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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Benetech is one of the largest developers of software for human rights activists around the world. Wonderful stuff.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So how do we propose to pay for it? Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones. Peter Campbell equates Buying Software To Buying A House , a great metaphor, inbetween working on site redesign for the NPTech Community site. The media here IS the service. Deborah Finn throws in her two cents here. And some background reading.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Benetech is one of the largest developers of software for human rights activists around the world. Wonderful stuff.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results. The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’.

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