internetassociation:

In celebrating America’s freedom and independence on the 4th of July, The Internet Association encourages all Americans to take a moment to recognize an important aspect of our freedom – the Fourth Amendment.

Since our inception, The Internet Association and our member companies have been…

Excellent choices (no surprise there).

nonduality:

50. HAIM – Don’t Save Me
49. Cat Power – Ruin
48. Sky Ferreira – Everything is Embarrassing
47. VCMG – Skip This Track
46. Spirit Spine – Delta
45. Heartsrevolution – Not That Hard To Explain
44. TOY – Make It Mine
43. Dum Dum Girls – Lord Knows
42. Pond – Leisure Pony
41. Widowspeak – Ballad of the Golden Hour
40. David Byrne & St. Vincent – Who
39. Tilly and the Wall – Love Riot
38. Tamaryn – The Garden
37. Gigamesh – Your Body (JBAG Remix)
36. Scissor Sisters – Let’s Have a Kiki
35. Wild Nothing – Paradise
34. Mind Spiders – Wait For Us
33. Lower Dens – Alphabet Song
32. CSS – I’ve Seen You Drunk Gurl
31. Beach House – Other People
30. Liars – No.1 Against the Rush (Vince Clarke Remix)
29. Magic Wands – Space
28. Moonface – Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips
27. Rufus Wainwright – Sometimes You Need
26. Little Dragon – Sunshine
25. Future Islands – Cotton Flower
24. Twin Shadow – Five Seconds
23. Azealia Banks – Fierce
22. She’s So Rad – Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart
21. Modeselektor – Evil Twin
20. M.I.A. – Bad Girls (N.A.R.S. Remix feat. Missy Elliot & Azealia Banks)
19. St. Vincent – Krokodil
18. Kylie Minogue – Timebomb
17. Crocodiles – My Surfing Lucifer
16. Professor Possessor – Another Kind
15. A$AP Rocky – Ridin’ (feat. Lana Del Rey)
14. Rye Rye – Boom Boom
13. Sleigh Bells – Comeback Kid
12. Bear in Heaven – Sinful Nature
11. Die Antwoord – Fatty Boom Boom
10. Porcelain Raft – Shapeless & Gone
9. Charli XCX – Stay Away
8. Hot Chip – Don’t Deny Your Heart
7. Lana Del Rey – Cola
6. Purity Ring – Obedear
5. Garbage – Felt
4. Thee Oh Sees – Lupine Dominus
3. Zola Jesus – In Your Nature (David Lynch Remix)
2. Lana Del Rey – National Anthem
1. Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra – Do It with a Rockstar

A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills — if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat — add your voice now!

(via Instapaper)

“An underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet’s addressing system”

“Not only violates basic principles of due process by depriving persons of property without a fair hearing and a reasonable opportunity to be heard, it also constitutes an unconstitutional abridgement of the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has made it abundantly clear that governmental action suppressing speech, if taken prior to an adversary proceeding and subsequent judicial determination that the speech in question is unlawful, is a presumptively unconstitutional prior restraint. In other words, it is the most serious and the least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights.”

“These bills, and the enforcement philosophy that underlies them, represent a dramatic retreat from this country’s tradition of leadership in supporting the free exchange of information and ideas on the Internet. At a time when many foreign governments have dramatically stepped up their efforts to censor Internet communications, these bills would incorporate into U.S. law a principle more closely associated with those repressive regimes.”

This makes me so angry and sad at the same time.

Via nonduality:

Allen L. Roland:

With the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA), America takes another giant step toward tyranny. It was the White House that wanted this bill applied to U.S. Citizens with minor modifications as America slides towards fascism as well as the…

Mood Six seems to be a promising collection of good Tumblr things, from someone whose posts I already often like, and others I’m intrigued to see more from.

Via proustitute:

I’m very honored to be part of this exciting new Tumblr and among such fine people. Please reblog, follow, and spread the word. These are all wonderful people whom you likely follow individually; the idea of a collective Tumblr and the dialogue that these different mediums can have with one…