Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'freedom_of_speech'
Obama Administration Warns About Using Information Devices Which Have Produced the Most Widely Distributed Publishing Platform in Human History
I really want this thing to work out with President Obama. He’s smart. He’s a constitutaional scholar. His adminstration has taken steps to advance the welfare of US citizens and the welfare of people worldwide. So I don’t get...
A Number for Your Blackbook
This number 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0is the HD-DVD Processing Key used by AACS (Advanced Access Content System) to decrypt content for HD-DVD playback. A technique which utilizes this number has been implemented in a software program called BackupHDDVD.My posting this number on this...
Cautious optimism
This is huge. Huger than huge. This augurs the possibility that license holders may once again implicitly (and by default) allow fair use of copyrighted material.Congress, are you listening?...
Tommy Sweatshop
At my undergraduate alma mater, USC, the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation (SCALE) staged a knit-in on the steps of the Pertusati University Bookstore. Lori White, associate vice president for Student Affairs, asked the students to relocate to Hahn plaza...
October Surprise: Clobber the Blogger
At a campaign stop in Charlottesville, Virginia, staffers for Senator George Allen (R-VA) beat up Mike Stark, United States Marine, University of Virginia Law student, and blogger for Daily Kos.The issue which gets neglected due to the unseemly and easy-to-sensationalize...
Net Neutrality: Part 2
There’s a lot of activity regarding Net Neutrality just about now. Today, I received the following email from eBay CEO, Meg Whitman (or at least her automated counterpart): Dear mistersquid, As you know, I almost never reach out to...
Net Neutrality and You
Internet service providers (ISPs) such as AT&T, Comcast, Time-Warner, and Verizon have been conducting an intense lobbying effort to end Internet neutrality. Without outlining the history of these industry incumbents and their relationships to the Internet as providers, I...
Toni Morrison, Child Pornographer?
American Man Given 20 Years for Cartoons [Dwight Whorley] who used a public computer at state offices to receive child pornography depicted in highly stylized cartoons will spend 20 years in prison. I'm not into kiddie porn, but I...
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