Anonymous Member 2013-0051.pdf Aaron Swartz: Prison State: Mass Incarceration January 16, 2013 (1.4MB) Chapter 1, Discuss until next Saturday then start Chapter 2, but you can cheat and read ahead. I do not think there are Cliffs Notes for this.
cross post Please go liberate a public domain document and leave a wish or a thought in Aaron’s memory. http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ Welcome to the Aaron Swartz Memorial JSTOR Liberator.
Hi, I'm late to book club because I had to pick up the canapés. Chapter 1 Is the build up of prisons due to foresight? Is it the wise decisions made in time of increasing lawlessness in the streets? The demand for more prisons for crime control is an example of 'big government'. The number of private prisons is small and seems to have plateaued. Most of the increasing prison population and exponential increase in government jobs is a growth of government. The increase in incarcerations has marginalized larger and larger groups of people. The government acts with a "greater exercise of coercive power by some people over others. " It isn't just the growth of governmental services like schools and parks, it is social domination of one group by another... In this case male and non- caucasian. Is is the pleasure of domination and degradation or careful protection of the citizens? Ok your turn.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/12/the-prison-industrial-complex/304669/ ^^ This was written about the rise of for-profit prisons. "Prison State" was written 2008 and he states that the number of for profit prisons has plateaued. He is interested in the philosophical basis of incarceration, do we do it out of fear or desire to dominate? He points out that crimes are aggression, and incarcerating people is also aggression. I think we can't blame rising rates of incarceration on the profit motive of the industry and corruption of politicians (although both of those things are true). I think he is looking at basic human drives that lead to incarcerating other people, different from the usual- looking at the human drives that caused crime. He shows the rise in bigger government is a few ways- increase in jobs in prisons, food service, guards, laundry. The government is growing in power and influence by incarcerating people and at the same time increasing government jobs. We are over-criminalizing behavior at this time and sending more citizens to permanent serfdom both in prison and after release. (After release they can't get a good job because they are felons so they work at substandard wages)
More thoughts This book and "Over-criminalization" directly relate to Aaron Swartz. Over -criminalization makes infractions into felonies, and this book shows how the prison populations have increased as a result of government actions which have helped the government grow. The author does not think the increase in prisons are due to privatization. Our justice system has had a fundamental change.
Arrrh. Just finishing chapter one, due to add and a secret mission. Haven't read the comments ITT, but will contribute/discuss tomorrow if I am not too late.
http://cryptome.org/2013/03/hacking-digital-dissidence.pdf Resistance, Liberation Technology and Human Rights in the Digital Age v 1 Opening Remarks: Hacking and Digital Dissidence .............................. 1 1.1 Using Computers for the Pursuit of Political and Social Changes and for the Bene fi t of All Mankind ..................................... 1 1.2 From Early Hackers to Digital Resistance Activities ........................ 5 1.3 The So-Called Twitter Revolutions .................................................... 7 1.4 The Worldwide Scenario, and Some Preliminary Interpretative Questions ..................................................................... 9 References ................................................................................................... 22 2 Digital Resistance, Digital Liberties and Digital Transparency ........... 27 2.1 A Preliminary De fi nition of Digital Resistance and Digital Liberties .......................................................................... 27 2.1.1 Some Focal Aspects of Digital Dissidence ............................ 27 2.1.2 Preliminary Legal and Political Remarks .............................. 28 2.1.3 The Power of Technology in Critical Contexts and the New Public Sphere .................................................... 30 2.2 The Fundamental Role of a Secure (and Peer-Reviewed) Liberation Technology: The Haystack Case-History ......................... 32 2.3 Two Key Aspects of Digital Resistance Activities, and Several Case Studies ................................................................... 36 2.3.1 The Key Aspects of Dissident Activities ............................... 36 2.3.2 Digital Resistance Case-Studies ............................................. 41 2.4 Open Government, Collaborative Transparency and Civic Hacking as a Form of Digital Resistance .......................... 47 2.4.1 The Idea of Government as a Platform for Transparency..................................................................... 47 2.4.2 The Metaphor of Government 2.0 and the Idea of Collaborative Transparency ............................................... 49 Contents vi 2.4.3 Citizen Engagement for the Oversight of Political Activity ................................................................ 51 2.4.4 Collaborative Mapping and Digital Resistance ...................... 59 References ................................................................................................... 68 3 Hacking and Digital Dissidence Activities .............................................. 73 3.1 The Role of Hackers in the Landscape of Digital Resistance .......... 73 3.2 A First Analysis of Common Threats to Digital Freedom and to Hacker Activities ................................................... 74 3.3 Being a Hacker in This Framework ................................................. 76 3.3.1 Thinking Like a Hacker ....................................................... 76 3.3.2 State Antagonism, Fear and Violence .................................. 79 3.4 A Brand New Playground ................................................................ 81 3.4.1 Liberation Technologies ....................................................... 81 3.4.2 Anonymity and Bloggers’ Rights ........................................ 84 3.4.3 Innovation ............................................................................ 86 3.4.4 Intellectual Property and Privacy ......................................... 86 3.4.5 EPIC Activities in the Field of Privacy ................................ 88 3.4.6 Transparency ........................................................................ 89 3.5 A New Perspective on Hacking ....................................................... 90 3.5.1 The Essence of hacking ....................................................... 90 3.5.2 The Hacker Spirit and Some Lessons from the Ushahidi Project .................................................... 91 3.5.3 A New Breed of Hackers ..................................................... 94 3.6 The Do-It-Yourself Approach ........................................................... 97 3.7 The Hacker Ethic ............................................................................. 99 3.8 Hacking and Crime .......................................................................... 101 3.9 Threats to Hackers ........................................................................... 105 3.9.1 The EFF Report Unintended Consequences ........................ 105 3.9.2 Some Signi fi cant Recent Legal Cases: Cease-and-Desist Actions .................................................... 106 3.10 Hacking Electronic Voting Machines for the Purpose of Transparency ...................................................... 117 References ................................................................................................... 122 4 Digital Resistance, Digital Liberties and Human Rights ....................... 125 4.1 Internet and Human Rights .............................................................. 125 4.2 Internet and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ............... 130 4.3 The Council of Europe and the Human Rights Guidelines for Internet Service Providers: The Role of ISPs in Human Rights Environments and Protection ............................... 133 4.4 The WSIS Declaration of Principles ................................................ 134 4.5 The 2011 United Nations Report on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression ................................................................................. 137 4.6 A Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet ............ 144 Contents vii 4.7 The “Bill of Rights” Projects ........................................................... 152 4.7.1 The Internet Bill of Rights Drafted within the IGF Works ........................................................... 152 4.7.2 The Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition Bill of Rights ........................................................ 154 4.7.3 A Bill of Rights in Cyberspace ............................................ 155 4.7.4 The EFF Bill of Privacy Rights for Social Network Users ..................................................... 156 4.8 A Human Rights Approach to the Mobile Internet ............................ 157 4.9 The Relationship Between Human Rights and Technology Sales to Oppressive Regimes ............................................................. 159 References ................................................................................................... 159 5 The Use of Liberation Technology ........................................................... 161 5.1 Technical Resistance Tactics .............................................................. 161 5.2 Surveillance Self-Defense or Self-Defense Against Surveillance and Monitoring .............................................................. 167 5.3 A Recent Circumvention Tool Usage Report .................................... 169 5.4 Tools and Guides ................................................................................ 171 5.4.1 Leaping Over the Firewall: A Review of Censorship Circumvention Tools by Freedom House ............................. 171 5.4.2 Ten Fundamental Aspects of a Typical Liberation Technology Tool .................................................................. 176 5.4.3 An Interesting (Comparative) Article on Real Anonimity of VPN Systems Users ......................... 180 References ................................................................................................... 184 6 Digital Activism, Internet Control, Transparency, Censorship, Surveillance and Human Rights: An International Perspective ................................................................... 187 6.1 An Introductory Overview ................................................................. 187 6.1.1 The Global OpenNet Initiative Analysis .............................. 187 6.1.2 Techniques and Tools Commonly Used to Censor .............. 201 6.2 An Analysis of Several Countries with Critical Human Rights Issues .......................................................................... 203 6.2.1 Burma: Internet and Human Rights in a Particular Technological, Political and Legal Framework ................... 203 6.2.2 Cuba: Internet Control, User Restrictions, Legal and Regulatory Frameworks, Blogosphere, Digital Dissidents and Civil Society .................................... 214 6.2.3 South Korea: Digital Resistance Issues ............................... 227 6.2.4 Saudi Arabia: The Digital Liberties Landscape ................... 230 6.2.5 Syria: Digital Liberties Issues .............................................. 233 6.2.6 Iran: Internet and Digital Liberties Issues ............................ 239 6.2.7 China: The Internet and Types and Levels of Chinese Internet Censorship ............................................ 247 Contents viii 6.2.8 Turkmenistan: Censorship and Control ............................... 259 6.2.9 Uzbekistan: Internet, Censorship and Surveillance ............. 262 6.2.10 Vietnam: Digital Resistance and Censorship ....................... 269 6.2.11 Australia: Internet Filtering Policies, Digital Liberties and Circumvention Tools ..................................................... 273 6.2.12 Iceland: Digital Resistance Issues and Freedom of Information ................................................ 279 6.2.13 India: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Information and Electronic Censorship ................................................... 283 6.2.14 Russia. Internet and Human Rights: Political and Technological Frameworks ........................................... 290 6.2.15 North Korea: The Main Digital Liberties Issues .................. 295 6.3 Revolts and Digital Dissidence in Egypt and Tunisia: Where It All Began ............................................................................ 301 6.3.1 A Brief Summary of Digital Dissidence in Egypt ............... 301 6.3.2 A Brief Summary of Digital Dissidence in Tunisia ............. 303 References ................................................................................................... 304 7 Conclusions: The Landscape of Digital Liberties and the Future ........ 309 7.1 Human Rights in the Digital Era and the Role of Law ...................... 309 7.2 Technology as an Antibody ................................................................ 311 7.3 The Technological Scenario ............................................................... 313 7.4 The Relationships Between Hacking and Digital Resistance ............ 314 References ................................................................................................... 315 Author Index .................................................................................................... 317 Subject Index ................................................................................................... 321
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Bill McGuire GLOBAL CATASTROPHES A Very Short Introduction Contents Preface ix List of illustrations xv 1 A Very Short Introduction to the Earth 1 2 Global Warming: A Lot of Hot Air? 23 3 The Ice Age Cometh 44 4 The Enemy Within: Super-Eruptions, Giant Tsunamis, and the Coming Great Quake 62 5 The Threat from Space: Asteroid and Comet Impacts 89 Epilogue 113 Appendix A: Threat Timescale 117 Appendix B: Geological Timescale Earth 118 Further reading 119 Index 124
List of illustrations 1 Map of the Earth’s plates with locations of recent disasters 10 Apocalypse , Cassell, 1999 2 The lithosphere 11 Apocalypse , Cassell, 1999 3 Badly damaged building after Indian Ocean tsunami 2004 15 Tiziana Rossetto 4 Ruins of St Pierre (Martinique) after 1902 eruption 16 © Mary Evans Picture Library 5 Increasing concentrations
The first illustration is something like this showing earthquakes around tectonic plates. His arguments highlight natural processes and the relation to danger. For example the pictures of disaster of the past and discussion of the statistical probabilities of recurrence. There is an illustration I can't replicate here showing ocean currents and storms and tectonic plates.
Shiva hypothesis is- [quote]Named after the Hindu god of destruction, the Shiva Hypothesis is a hypothesis that purports to explain an apparent pattern in mass extinctions caused by impact events. The hypothesis, created by Michael Rampino of New York University, says that gravitational disturbances caused by the Solar System crossing the plane of the Milky Way galaxy are enough to disturb comets in the Oort cloud surrounding the Solar System. This sends comets in towards the inner Solar System, which raises the chance of an impact. According to the hypothesis, this results in the Earth experiencing large impact events about every 30 million years (such as the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event). [/quote]
Here are other causes of landslides- quotes from a Washington State plan http://www.emd.wa.gov/plans/documents/Tab_7.1.5_Landslide_final.pdf
https://www.insidehighered.com/news...ling-rights-hacktivist-aaron-swartzs-writings Decision to grant a publisher the right to print the writings of Aaron Swartz -- viewed by some as a martyr of the open-access movement -- sets off a debate about copyright.
Eck. Disregard. https://www.insidehighered.com/news...ling-rights-hacktivist-aaron-swartzs-writings Snip In an open letter, the editors and dozens of other signatories say the restrictions represent a “disconnect” between Swartz’s activism and the publishers’ own rights. “And while you may have labored with all good intentions to ‘compile’ his work in elegant and mobile form, you have done so in a way that nevertheless asserts certain ‘rights’ over that work as well as over its presentation and dissemination in these particular editions in a way that, if perfectly ‘legal,’ is also intellectually and morally dishonest,” the letter reads. The book includes a selection of Swartz’s writings on topics such as computers, politics and media, and opens with an original introduction by Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Swartz’s blog posts are available for free online.
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