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Declan McCullagh On Geek Activism

Posted by chrisd on from the declan-v-lessig dept.

die_jack_die writes "Declan McCullagh, formerly of Wired News, lately at News.com, has written an insightful piece about the realities of geek activism. Short version: spend your time coding, not lobbying. (You might also want to check out Politech , his mailing list for this sort of stuff.)" This in contrast to Lessigs call for more lobbying.

3 of 303 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The sad facts by Bethor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and doesn't reinstall his operating system or upgrade his machine (if he even owns one) frequently

    those sad bastards!

  2. Re:The sad facts by shd99004 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not much to add, that was a great comment.

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  3. ONTOPIC Al Gore vs the Internet by Zeinfeld · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Declan was singlehandedly responsible for starting that smear. The accusation was made in a Declan piece in Wired online.

    Declan didn't bother to contact the Gore capaign to find out that Gore had actually promioted the funding bills and the rest of the media never bothered to check Declan's report against the actual interview.

    The thing is in Declan's crackpot universe government is only evil and stupid. Nothing the government does can possibly have good effects so therefore Gore could not have had the slightest positive impact on the Internet.

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