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Update on SOPA
This post is a follow-up on an earlier one, which can be found here. Yesterday, Go Daddy, the world’s largest registrar of internet domain names, released a statement in support of a revised version of SOPA. I immediately started seeing … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, idiocy, internet, politics, regulation, SOPA, special interests, technology
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Great Gatsby, Copyright, and the Public Domain
Is the Great Gatsby in the public domain? The book was written in 1925 and Fitzgerald passed away in 1940. Copyright generally expires 70 years after the author’s death, so you could be forgiven for thinking the answer is “yes.” If … Continue reading
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Tagged books, copyright, culture, data, economics, education, entertainment, fun, hacker politics, history, how-to, internet politics, law, legislation, literature, micro-institutions everywhere, movies, nerd, online politics, politics, public opinion, rhetoric, SOPA, technology
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The Economist on Internet Politics
On Monday I gave a round-up of my posts on internet politics over the past year or so. Recently The Economist wrote a similar review. It is worth reading in full if this topic interests you. In this post we … Continue reading
Internet Politics Round-Up
2012 was a busy year for followers of internet politics. The SOPA controversy began in late 2011, and really picked up steam with the blackout protest on January 18. Later that month we shared news of the arrest of an … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, crime, culture, data, economics, education, elections, fun, international relations, internet politics, micro-institutions, online politics, politics, programming, public opinion, rationality, research, security, technology
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Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Hollywood Operating System
There are a whole host of movie occurrences that differ with reality, and scientists/programmers/nerds differ in their willingness to suspend disbelief. If you are on the lower end of that spectrum, or just get a laugh at how badly Hollywood misunderstands … Continue reading
Can Programming Get You Killed?
You know my position on SOPA by now, but this brings a little perspective: The Iranian Government has sentenced Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian-born web programmer living in Canada until his 2008 arrest, developed software for uploading images online, to death…. After … Continue reading
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Tagged death penalty, freedom, hacker politics, Middle East, politics, violence
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Why I Blacked Out
The Internet, as of this writing, is an anarchic system. While there are certain regulations and norms that govern behavior, they are not strong. There is no individual or subset of individual users/developers who can claim legitimate authority to coerce … Continue reading
Opposing the “Stop Online Piracy” Act
I’ve been following the issue in articles like this one at The Atlantic, which has a great video that will get you up to speed quickly. Over the weekend I corresponded with one of the members of the Duke Office … Continue reading
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Tagged academic freedom, intellectual property, internet, piracy, policy, politics, research, Stop Online Piracy Act, technology
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