in commondreams.org from yesterday’s LA Times: Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft’s Hellish Vision by Jonathan Turley. “The proposed camp plan should trigger immediate congressional hearings and reconsideration of Ashcroft’s fitness for this important office. Whereas Al Qaeda is a threat to the lives of our citizens, Ashcroft has become a clear and present threat to our liberties.” It’s alternatively sad, confusing, and outrageous that Ashcroft isn’t a totally marginal character well outside the mainstream of American political life.
If you ever have to settle
an argument about a band or something, you could do a LOT worse than starting at the newly-relaunched TrouserPress.com. There’s so much here you can’t even keep it straight will looking around.
Cory Doctorow
has written an excellent overview of the issues surrounding the introduction of digital TV which has been published in TidBITS this week. Quote: “Hollywood suckered the tech companies in with this promise and then sprang the trap. No, you won’t get a set of objective criteria out of us. From now on, every technology company with a new product will have to come to us on its knees and beg for our approval. We can’t tell you what technology we’re looking for, but we’ll know it when we see it. That’s the ‘standard’ we’re writing here: we’ll know it when we see it.”
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Lawrence Lessig
has been doing his talk on copyright for about two years now, really leading the intellectual and the legal battle on this important issue of the digital world. It seems that he’s going to shift gears a little bit, but before he does, check out his copyright talk, “free_culture” as given at OSCON 2002 in July.
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