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Wendy Seltzer Interviewed
mpawlo writes "Wendy Seltzer was recently appointed staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Seltzer is also a fellow with the Berkman Center. Greplaw has picked Seltzer's brain on her new position with the EFF, Chilling Effects and the greatest opera tunes."
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-Libertarian secular transhumanist
Up the ass! Yes Micheal, its time YOU were outsourced to Afganistan, right along with Johnkatz
Are there any pictures?
Thanks I needed that. Seltzer for breakfast - num num. Anyone know what time is it?
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Never knew Alka had a sister....
The Bigger The Headache The Bigger the Pill
Must we really keep on with this "Equal Rights" fad and hire woman into our enviroment? I mean come on, sure we need a distraction from the screen every once in a while and a bit of skirt provides this, but id rather stare at a screen saver than the dogs that get hired just to look good on the employment quota sheet. 1 black guy, check. 1 Hispanic guy, check. 1 asian guy, check. 1 gay, check. 1 person with ginger hair, check. 1 woman who we can pretend to respect and patronize, check.
I like putting golf balls in the blow holes of whales.
leave me alone!
Thou shall beg us pardon ya creep.
Try watching one episode of the old Muppet Show for a week straight. Eat, sleep, etc. and keep watching otherwise. Now see what your thought process is like following this week. Do you continue to think about petty things? Or do you walk on your hands and talk through your nose about the simple things?
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# Who is Wendy Seltzer?
I'm now a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a Fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (which Greplaw readers might know as the wacky and wonderful institution that hosts Greplaw). I spent lots of time programming and thinking about Internet technology in law school, as the Berkman Center's first general-purpose tech, and that experience deepened my concern that bad tech regulation could choke the very speech that the Internet enables.
# Some Greplaw readers may not know about the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Can you please give a brief presentation of the EFF?
EFF is a non-profit public interest organization fighting for free expression and civil liberties in the digital age. As an organization, we stay on the front lines of new technology, watching for places where the code and law collide. We try to ensure that individual freedoms survive the collision, so the rights we've enjoyed offline persist into the online world.
# What do you do as a EFF staff attorney?
I focus on intellectual property and fair use, spending lots of time explaining why copyright's overbreadth is a free speech issue. For example, I've been fighting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in an amicus brief of behalf of 321 Studios (makers of DVD X-Copy, which enables archival and personal-use copying of DVDs), protecting reverse engineering (BNETD and Lexmark v. Static Control), and working to preserve Internet users' rights against overbearing copyright claimants (amicus supporting Verizon's fight for its customers' privacy in RIAA v. Verizon). I've also been encouraging other participants, such as universities and ISPs, to take more active roles on behalf of their students and customers.
# How did your friends react when you left your hot-shot lawyer career at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel to protect civil liberties on the Internet?
The better they knew me, the less surprised they were. Kramer Levin was extraordinarily supportive of my pro bono work with the Berkman Center, but it became clear that I wanted to be fighting the public-interest battles more than just part time.
# What are the most important current challenges to the freedom of the Internet?
Even though I spend a lot of time on copyright and "intellectual property," I'd have to say that the biggest threats right now come from allowing government's cries of "terrorism" to erode our Constitutional rights to privacy, free speech, free association, and due process. Online, that translates into Carnivore boxes, secret wiretaps, and draconian cybercrime sentences. I'm encouraged that politicians in both parties now seem more willing to challenge the official line that the public must give up its rights "for our own good." These rights are what we're fighting for in the first place.
# Professor Lessig and others seem to think that the sky is falling over the Internet. Are you as pessimistic about the future?
I'm somewhat optimistic that in the long term, we'll restore balance to technology regulation, but I'm still pessimistic in the short term. And the short term might last a long time.
# Why?
It takes a long time to teach the judges, legislators, and public to understand technology. Right now, they're getting a strong dose of "education" on the Internet's threats and harms, and not hearing so much about its potential. Shouts of "piracy" often outweigh consideration of how we might communicate with more open media formats, but judges like Stephen Wilson in the Grokster case are starting to listen through the shouting. We're encouraging more people to think about how the law shapes technological innovation, how the technology itself can foster creativity, and then to do something about it to advance the public interest.
# How could Greplaw readers help the EFF, except for obviously donating to the EFF?
Become activists, starting locally. We've seen the MPAA introduc
A lawyer with coding experience. Very nice selection for the EFF. She certainly seems to a very good perspective, based on the interview.
I would think her background would give her a decided advantage in court against opposition such as SCO's legal team. Non-technical lawyers I'd expect would be rather limited in their ability to see the proverbial trees as well as the forest, leading to egregious, easily-destroyable assertions such as SCO's claim that, in effect, "Linux" is one particular whole, when a moment's consideration from one with a technical background would suggest it's actually a very dynamic, variable thing, and that to claim all Linux deployments violate a given set of supposed "infringments" is rather absurd.
I'd expect Ms. Seltzer will be able to bring good arguments to the table on this and many other Open Source challenges. Kudos to the EFF's fine choice.
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
How about focusing on "equal oppertunities" instead, and hire the best person for the job, with no regard to gender, skincolour, cultural background or religion? I'm sure that will work out better, while at the same time makeing sure the rest of us don't have to hear people whine about how the new co-worker was hired just because she sits down when she pees (instead of standing up, like most guys do).
Just my 2 cents.
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
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I'm sure that will work out better, while at the same time makeing sure the rest of us don't have to hear people whine about how the new co-worker was hired just because she sits down when she pees (instead of standing up, like most guys do).
i've known a few ladys who stand up while peeing. where do they fit into this?
Seltzer used to be quite active on a couple of mailing lists dedicated to preparing legal briefs in a Universal v. Remierdes Eldred v Ashcroft and similar legal cases.The lists were (and still are) idealistic and noisy, but the legal discussion (archived by Lexis-Nexis at one point) was a lot of fun.
I just checked out some pics of "Wendy", and I'm wondering... male or female? Maybe formerly male and now female...?
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If one cannot bother to paraphrase, then perhaps one might consider deferring one's submission, as a courtesy to the original author. After all, some folks work hard to craft the words that we enjoy reading. Why not provide them the common courtesy of respecting their hard work?
Cheers.
Yeah, right.
First they came for the menial jobs. I never spoke out because I didn't have a menial job.
Then they came for the unskilled laborer jobs. I never spoke out because I wasn't an unskilled laborer.
Then they came for the skilled labor jobs. I never spoke out because I wasn't a skilled laborer.
Then they came for the call center jobs. I never spoke out because I didn't work in a call center.
Then they came for the middle management / clerical jobs. I never spoke out because that wasn't my job either.
Then they came for the programmer's jobs. And there was no-one left in employment who wanted to help me.
FACT: This country is being hollowed out from the inside by filthy subhuman animals. An invasion of scum, often illegally entering the country, who are crawling their way into good jobs. Why? Because they are wanting to take everything over. We all know to what effect that 'positive discrimination' has altered employment practises. Now, instead of the most valuable person for the job, companies are obliged to employ rancid, workshy immigrants.
Of course, the animals want to get into good companies, so they in turn can influence management decisions to outsource further jobs to their cousins overseas. Thus destroying an entire nation.
From the lowliest Janitor to the highest executive, foreigners MUST be eliminated from our corporations.
THEY BREED FASTER THAN OURSELVES BECAUSE THEIR LIVES ARE WORTH LESS.
You can't solve the social problem of sexism/racism with this, although it *sounds* ideal. People are born into categories that are inequal, and equal opportunities aren't enough to give them what they deserve - a fair chance.
I know that as a white male I'll gladly give up my spot at the state univ. if it will mean the university becomes less segregated. Then and only then, after the situation of unequal footing due to race/sex has been improved through getting to know people of other backgrounds more personally, we can say an equal opportunity is enough.
would ever work for today's SCO.
Judging by the quality of OpenServer, I'd say no one with coding experience has worked on it for a decade.
I'd post a torrent file for my SCO discs, but they aren't worth the bandwidth.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
"rest of us don't have to hear people whine about how the new co-worker was hired just because she sits down when she pees"
Here in lies the problem, SHOULD she be hired because she takes a pi$$ sitting down?!?!?! Just give me her wage (as I`ll end up doing her job anyway to make up for her) and I`ll squat to take a pi$$ also.
She has nice, pipe-fitter lips. No disrespect, but trust me, my boy. There's two things I'm good at. That's pulling dents, and spottin' good blow jobs. And that sweetie has world-class blow job lips. Am I right, skipper?
What do you expect from Michael Sims? He is the one who stole someone else's work and made it his own.
I get most if this information via text anyway... It doesn't matter to me if the staff attorney has their reproductive organs externaly or otherwise, nor if they can see their feet if standing upright.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
from the need-a-brane-for-my-master dept.
Heh, ya michael, I do think you need one.
Wendy was really sharp on the dvd-discuss mailing list. Good for her.
Big Brother Bush is doubleplus ungood.
Wendy was good at getting us to refocus without being overbearing.
Big Brother Bush is doubleplus ungood.
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What sort of savage is she?
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Bullshit. After you have managed to equalize race and sex, I suppose that next you will tackle intelligence, beauty, weight, height, and all of the other irrelevant categories that people use to discriminate. Affimative action is nothing more than a political tool used by some to garner favor from minority groups and those who sympathize with them.
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A little dance
A little seltzer
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How about focusing on "equal oppertunities" instead
Damn... are those the dulcet strains of 'Dualling Banjos' that I hear being played as a soundtrack to this post?
Clearly there's no chance of *you* ever being hired over Wendy Seltzer -- unless they introduce affirmative action for hillbillies, anyway.
If she really believes that crap about things looking up in the long term, she's going to die an angry, bitter old woman waiting for that long term to come. The EFF is King Canute railing against the tide.
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Simple: tell everywhere you are ready to switch to open source, and you will get better prices from MS. There are so many (sometimes) good free (open) OS, its hard to believe this kind of declaration. Don't trust them, it all about propaganda...
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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.