The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Good Midwinter Solstice! With A Kopimist Gospel Kopimism – Christian Engström: Today is the midwinter solstice, and a fitting day to present a Kopimist Gospel. Kopimism is a new religion for atheists, agnostics, and believers in other religions who want a new perspective on their current faith. Kopimism takes its starting point in the evolution …
Ideas Can’t Be Property. Can Dirt? Reflections – Zacqary Adam Green: So, we’re all in agreement that intellectual property is a bad thing that should not exist. What about plain old property? If no one has a right to monopolize the use of an idea, is there a justification to allow monopolies on the use …
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Today’s Technology Shift Has Parallels To When Universities Were Threatened By… Textbooks Infopolicy – Henrik Brändén: Today’s technology shift has many parallels with the arrivals of mass-printed books at universities. At the time, teachers at universities were horrified that the availability of books undermined their ability to charge students for reading aloud. There is something …
Rick Falkvinge’s 2013 List Of Stone Dead Industries Infopolicy: There is a number of industries today that are already obsolete, kept alive by sheer inertia or by political subsidies. Many politicians, in an attempt to “save jobs”, are foolishly taking resources from new, viable industries and giving to these obsolete ones. “Saving jobs” in this …
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Swedish Regime To Give Police, Customs, Tax Authorities Realtime Access to Citizens’ Phone, Mail, More Posted: 19 Nov 2013 10:51 AM PST Privacy: The Swedish citizens will get all their phone calls and e-mail traffic wiretapped in real time not just by the Swedish NSA branch, but also by police, customs, the tax authority, and …
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NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux Posted: 17 Nov 2013 04:59 AM PST Infopolicy – Christian Engström: The NSA has asked Linus Torvalds to inject covert backdoors into the free and open operating system GNU/Linux. This was revealed in this week’s hearing on mass surveillance in the European Parliament. Chalk another one …
“Free” Does Not Mean “Exempt From Criticism” Posted: 11 Nov 2013 12:56 PM PST Freedom of Speech – Zacqary Adam Green: “What is everyone complaining about? This is a free service, and [large corporation] can do whatever they want with it!” That’s true. Also wrong. Please stop saying it. There’s always outrage whenever a popular …
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