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10 minutes ago | Tags: the state vs feminism | Notes: 2

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The American legal system believes that the state has more legitimate interest in stopping people from being sexually aroused than in countering sexism or violence. Don’t you think those are bizarre priorities?

As a matter of principle, the state should have no power to censor. Furthermore, the state’s backwards priorities present a good argument for its abolition. In addition to abolishing the state, we should seek to stop its toxic and bigoted standards from defining the privately run social media spaces we use.
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- Nathan Goodman, When It Comes to Misogyny, Facebook Learned from the US Government

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20 hours ago | Tags: freed markets vs Monopoly | Notes: 2

"Wealthy and influential people have encroached on public lands…, often with help of officials in land-administration and management departments. Among other examples, hundreds of housing companies in urban areas have started to demarcate their project area using pillars and signboard before receiving titles. They use local musclemen with guns and occupy local administrations, including the police. Most of the time, land owners feel obliged to sell their productive resources to the companies at a price inferior to market value. Civil servants within the government support these companies and receive some plot of land in exchange."

- Sheldon Richman, Bangladeshi Workers Need Freed Markets

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2 days ago | Tags: the state vs Open-source Insurgency | Notes: 3

U.S. seizes operator accounts of major Japanese Bitcoin exchange

US authorities seized the accounts of a Bitcoin digital currency exchange operator, claiming it was functioning as an “unlicensed money service business,” court documents showed Friday.

A warrant revealed by the Department of Homeland Security showed a judge signed the seizure order Tuesday for the accounts of Mutum Sigillum LCC, a subsidiary of Japan-based Mt. Gox, the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange.

The warrant said the account based on the electronic payments platform Dwolla and held at Veridian Credit Union “was used to move money” as “part of an unlicensed money service” in violation of US law. …

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3 days ago | Tags: IP vs humanity | Notes: 28

"So-called “intellectual property” is not legitimate property at all, but a state-enforced monopoly every bit as protectionist as the industrial tariffs of a century ago. Like the tariff, “intellectual property” creates artificial scarcity in goods that are not scarce by nature, enabling privileged corporations to extract rents from that scarcity. The global corporations of the 21st century are as dependent on “intellectual property” for their profits as the old national industrial corporations of the early 20th century were on tariffs. Tariffs ceased to be useful to big business, and “intellectual property” became useful, because corporations became global. Because “international trade” actually consists mostly of internal transfer of goods between local subsidiaries of global corporations, tariffs no longer serve the interests of giant corporations. Like the tariff, “intellectual property” is a government restriction on who may sell a given type of good in a given market, enabling the beneficiary to charge whatever consumers can pay. But unlike the tariff, which was a form of protectionism that regulated the transfer of goods across national boundaries, “intellectual property” regulates the transfer of goods across corporate boundaries."

- Kevin Carson, Sweatshops the “Best Available Alternative”? But Who Decides What Alternatives are Available?

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1 week ago | Tags: the state vs everyone | Notes: 2

"State institutions are full of conflicts of interest. Can the interests of citizens really be represented in the halls of power? At every turn we see invested corporate interests, “oversight” of economic liberty, bail outs, a revolving door between government officials and the business/banking community, austerity measures and more. The Department of Interior, charged with protecting and managing our National Parks is the same bureaucracy that issues mountaintop removal permits and leases public lands to oil and gas companies. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy are often used as jobs programs (especially now, with the natural gas boom) rather than institutions dedicated to protecting our environment and serving the public interest. Even as 40,000 strong marched on DC for “Forward on Climate,” our nations largest climate protest in history, Obama and top administration officials were golfing with oil and gas tycoons. Even still, with all the corporate welfare, even in the age of too big to fail, state capitalism is somehow still the American way and challenging the status quo is unpatriotic. It is red ruin on wheels to elevate working people."

- Grant Mincy, Freedom Out Of Bounds

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1 week ago | Tags: the state vs Open-source Insurgency | Notes: 3

US government attempts to stifle 3D-printer gun designs will ultimately fail

Like the ‘war on drugs’, trying to regulate 3D printing may be an invitation to disaster, no matter how honorable the intentions …

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1 week ago | Tags: cooperatives vs the state | Notes: 34

Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Factory Occupation

Workers at the New Era Windows Cooperative are celebrating the grand opening of their new unionized, worker-owned and -operated business.

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1 week ago | Tags: the state vs Open-source Insurgency | Notes: 9

Liberator - First 3D Printable Gun, look no further than the Pirate Bay!

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1 week ago | Tags: the state vs Open-source Insurgency | Notes: 7

State Department Requests Defense Distributed Remove Digital Blueprints for ‘Liberator’ Gun

Well, that didn’t take long. The State Department’s Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance has requested that Defense Distributed remove the digital blueprint for its “Liberator” 3D-printable gun. Where a link to the blueprint once appeared, DD’s website now features this message: (see image)

And this warning:

DEFCAD files are being removed from public access at the request of the US Department of Defense Trade Controls. Until further notice, the United States government claims control of the information. …

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1 week ago | Tags: the state vs Open-source Insurgency | Notes: 22

State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D-Printable Gun Files For Possible Export Control Violations