Today, I was checking out the site logs and I noticed that there was a DDoS attack taking place on the servers; at first it was very slow loading and then the attack increased and resulted in taking our servers offline mostly all day Sunday. I notified the hosting company and they took care of the servers by nulling root access to any machine on the subnet. Who could be attacking our website? Read More

It is no secret that Hollywood is trying to take down as many pirated movies as they can, but their targeting of a Creative Commons Pirate Bay documentary is something new. Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate have all asked Google to take down links pointing to the Pirate Bay documentary TPB-AFK. But is it a secret plot to silence the voices of the Pirate Bay’s founders, or just another screw up of automated DMCA takedowns? Read More

The second-in-command at the US Department of Homeland Security is stepping down as deputy secretary in order to sign-on for a role with the United Nations. But as Jane Holl Lute changes venues, will she change the world’s Internet as well?

Lute confirmed to Reuters this week that she will offer the DHS her official resignation in the coming days and will exit the third-largest agency in the federal government to join the ranks of the UN. There, she says an interview published on Tuesday, she will pursue a role in international Internet affairs. Read More

What do economic inequality, scientific materialism, and human consciousness have in common? All 3 of them represent important pillars of our current economic and social arrangements, and, all 3 are topics of TED presentations surrounded by controversy, with many people claiming censorship by the revered idea broker.

TED, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’ has inspired the world many times over with the quality and variety of their conferences, speakers and topics. Read More

by Mike Adams

In yet another stunning victory for the alternative media (InfoWars, Drudge Report, Natural News, WND, etc.), the story of the U.S. government stockpiling huge quantities of ammunition (1.6 billion rounds and counting) has finally broken through media censorship and gone mainstream. Read More

By David Murphy

Iranians face a decent amount of governmental censorship when they attempt to log into the Internet from their country. However, for even the most not-so-savvy of tech folk, receiving unfettered access to the Web at large is as easy as firing up a VPN application and tunneling your way past governmental blocks. Read More

This video is in some ways equally as disturbing as the torture and murders carried out by FSA insurgents now being backed by our tax money in Syria because it illustrates the general day to day drudgery of a society run by thugs who have seized power.

The clip shows FSA rebels humiliating and slapping around an elderly man who became a local celebrity in Aleppo for wearing a yellow costume in an attempt to make people happy. Read More

Madison Ruppert
Activist Post

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Military Commissions Review appealing a Guantánamo military judge’s order allowing the government to censor any testimony that touches on the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody. Read More

Last week, we told you that CISPA was coming back, and it’s now been confirmed that it is coming back tomorrow and it will be identical to the extremely flawed bill that passed the House last year. Read More

(RT) As incoming CIA chief John Brennan prepares to answer questions from Congress, some of the biggest names in US media are under attack for hiding a secret drone base that the Obama nominee helped build.

Reports in the New York Times and Washington Post this week confirm that the United States Central Intelligence Agency, which Brennan might very soon head, established a top-secret launching pad in Saudi Arabia used to send American drones into Yemen. Read More

By Casey Newton

A video showing a gun magazine created by a 3D printer was pulled off YouTube today, only to reappear later in the afternoon. Read More

Youtube has been blocked in Egypt for 30 days in a move to punish the site for hosting a film which labelled the nation ‘anti-Islamic.’ The video-sharing website was ordered to be be blocked from Egypt’s internet IPs by Egyptian Judge Hassouna Tawfiq, saying that the film which was hosted on the site was “offensive to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.” Read More

By Alex Fitzpatrick

Looking for public Wi-Fi in your town or city? The hunt may be about to get easier: the Federal Communications Commission is reportedly considering the development of free and public “super Wi-Fi” networks across the United States. Read More

People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web.

The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It’s already happening, and it all began with the lifestream, a phenomenon that I (with Eric Freeman) predicted in the 1990s and shared in the pages of Wired almost exactly 16 years ago. Read More

by Zen Gardner

Did someone offend someone? OMG, it’s a felony! Did someone have a protest to some posting or video? Shut the fucker down!! That’s right. Anyone can be a little hired Stasi piece of shit minion for the police state now and bring about the State’s desired results. Especially if you’re a little shithead hired to do so in a depressed economy and willing to back some sick power crazed pack of controlling minions because you’re a sack of crap. Read More