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On Saturday January 16, 2016 Wikimedia NYC will celebrate Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday with a miniconference, hosted by NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Ar...

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On Wednesday May 21 2014 at 3pm the Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) and RECLAIM.CC, as part of Internet Week NY, will present Libtech NYC 2014 – a half-day conference to “envi...

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Policies mandating DNS filtering undermine the open architecture of the Internet and raise human rights and freedom of expression concerns – The Internet Society Board of Trustees has expresse...

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ISOC-NY President David Solomonoff writes about the pitfalls of prescriptions for Internet freedom: Hackers Fight For Freedom With Net Tech; Ignore Politics, Psychology At Their Peril Internet fr...

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ISOC-NY is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Students For Free Culture 2011 Conference (SFC NYC) to be held February 19th-20th 2011 at NYU. Susan Crawford and the diaspora developers will be keynot...

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The Internet Society has issued a statement on the current situation in Egypt. “We are following the current events in Egypt with concern as it appears that all incoming and outgoing Internet t...

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The Internet Society has issued a statement criticizing recent technical efforts to suppress the Wikileaks website. It reads as follows: Recently, we have witnessed the effective disappearance fr...

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On Thurs. Mar 25 ISOC-NY hosted Prof. Jinyang Li in a talk about the use of distributed systems, and particularly the use of the Kaleidoscope Firefox plug-in, in circumventing censorship. This is...

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A joint effort by the both the Art Law and the IP Law Societies at Cardozo School of Law, this Feb. 24 2010 panel set out to consider the implications/possibilities of the Google Books Settlement...

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What: ISOC-NY Movie Night : Copyright Criminals Where: Rm. 109, Warren Weaver Hall NYU, 250 Mercer St NYC When: Friday Mar 5, 7:00pm, Who: Public Welcome. Admission Free. Sponsors: ISOC-NY, FreeC...

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A Huffington Post story details the effects of DMCA notice served on Hurricane Electric by the US Chamber of Commerce to take down a spoof site by the Yes-men – the site suggests that the Chamb...

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WHAT:  Memefactory is a performance for anyone who uses the internet. Whether you are perplexed by pictures of cats with awful spelling or spend over 9000 hours a week surfing image boards, we p...

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The Open Video Conference is taking place today and tomorrow at NYU. The proceedings, and associated twitters, can be followed live on the website.

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The NYC Council Tech Committee recently held a public hearing after the Broadway and TV industries lobbied for a resolution urging the FCC to withhold approval of White Space Devices (WSDs) for b...

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If you believe that every Internet user should have the right to freedom of speech without gatekeepers; if you believe that every person should have access to fast, affordable, open Internet then...

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In its latest Community podcast idealist.org interviews Dana Spiegel and Laura Forlano from NYCwireless to hear more about their mission and projects. They look at how NYCwireless is working to b...

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The National Conference for Media Reform is taking place this weekend. It features a packed program of panels, seminars and performances – many of which are being streamed online. There is also...

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YouTomb is a research project of MIT Free Culture. The purpose of the project is to investigate what kind of videos are subject to takedown notices due to allegations of copyright infringement wi...

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