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Lockdown – Marco.org edit / delete
"The bigger problem is that they’ve abandoned interoperability. RSS, semantic markup, microformats, and open APIs all enable interoperability, but the big players don’t want that — they want to lock you in, shut out competitors, and make a service so proprietary that even if you could get your data out, it would be either useless". Quite.
Eben Moglen: Snowden and the Future edit / delete
Eben Moglen is very angry.
to freedom politics security snowden ... on 15 December 2013
A selection of... randomly interesting stuff related to licensing, cypherpunkery, etc. I honestly can't remember how I got here. (*checks browser history* -- oh, it was the article on Silk Road.)
to amusements bitcoin cypherpunks licensing philosophy politics security tea ... on 24 March 2013
FreeCulture.org – Students for Free Culture edit / delete
The York chapter had lots of posters up when I was up there last time.
Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy | Global Public Media edit / delete
On the inability of people to understand the exponential function, and why this is a really bad thing. I like the log2 rule of thumb he gives: if something is growing at N% per year, it will double every 70/N years.
An odd (but thought-provoking) approach to free culture: "licenses" that attempt to codify ethical rather than legal guidelines.
to ethics free-software law licensing pd politics ... on 27 May 2007
The ID cards debate edit / delete
Wow, people being sensible in Parliament. Who'd have thought it?
to politics ... on 29 June 2005
The European Union FAQ edit / delete
Very one-sided, but some interesting stuff here.
UK general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia edit / delete
... and a remarkably informative article on the upcoming election from Wikipedia.
to politics ... on 07 April 2005
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