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The Free Internet Act Crowdsource Authoring Tool
by jasperfixx | January 31st, 2012Summary From Reddit:
"The Internet Freedom Act: To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation by preventing the restriction of liberty and preventing the means of censorship. IFA will allow internet users to browse freely without any means of censorship, users have the right to free speech and to free knowledge; we govern the content of the internet, governments don't. However enforcements/laws must also be put into place to protect copyrighted content.
Propose Changes to OPEN: the Better SOPA Alternative
by jasperfixx | January 18th, 2012Propose specific changes you would like to see to OPEN (text is attached as pdf).
DMCA was, and has been, bad enough. Can we consider alternative mechanisms? One great thing about this site is that we're not just leaving it to the politicians to figure out a solution. Similarly, they are not left in the lurch to figure it out by themselves. :)
History Teachers: your countries' history in collaboration with other peers
by RacerX | December 3rd, 2011What if history teachers (and others) began to write and maintain an alternative, online History Book for their own region / country.
This could be a wonderful alternative, written by authors living and breathing the current times, to publish (and now, online media) educational materials.
Ideally, teachers in the future could select free materials (from the Commons) written by a great number of collaborators, offering, in theory, a more accurate depiction of historical events than the material that is often found in books presented by large publishers.