Archive for the 'First Amendment' Category
Chris Castle has a long rant about Comcast’s blocking the Bit Torrent protocol, or to be more precise he has a long rant about the many who are criticizing Comcast; it seems he is a little upset that many have objections to Comcast’s actions, and that a consensus exists that committing fraud in the name [...]
Here we have Comcast’s own statement regarding Bit Torrent:
And here we have observation by Ernesto over at Torrentfreak:
Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible
Written by Ernesto on August 17, 2007
Over the past weeks more and more Comcast users started to notice that their BitTorrent transfers were cut off. Most users report a significant decrease in [...]
The headline says it all, I think. Comcast did what they did in secret, denied it when confronted, and furthermore tried to cover it up when it was exposed. Why did they do it in secret, and deny it when they were confronted? Because they knew it was wrong. It really is that [...]
Once again, someone at TLF has defined a market success so narrowly, that by his very definition, it is impossible ever to discuss an example of a market failure. Here we have Jim Harper, discussing the recent supression by Comcast of Bit torrent traffic:
But I expect that we’ll soon learn more about the situation, [...]
A post over at IP Central is illustrative of two important fallacies in thinking about copyrights.
Solveig Singleton is here discussing Fair Use, and the prospect of narrowing Fair Use (odd at a time when most thought seems to be centered on expanding Fair Use rights, but that’s a tangent). In this post, she only [...]
Jim Harper, in an attempt to plug all the holes in his argument that AT&T’s censorship of seven or eight bands is unimportant makes the interesting discovery that it is impossible to ever discuss censored speech. You see, if we are talking about it, it obviously hasn’t been censored(!?) How can I argue [...]
Jim Harper over at TLF displays once again the anti-freedom thread of so-called ‘libertarian’ thought. He seems to be saying that censorship is OK if it comes from a large corporation, but of course, if it comes from the government it is bad, bad, bad!
Somehow I Don’t Think Pearl Jam/AT&T is the Shot [...]
Thought for the day: “A threat to freedom anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – MLK
Amazingly, as the examples of case after case after case of ISP’s instituting content-based suppression of expression (or plainly said: Censorship) pile up, certain bloggers (mainly ‘libertarian’) continue to deny that this is talking place at all. [...]
First, there were several stories of toothpaste containing diethylene glycol (DEG) in China.
OK, well, we have the FDA here right? They investigate stuff like this, so we are safe right?
As reported by the BBC, the Church of England is considering legal action against Sony:
Cathedral row over video war game
9 June 2007
The Church of England is considering legal action against entertainment firm Sony for featuring Manchester Cathedral in a violent PlayStation video game. The Church says Sony did not obtain permission to use [...]
-
Recent Comments
