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Freedom of Speech has a new home

adam — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:02:25 +0000

Torrent Freak: The Pirate Bay launches an Uncensored Blogging Service. This is great news. after the many altercations whereby wordpress.com has broken and muted both the voices of those it finds distasteful, and those who disagree with their policies, it's great to see someone stepping up. Well, I'd be remiss not mention tumblr's clearly written and transparent content policy, but choice is always better. The Pirate Bay has a history of fighting hard for even the edge cases of freedom of speech, so the service will be interesting to watch. via Violet Blue.

All your wi-fi are belong to Big Brother

adam — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:42:38 +0000

I might have to change my mind about Ron Paul. This bill might make sense1 if there were anything resembling a clear notion of what is illegally obscene.

besides C|Net's objection to the terminology surrounding who is providing such access

Banned Books Week

adam — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:00:59 +0000

Banned Books Week is over now, but friday we did head up to evanston for a reading of books that were almost banned in Arlington Heights this year:

“The Awakening” by Kate Chopin,
“Beloved” by Toni Morrison,
“The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World” by Michael Pollan,
“Fallen Angels” by Walter Dean Myers,
“Freakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner,
“How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez,
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky,
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut,
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien.

along with the most-often-challenged book of last year, "It's Perfectly Normal"

You've just got to wonder about people who think banning slaughterhouse five is a reasonable reaction. Freakonomics sounded fascinating, despite the fact that economics bore me, so i may have to investigate that one further.