Tag Archives: free speech

A Message to a Friend Explaining My View on Intellectual Property

June 11, 2008 – 10:03 pm

I think that IP is one of the largest issues going and to make it worse, people don’t know anything about it. That’s what makes it so dangerous. Corporations are slowly but surely gathering more and more power over IP, many people think that this is good for businesses because they can protect their interests, [...]

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Cuba Versus China (the politics of being useful)

March 19, 2008 – 9:18 pm

Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells trips to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba. In October, about 80 of his Web sites stopped working, thanks to the
The sites, in English, French and Spanish, had been online since 1998. Some, like www.cuba-hemingway.com, were [...]

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2012 Olympic Games

October 12, 2007 – 1:05 pm

This message was not brought to you by the real Olympic Games, but is instead a demonstration of the free speech which the folks who run Olympic Games are trying to kill. Why should you care? David Edgar puts it pretty well:
By declaring images, titles and now words to be ownable brands, these various [...]

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Yahoo Just Doesn’t Care about Human Rights

June 11, 2007 – 10:18 pm

It has been said before on this little blog that Yahoo is a bad company for helping the Chinese government jail people for speaking out, but Yahoo just won’t admit to anyone that they did something bad. Free speech is obviously important and any company which helps a government suppress it should be regarded as [...]

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