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WPTavern: Uncensoring The Web With RePress

Published on January 28, 2012 By Jeffro

A brand new plugin released by GreenHost aims to make censoring the web next to impossible. It’s called RePress and turns any WordPress powered website it’s installed on into a proxy server. The plugin was created in response to piratebay.o…

Mike Little: WordPress — 9 years since it’s conception

Published on January 25, 2012 By Mike Little

Simon D reminded me that it is now nine years since my fateful comment on Matt’s blog that kicked off this whole WordPress thing!
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Matt: Hollywood and the Justice System

Published on January 21, 2012 By Matt

Two excellent essays on how Hollywood has completely put our legal system out of whack through years of twisting our legislative process to their ends, or as Shirky put it “imagine the possibility of a longer jail term for streaming a Michael Jac…

Jane Wells: Blackout

Published on January 18, 2012 By Jane Wells

The blackout on WordPress.org is active. It is an interstitial, but you have to scroll all the way to the bottom to get the clickthrough link. It will go away if you click that link and be replaced by the Stop Censorship ribbon for 1 hour, at which poi…

Dev Blog: Internet Blackout Day on January 18

Published on January 17, 2012 By Jane Wells

WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the powe…


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