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. IP is used to create artificial monopolies, like MLB saying people can’t disseminate the facts (which are currently not part of IP) of a baseball without authorization.

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Cuba Versus China (the politics of being useful)

March 19, 2008 – 9:18 pm

NY Times (A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears) The question Americans should be asking is: Why is it that Cuba is so bad but China is okay? Why is it that China kills, tortures, and suppresses its people and gets to host the Olympics, while Cuba keeps getting punched in the throat?

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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. David Edgar puts it pretty well: By declaring images, titles and now words to be ownable brands, these various organisations and individuals are contributing to an increased commodification and thus privatisation of materials previously agreed to be in the public domain.

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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.

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