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Boing Boing: Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb, Net Neutrality is good: national security?
Technology Liberation Front: “Internet Freedom”: How Statists Corrupt Our Language
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Writing a speech on Net Neutrality just makes me pissed at John McCain. http://bit.ly/3LdbUH 16 days ago |
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@notpatrick on parle bien de ceci:http://bit.ly/2JYOED? Je m'aventure un peu hors de mes sentiers battu, en quoi cest contre la neutralité? 10/28/2009 |
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I love how politicians use "freedom," "patriot," and the like for policy that is anything but. Case in point: http://tinyurl.com/ylckrv8 10/28/2009 |
Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb, Net Neutrality is good: national security?
Boing Boing —
Boing Boing reader Ken Ward caught Friday's Rachel Maddow Show segment, in which I joined Ms. Maddow for a discussion around John McCain's "Internet Freedom Act."
McCain, who once described himself as technologically "illiterate" and is the single largest senate recipient of telecom lobby money, is now campaigning against the net neutrality fundamentals recently reaffirmed by FCC actions. Our reader suggests another reason McCain is dead-wrong: "At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur, I have to point out that McCain's positions is, in fact, a ...
“Internet Freedom”: How Statists Corrupt Our Language
Technology Liberation Front —
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
So declared the Party in George Orwell’s classic novel 1984. The corruption of language with a constant theme of Orwell’s work, most notably his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language.” So Orwell would not have been surprised to see the term “Internet Freedom” captured by those who advocate an increased role for government (i.e., Big Brother) online. Nor would Orwell had been surprised to see these advocates claim Orwell for themselves, insisting that opponents of government ...
"Internet Freedom": How Statists Corrupt Our Language
The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog —
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH So declared the Party in George Orwell's classic novel 1984. The corruption of language with a constant theme of Orwell's work, most notably his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language." So Orwell would not have been surprised to see the term "Internet Freedom" captured by those who advocate an increased role for government (i.e., Big Brother) online. Nor would Orwell had been surprised to see these advocates claim Orwell for themselves, insisting that opponents of government regulation are the ones corrupting language. ...
