Suzanne Choney
High-speed Internet now a right … in Finland – Technology & science – Tech and gadgets – msnbc.com. Does anyone have a link to the actual legal text?
July 1, 2010
High-speed Internet now a right … in Finland – Technology & science – Tech and gadgets – msnbc.com
May 31, 2010
Cory Doctorow Interviewed!
Talking copyright, For the Win and iPads with ABC News – Boing Boing. The incomparable Cory Doctorow talks iPads, copyright law and walks the walk with his new book For the Win. The interview is quick and interesting.
April 26, 2010
Dems Plan To Toughen Wall Street Reform Bill On Senate Floor
Dems Plan To Toughen Wall Street Reform Bill On Senate Floor. Progressive dems make their move on finance regulation! Watch for Sens. Cantwell’s and Sanders’ respective amendments to restore Glass-Steagall and for auditing the Federal Reserve.
March 26, 2010
March 15, 2010
Tell the copyright czar how US enforcement should work: 9 days left! – Boing Boing
Tell the copyright czar how US enforcement should work: 9 days left! – Boing Boing. Make your voice heard. Some say the best enforcement is less enforcement when it comes to the DMCA copyright law.
March 13, 2010
Americans: Test your broadband speed, help the FCC keep ISPs honest – Boing Boing
Americans: Test your broadband speed, help the FCC keep ISPs honest – Boing Boing. Try it out! Easy and pie and fun too.
March 8, 2010
Senate Democrats Unwilling To Fight Widely-Opposed GOP Nominee To Legal Services Corporation
Senate Democrats Unwilling To Fight Widely-Opposed GOP Nominee To Legal Services Corporation. Lawyers for conservative evangelical groups have never been bolder, and their ideological brethren dominate the U.S. Supreme Court. Where are the lawyers and social workers who fight the War on Poverty? Why won’t Congress free the Legal Services Corporation from the onerous regulations that stop them from helping economically disadantaged communities?
March 2, 2010
Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet | Threat Level | Wired.com
Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet | Threat Level | Wired.com. <from the article> There is no cyberwar and we are not losing it. The only war going on is one for the soul of the internet. But if journalists, bloggers and the security industry continue to let self-interested exaggerators dominate our nation’s discourse about online security, we will lose that war — and the open internet will be its biggest casualty.
February 28, 2010
UK Digital Economy Bill will wipe out indie WiFi hotspots in libraries, unis, cafes Boing Boing
UK Digital Economy Bill will wipe out indie WiFi hotspots in libraries, unis, cafes Boing Boing. Author Cory Doctorow monitors this sort of mirror universe trend for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and on boingboing and his own site, craphound. Witness “free market” advocates who press for government regulation burdening public access to the internet over Wi-Fi connections offered by small businesses, libraries and others. Why not laissez-faire … laissez-passer?
February 27, 2010
Coffee Party | Wake Up and Stand Up
The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans. As voters and grassroots volunteers, we will support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.
January 31, 2009
Law of the Commons CLE – March 13, Seattle University School of Law
Steven Reisler of Penguin in my Briefs fame, advises that the Seattle Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild is offering a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar on March 13, 2009 on The Law of the Commons. It looks like property law will be examined and discussed with reference to concepts in intellectual property and free and open source software. At least I hope that’s what its about. Looks fun. 8:30 am through 8:00 pm.
Link.
November 8, 2008
Gov. Palin Pick Isolated Evangelical Republican Base From Moderates
As anticipated, Sen. McCain’s choice of Gov. Palin created problems for the Republican campaign. The Republican VP candidate was not ready for the job and blundered repeatedly during the campaign. Her candidacy was a divisive factor, not only for the national electorate, but for the Republican party itself. Moderate Republicans defected from the party while the evangelical base drifted further into irresponsible hate speech and deluded statements about the economic downturn and foreign policy issues.
And now that the election is over, the Republican base has declared open war on the rest of the party:
For example, Oliver Burkeman reported for The Guardian:
. . . Rush Limbaugh, behemoth of rightwing radio, took to the airwaves to declare war on two enemies: Barack Obama and the Republican party. Bloggers at FreeRepublic.com, an internet hub for conservatives, announced a boycott of Fox News and John McCain’s aides fell over one another to leak embarrassing details about the campaign to the press.
Liberals, indulging in what the writer Andrew Sullivan termed “Palinfreude”, were presented with a smorgasbord, ranging from the tale of how McCain’s pro-Palin foreign policy adviser had his Blackberry confiscated in the closing days of the race, to how the party had paid for Todd Palin’s silk boxer shorts.
The fighting consuming the McCain and Palin camps threatened to derail broader efforts to overhaul the Republican party after Tuesday’s decisive defeat, for which some insiders blamed Sarah Palin. Veterans of the right gathered in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, on Thursday for a summit on the movement’s future, but even as they did so, the blame went on.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it is worse than I thought,” Limbaugh told listeners. “What the Republican party, led by disgruntled and failed McCain staffers, is trying to do to Sarah Palin, is unconscionable … There are country-club, blue-blood … Republicans who want nothing to do with a firebrand conservative [who] can fire up people.” He added: “We’re going to be taking on two things here [over] the next four years: Obama, and our own party establishment.”