Activism: causes and principles I stand for

Personal

◦ Against smoking and all drugs, ostracism (on a personal level) to those who actively defend using them.

◦ Fast food chains and Shopping Malls: never using when there is a viable option available.

◦ Videogames: not playing and ostracism (on a personal level) to those who actively defend it as something beneficial or innocuous.

◦ Avoiding industrial made sugary/diet soft drinks.

◦ Actively avoiding anything connected with intrusive or excessive publicity. Against any form of invasion to the daily flow of consciousness in order to sell something or some idea.

◦ While using social networks, to avoid mere criticism. Not to be kind (likes, +1, favorites, shares, comments, retweets) to mere criticisms without an activist basis such as the ones described here.

◦ More animal rights.

Causes on a civil level

◦ Absolute freedom of private communications, including copies of copyrighted files through peer to peer networks.

◦ Freedom and anonymity (not guaranteed by the Brazilian bill of rights) of public speech, all due civil restrictions guarded (defamation, hate speech).

◦ Severe limitations on advertisement, for instance prohibition of street advertisement (sound, visual) of any kind.

◦ Decreasing the time of copyright royalties to something around 5 years.

◦ Profound reform on patent law, which is obcene for pharmaceutics, and causes unproductive results to many areas, e.g. software.

◦ Limitation or elimination of possibilities and notions around corporate personhood.

◦ Gun control on civil populations on all contries.

◦ Internet neutrality.

◦ Free speech with privacy and anonymity.

◦ For the continuous regulation of financial markets, particularly "high frequency trades" and such.

◦ Regulation for compulsory release of prices and conditions on public databases for easy consult and comparison.

◦ Radical Transparency.

◦ Direct democracy and progressively less representation.

◦ Dynamic granulation of decision locations. (Making the discussions on centralization/descentralization obsolete by using adaptive social statistics tools).

◦ Sustainability.

◦ For measures to decrease inequalities, in the sense of Rawls' Difference Principle. Progressive taxes and measures to equalise the access to justice institutions.

Technological causes

◦ All software is free. All hardware should be free. All hardware and software should be open. Radical transparency for software and hardware.

◦ Against all forms of DRM

◦ Against iTunes.

◦ Against Adobe Flash.

◦ Against Netflix, Hulu, Crackle etc. All streaming non p2p services.

◦ Support to jailbreaks, cracks, hackintoshes etc.

◦ For regulations on universal use of adapters, chargers and batteries.

◦ For regulations to ease the access and DIY fixing of our own devices.

Companies I try to boycott as widely as possible

◦ Amazon

◦ Apple

◦ Editora Abril

◦ MacDonald's

◦ Facebook

◦ Google

◦ Burger King

◦ Starbucks

◦ Adidas

◦ Nike

◦ Harley-Davidson Motor Company

◦ HarperCollins Publishers

◦ Netflix

◦ Pfizer

◦ Walmart

My Political Compass

◦ 1st (Jun 2009) ec left -6.13, soc libertarian -5.85
◦ 2nd (Aug 2010) ec left -3.88, soc libertarian -4.05
◦ 3rd (July 2011) ec left -7.25, soc libertarian -5.85
◦ 4th (June 2012) ec left -6.77, soc authoritarian +0.64
◦ 5th (June 2013) ec left -5.31, soc libertarian -6.31

(Draw your results here)

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