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Grubb for Congress. By Weblog.

An anonymous reader writes: "Wired is running a story about a (Libertarian) candidate for Congress in North Carolina whose platform explicitly supports P2P file-sharing activity. She's running against one of the big supporters of the Berman P2P hacking bill." The weblog community is all excited over her because she drank the Kool-aid.

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  1. Re:libertarianism is extremely foolish by voisine · · Score: 5, Informative

    The idea is not to do away with all legislation,
    you're thinking of anarchy. Libertarianism seeks
    to reduce legislation to the origional consitutional
    roles or protecting the population from force and
    fraud. The gub'ment does a piss poor job of most
    of the stuff it's involved in. What's needed to
    prevent exploitation and toxic dumps is to make sure
    that the true cost is stuck to the entity making the
    purchase. If you polute, you must pay to clean it up
    and pass those costs on to your customers. Then
    you'll have an incentive not to polute, or at least
    come up with a cheap efficient way to clean it up.