Google Is Gearing Up For Evil Empire Mode - Start Using Alternatives

It’s taken a while, but Google has finally caved in to pressure from the entertainment industries including the MPAA and RIAA. The search engine now actively censors terms including BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent, RapidShare and Megaupload from its instant and autocomplete services. The reactions from affected companies and services are not mild, with BitTorrent Inc., RapidShare and Vodo all speaking out against this act of commercial censorship.

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Reading through the comments I came across https://encrypted.google.com/ which us a version of Google that sends info packets between your computer and Google encrypted, and therefore more secure. This is cool, and may be a good resource until we develop a robust distributed open source search engine.

(Another cool trick I learned from the comments: "You can specify filetype:torrent in your search query. So if you're looking for the lord of the rings, you can search for: lord of the rings filetype:torrent.")

On the privacy front, here's a selection from a recent post on net-privacy from Emergent By Design:

Microsoft recently announced a new feature for Internet Explorer 9, called Tracking Protection Lists, enabling consumers to limit the data third-party sites can collect about them. Yesterday, Mozilla announced they will incorporate a Do Not Track header into the upcoming Firefox 4.1, which would essentially notify each website the user visits that they want to opt-out of third party, advertising-based tracking. And Google just made a new Chrome extension available called Keep My Opt-Outs, which permanently opts your browser out of online ad personalization via cookies.

While these efforts are underway for our browsers, tools are also being developed for our social networks. WSJ just covered a new tool called uProtect.it, whose tagline is “Protection from Facebook on Facebook.” The free app encrypts your comments and posts, making them inaccessible to unwanted viewers, including Facebook itself.

That reminds me. Just want to point out that ANONYMOUS is hanging out at the Egyption protests, and that if your a centralized, hierarchical organization of social repression, you better start packing your bags.



Oh and that reminds me too. I'm posting the video below because ends with some ass clown cop (offcer Rivieri) shouting "Is that camera on?! If I find myself on YouT...". Just wanted to let the fascist bitch know that he IS on YouTube and there's nothing his power-hungry ass can do about it. Clown.