17 12/11/2008.

Hasta ahora nos han hablando de licencias, es hora de hablar de quienes son las manos que escriben todos los códigos fuentes del mundo.

http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=5900
Background History

The way we write software both now and in the past is heavily influenced by the history of software and computers. People tend to think as software being a recent phenomena, which it is and thus they do not tend to think in terms of histories. Its as if not a long enough time period has elapsed for history to begin.