Tag: Politics
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Strong vs Weak
John McCoy had something to say about trademarks over on his blog, Pathetic Fallacy. I’ll pull just a little bit out here because it really sums up the problems with many laws protecting IP in the USA right now. The problems with this line of thought are: 1) it treats people like idiots and 2)…
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I’m Against SOPA/PIPA
If you haven’t been paying attention to SOPA or PIPA then I recommend you do some reading up on the issues themselves. I recommend the following links: SOPA at Wikipedia PIPA at Wikipedia More about SOPA and PIPA at Google SOPA Resistance Day at Ars Technica There is a ton more out there, so make…
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Stifling Online Speech
I’m usually not a huge fan of the New York Times, but head on over and read about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments at the Hague about stifling online voices. When the administration she is currently working for is seizing domains and receiving rebukes from the EUÂ about the practice you would think she would…