Internet Security League creates an emergency network
July 19, the Internet Protection League began its work. Its members include Mozilla, WordPress, Reddit, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and many other organizations. The goal of the League is to protect the Internet from attacks on its freedom by bureaucratic organizations and monopolies. The tactics of the League are based on techniques developed during the struggle against SOPA and PIPA . League members create an emergency alert network that will be activated in the event of the next threat to the freedom and independence of the Internet. This network will promptly and consistently disseminate information about the threat and how to prevent it. For example, it may be a call to write an appeal to the authorities, to join a petition, boycott or strike. Instead of scattered actions of individual enthusiasts, the Internet should respond to any attacks instantly and in an organized way. Anyone can join the league.
How it works? Each site that joined the League places a script on its pages through which alerts will be distributed in the form of modal windows or sockets in the header of the site. You can configure the script to automatically broadcast the messages of all the League’s campaigns, or manually join only those campaigns that the site owners support.
In addition, a league badge can be placed on the site, available in a variety of options. The cat is chosen as the symbol of the Internet Protection League. The theory of Internet activism and cute cats was invented by American blogger and activist Ethan Zuckerman. She argues that the majority of Internet users are completely uninterested in activism, they are only interested in primitive entertainment such as pornography or videos with cute cats. But the tools, originally created for users to post cute cats (Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal), are great for activists. If the government is trying to limit such tools, not only Internet activists are suffering, which, by and large, do not care, but also huge masses of lovers of seals who may stop voting for this government or even rebel.
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To cause a sufficient public response, it is necessary to explain to lovers of cute cats, what they may lose. A cat muzzle (“cat signal”) should appear on a variety of sites, like a bat silhouette over Gotham City (“bat signal”), as soon as a serious danger appears on the horizon. The immediate goal of the League is to prevent the adoption of CISPA .
How it works? Each site that joined the League places a script on its pages through which alerts will be distributed in the form of modal windows or sockets in the header of the site. You can configure the script to automatically broadcast the messages of all the League’s campaigns, or manually join only those campaigns that the site owners support.
In addition, a league badge can be placed on the site, available in a variety of options. The cat is chosen as the symbol of the Internet Protection League. The theory of Internet activism and cute cats was invented by American blogger and activist Ethan Zuckerman. She argues that the majority of Internet users are completely uninterested in activism, they are only interested in primitive entertainment such as pornography or videos with cute cats. But the tools, originally created for users to post cute cats (Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal), are great for activists. If the government is trying to limit such tools, not only Internet activists are suffering, which, by and large, do not care, but also huge masses of lovers of seals who may stop voting for this government or even rebel.
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To cause a sufficient public response, it is necessary to explain to lovers of cute cats, what they may lose. A cat muzzle (“cat signal”) should appear on a variety of sites, like a bat silhouette over Gotham City (“bat signal”), as soon as a serious danger appears on the horizon. The immediate goal of the League is to prevent the adoption of CISPA .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/148127/
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