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Internet Freedom Is Slavery?

By on July 5, 2012 9

According to a leaked report (see here and here; CHT Brandon), the Campaign for Liberty’s upcoming internet freedom manifesto condemns as an “insidious” and “pernicious” form of “internet collectivism” the view that “what is considered to be in the public domain should be greatly expanded.” Bizarrely, they toss opposition into IP into a list of proposals for government intervention.

Hey, C4L: refraining from censorship and protectionism is not a form of government intervention. For the libertarian case against IP, check out the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom and the Molinari Institute’s anti-copyright page.

Atlas Shrunk, Part 12: A Screen of Rays Calculated Against Everything

By on July 3, 2012 1

“One of the lessons we learned from Part 1 is that we need to use, in addition to the online media where we had that success, we also need to do more traditional media marketing.”
— Harmon Kaslow, producer on Atlas Shrugged Part II.

No kidding. A movie for which I never saw a single tv ad, and which had one of the most boring posters ever created, did badly at the box office? Who coulda seen that coming?

I’m a Mack, and I’m PC

By on June 30, 2012 3

I partly agree with this and partly disagree with it, being more sympathetic to PC than Jeremy is; and I don’t think putting pressure on bigots is automatically “oppressive” in the negative sense, let alone “totalitarian.” (By analogy, defensive violence is not on the same moral level as aggressive violence.) But this is still one of the more thoughtful discussions of the issue I’ve seen.

My sincere apologies for the title of this post.

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