Posts with keyword: online+rights

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It's My Browser and I'll Auto-Click if I Want To!

Fri Oct 30 15:02:00 2009

A month ago, I posted a piece claiming my right to a purpose-centric web. In it, I stated: I claim the right to mash-up, remix, annotate, augment, and otherwise modify Web content for my purposes in my browser using any tool I choose and I extend to everyone else that same privilege. Not surprisingly, the EFF agrees with me. Not on this exact issue, but in the spirit of the user having the right to control the experience on their own machine. They say: Free file hosting provider MediaFire seems to think that, when you follow
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Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

Thu Sep 24 08:50:00 2009

Image via CrunchBase Yesterday Google released a small project called SideWiki. SideWiki, enabled by the Google Toolbar, allows people to write commentary about Web pages and see the comments that other have left. The service is opt-in: people can install the toolbar or not and even when it's there, turn SideWiki off if they don't want to see it. But it's not opt-in for a site--you can comment on any page without the permission of the owner. The reaction has been interesting. I've seen tweets from people about how they thought it was wrong for people to be able
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