#pow

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#act #different #different kind #greater #internet

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#determine #enforcement #human #human powers #individual

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#because #dirty #electricity #lobbyists #money

In a democracy, power is not permanent. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#permanent #power

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. ↗

— John Yoo

#detention #does #even #facilities #holding

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#fundamentally #grew #i #powerless #up

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#believing #convenient #fundamentally #gradually #grew

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#absorb #around #generally #going #heads

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#artists #away #controls #doing #go