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Iraq Makes Weblines

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Internet brings together Americans against war
By Duncan Campbell

This Saturday hundreds of thousands of Americans will be protesting in the streets against the possibility of war in Iraq and bombarding politicians with their views. One of the key organisations coordinating the protests is the brainchild of two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who saw the internet as a way of channeling political protest.

MoveOn was started in 1998 by Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, two software entrepreneurs who, along with friends and family, felt that what they saw as the “continuing obsession” with the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal was damaging the political process, and that it was time to “move on” and away from impeachment. They started the website and used it as a way of reaching people with similar views who would coordinate protests and send their views to politicians and the media. During the impeachment row, they generated more than 250,000 phone calls and 1m emails to Congress.

Cross-Blog Iraq Debate: The Questions

“OK folks, the first phase of our Cross-Blog Iraq Debate is over, and now it’s time to get busy with the real fun!”

Listed below are the five questions developed here on TTLB to be answered by the anti-war crowd, as well as the five questions that Stand Down has put together for pro-war bloggers to address.

If you’d like to join the debate, it’s easy: just go ahead and answer the appropriate set of questions on your weblog, and then let either myself or Stand Down know with a TrackBack ping or comment. On February 17th, a roundup of responses will be posted here and at Stand Down.

Let The Misinformation Begin

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This is comforting.

Feds pull suspicious .gov site
By Declan McCullagh

“WASHINGTON–In a move that raises questions about the security of governmental domains, the Bush administration has pulled the plug on a .gov Web site pending an investigation into the authenticity of the organization that controlled it.”

Powerful New U.S. Intelligence Service (AONN DSI)

I happened to notice your AONN post when researching programs related to highly secret government intelligence operations/ programs and trained government assassins. I did some digging, made some phone calls, conducted some research and discovered some very fascinating facts. AONN under a secret Department of Defense/ Pentagon charter in connection with the Central Intelligence Agency Law Enforcement Group (yes, believe it or not, the CIA has a law enforcement arm/ aspect/ network (even though it is not part of the CIA charter, per se).

cache of AONN.gov

Spam Be Gone

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I really hope this works.

In Search of the Perfect Spam Filter
Techies immerse themselves in spam to craft a filter that renders mass e-mail marketing ineffective (and undesirable).
By Scarlet Pruitt

"BOSTON–The roughly 500 programmers, researchers, hackers, and IT administrators who gathered in a chilly classroom on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday aren’t just looking to slow the relentless onslaught of spam–they want to completely destroy its business model."

Generic Eric

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I used to greatly dislike having a very generic name. The age of ‘googling’ has changed my mind. In commonality there is privacy. Google me. I dare ya. 😉

A Nation of Voyeurs
How the Internet search engine Google is changing what we can find out about one another – and raising questions about whether we should
By Neil Swidey

“Michael is a clean-cut 34-year-old working in a professional job at a Boston medical school. You’d never know he did time for burglary and is a former drug addict. Well, actually, you would if you Googled him. Go to the Google.com home page and type in Michael’s name (for obvious reasons, we are not including his last name here). That simple step produces more than 100 links to documents written by and about Michael. The search, Google proudly notes, takes just a 10th of a second. “

Some Bans Are Bad

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This is what happens when you don’t have a written constitution.

Internet Hate-Speech Ban Called ‘Chilling’
Council of Europe’s Internet restrictions raise uneasy questions about civil rights online.
By Michelle Madigan

“WASHINGTON–As European leaders move to ban Internet hate speech and seek support from the United States, civil liberties groups charge that the proposal would violate free-speech rights.”