The Electronic Frontier Foundation is exactly right on this one. Patents CAN be tools of crony capitalism. They should not be. We are also pleased to see the folks at R Street on board here. (From EFF.org) EFF and R...
(From EFF) On August 6, we filed a comment [pdf] opposing US Telecom’s (AT&T’s and Verizon’s trade association) petition for forbearance—the request that the FCC use its authority to repeal a key provision of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Today, thanks to...
I mean it is… Hey, at least a president said it. That’s more than Bush or Obama ever did. (From Politico) President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that the National Security Agency had violated Americans’ privacy through unauthorized collection of phone...
“We got sold out again.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos Liberty, it is a beautiful thing. It is a special thing. It is a rare thing in the history of humanity. And Washington has continued to erode it year after...
The nature of the state is always to amass more. More money. More power. It won’t restrict itself. Note that the TSA will be sharing this information with “3rd parties.” Including “private (company) partners.”
As we’ve said before, Lawrence Lessig is one of our favorite liberals. He’s right on up there with Ralph Nader in my book. We may not agree on some very important things but we do agree on many. Lessig has...
It seems that the folks in Washington DC have their own agendas. Shock. The Ex-Im Bank in the House, CISA in the Senate. See a common theme here? Got to knock all this stuff out before the Holidays you know.
I have great respect for EFF. They do great work and have done much to protect the Internet. They led the way on beating back SOPA for instance. I even once helped put together a conference which had a panel...
The Internet is the freest place on earth and it is awesome. I’ve been using it now for over 20 years (that is crazy, my dad for nearly 40 – no kidding) and I still catch myself thinking what a...
And they were pikers compared to the NSA. – Pretty crazy if you think about it.
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade deal between the United States and and much of the non-European world which over the last 2 years has been negotiated in secret. Some of the details of the agreement were leaked...
It’s good to see at least a few liberals come out and jump up and down about the surveillance state. The libertarians can’t turn this thing around alone. The mass indiscriminate collection of data is a gross violation of the...
The French have spring for protests. Looks like Americans now prefer Fall.
