Archive for the ‘freedom’ Category
July 3rd, 2008 anigif, freeculture, freedom, freespeech, google, lawsuit, liberty, privacy, snitching, stopsnitching, viacom, youtube | No Comments »
Mad people have been fwd’ing articles about the subpoena of YouTube users’ viewing records today.
“Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled […]
Tags: anigif, freeculture, freedom, freespeech, google, lawsuit, liberty, privacy, snitching, stopsnitching, viacom, youtube
February 26th, 2008 berkman, comcast, fcc, freeculture, freedom, internet, isp, law, netneutrality, network, policy, verizon | No Comments »
I left lab early yesterday and rushed over to Harvard Law School to attend the FCC hearing. Unfortunately, I arrived to find a hallway full of angry people and a police officer blocking the stairway. Apparently, Comcast offered its local employees a full day’s pay to take up seats in the courtroom. Totally sweet deal […]
Tags: berkman, comcast, fcc, freeculture, freedom, internet, isp, law, netneutrality, network, policy, verizon
December 16th, 2007 america, corruption, culture, freedom, government, independence, lessig, reform, scholarship, todomundo | No Comments »
In this excellent lecture, Lessig suggests that the practices of a small group of people with regard to corruption can, over time, challenge and critically change cultural norms. I especially appreciate his thinking about the notion of “independence”. Lessig is focused primarily on government officials yet it reminded me of my revulsion at many […]
People like Daft Punk, Armand Van Helden […] have been real creative. You can’t say these people have been … less creative than we were.
People say, “Oh, Pierre. You started Acid. How do you feel about these people doing this and that with it. Taking your sound…”
I’m like, “Whose […]