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Ian Clarke, Ernie Miller On Free Speech, Privacy

Posted by simoniker on from the itchy-and-scratchy-of-yro dept.

mpawlo writes "I am still pursuing my new pastime, interviewing interesting Internet policy individuals for Greplaw. Fresh catches include Freenet creator Ian Clarke on his decision to leave the USA, free speech and Freenet and former Lawmeme editor-in-chief Ernest Miller on DRM and privacy, copyright and the First Amendment... and, of course, why blogs matter. Maybe this will provide some food for thought."

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  1. Re:I don't understand... by eu_neke · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because you have a government like this

  2. Can you smell what the prez is cooking? by Channard · · Score: 1, Funny
    Then you can get Arnie in the White House. I hear he's going to be The People's President

    That'd be The Rock, surely? After all, with Jesse Ventura managing to get into politics, it can't be long before more wrestlers take that path, and I for one welcome our new smackdown-laying senators.

  3. right-wing whiner strategy? by rokzy · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. find a troll
    2. label them "lefty"
    3. ask them for more info
    4. assume they won't give it
    5. declare victory for the "right"
    6. ??? (probably some form of persecution)
    7. profit

  4. Re:Godwin's Law by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny
    Pretty funny. hey's law is that everybody wants to have their own law.

    Gotta have your own law dontcha? what a Nazi.

  5. Who got the A that year? by harmonica · · Score: 2, Funny

    I understand Freenet was a school project and that you got a B. Who got the A that year?

    Some Finn who had the crazy idea of writing a Unix-like kernel for the x86 platform. Never heard of that guy again...

  6. That's the last time... by Sanity · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...I make a hyperbolic statement under my real nick on /. I mean, its like living in Stalin's Russia!

    Oh shit...

  7. Re:This is not a /. Interview... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...(child-porn example given)... identify the criminals, the crime, the victim(s) and the appropriate punishment
    You, for planting that image, (in) my mind, and What I Wouldn't Give to bitch-slap you for doing so. You and the goatse-cx trolls.