X-Cop Fly Company

Going over old posts, I deleted those that either: 1. Contained YouTube videos of MAFIAA actors and musicians, with little or no commentary, whether or not they (or their users) had been removed at the MAFIAA’s request. Excluded were some posts where I could pull the video and have a part of the post be [...]

From GlobalResearchTV via Repeal the 17th Amendment: Beyond SOPA: The Past, Present, and Future of Internet Censorship Transcript available at The Corbett Report

You may have seen The X-Cop Fly Company (and its sister site, Rogue Central) take part in the “American Censorship Day” protest on the 16th. This was an effort to stop the creation of the Great Firewall of America (aka “Internet Blacklist Bills”). If you did not see the “Stop Censorship” banner on Mozilla, Techdirt, [...]

Conservatives always define one of their key goals as “limited government”. But what is “limited government”? The definition conservatives usually give includes less regulations on businesses, less funding for government programs, less government agencies, etc. But what exactly is to limit? And how much do we limit it? We can support “free speech on the [...]

Quotes from “What the State Fears Most: Information” by Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan: Presently, our ability to attain knowledge is threatened because said knowledge represents a threat to the state — not to “national security,” as is claimed, but to the legitimacy of the state itself. Julian Assange, through WikiLeaks, has made available to society [...]

Fox News on another attempt by Democrats to shut it down, with Congress being so desperate that they are now ignoring the existence of the remote control in their speeches: “I’m tired of the right and the left,” West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller said Wednesday during a Senate hearing on retransmission consent. “There’s a little [...]

There have been a lot of posts (and political lobbying) within the past few years by a dying Media 1.0 establishment and a gullible public to discourage the creation and reading of blogs, this time by encouraging Twitter and Facebook as replacements for blogs. Examples: 1 2 3 4 Rather than go on a standard [...]

There were actually 3 parts to the review I posted yesterday, I only put up Part 2. Here are all 3. Apparently Warner fucks are roughing up minors again, so #3 might get “muted” in its entirety for a Whitesnake clip in the credits (it is muted on other usernames). (Click here for the previous [...]

When I heard that Pakistan had blocked access to 800+ sites as a reaction to the Everyone Draw Muhammad Day campaigns, I was just curious as to whether my site was affected, given the recent anti-Islam statements. So I decided to find a proxy server based in Pakistan, plug the settings into Firefox and check [...]

Some commenters have been asking whether or not the site can be quoted or reproduced. I have been putting off deciding this – I will not use the popular Creative Commons licenses because later versions include a sneak GPL-style provision allowing relicensing under “compatible licenses” approved by Creative Commons (the organization) as “in the spirit” [...]