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"But please, please also join us in attacking the far more pernicious problem of lobbyist money subtly corrupting our government."
While I'm not a fan of "corruption", I don't see how this can be done without limiting the money that any individual can contribute to the political process. So much political speech has been limited in the name of "fighting corruption", just as internet speech could potentially be limited in the name of "fighting piracy".
I hate SOPA/PIPA too, but many of those protesting it have no issues with the limit of political speech. Concerning internet censorship, many people have (rightly) appealed to higher ideals of free speech. Maybe because it would affect their internet experience. They don't do so when it could influence a political outcome in a way they do not like.
Defeating SOPA and PIPA Isn't Enough
SOPA and PIPA are two pieces of proposed legislation designed to "stop" Internet piracy… in the most hamfisted way imaginable. As Mitchell Baker explains: Assume there's a corner store in your neighborhood that rents movies. But the movie industry believes that some or even all of the videos ...
I was about to blog about Chrome's terrible address bar search, where if I type in a word, it only looks at url terms in my history, and not the web page title (unlike Firefox, Safari, or most other browsers). I was about to take a screenshot demonstrating my point, only to find out it had been fixed.
The Infinite Version
One of the things I like most about Google's Chrome web browser is how often it is updated. But now that Chrome has rocketed through eleven versions in two and a half years, the thrill of seeing that version number increment has largely worn off. It seems they've picked off all the low hanging ...
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