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This is just another example of some of the threats we are facing as already quite oppressive governments who let their power be heavily abused by corporate interests increasingly turn to the use of technology to regulate everything we do, against our freedom.

When they start using technological locks, just civil disobedience wont do. The only way to fight back against technological locks is by technological means. This is one case where Freedomware plays a crucial role, not so much because "copyleft" licenses state you have certain rights, but because it usually comes with source code.

an insightful essay about internal freedom of speech

While this is not directly technology related it is quite alarming for our freedoms. I wouldn't say I believe every word in this article, but it is still quite intriguing and I do believe that the EU can hardly lead to good. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we soon find that the EU is de facto becoming a single state, as United States of Europe.

In fact, during the fight of freedom, and also after independence, the patriotic songs of films appreciated great popularity with our masses. In the 40s early, when the patriotic fervour was with its peak following the stopped movement of India launched by Gandhi, a song which took the whole nation close give the attack to came from the 'Kismet of film' (1943). The song was, hai of will lalkara of fredonnement to phir of of choti of ki of Himalay of 'Aaj, hato of hard, will hamara it hai. of Hindustan of walo of duniya of hatto AI of hard.

Someone accidentally posted this link in an IRC channel and since I was curious I checked it out. It's a pretty nice and functional map of freedom in the world, mapping countries in three categories: not free, partly free and free.

From a quick survey of the map it looks like the half of the world, and counting such highly populated places like China, even more than half live without essential freedoms, which is quite sad.