links on actual issues
Aug. 6th, 2002 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianYou people can start posting more any time now. Distract me! I should stop elaborating on my fantasy of being home with a heating pad, new Cardcaptor Sakura, a Playstation 2, Tim Tams, mint tea, and non-whiny cats. And some blankets. And...
So get with it.
Here, I encourage you:
You know, I'm glad ridiculous things like GI Joe having his gun confiscated are happening, but I really don't think people are going to be able to draw lines in the right place even with this kind of encouragement. Lately I am trying not to think about how fucked up things are getting here in the lovely US, which is not a good reaction.
This is not the most coherent essay I've ever read, but it says some good things about the domain name system. One thing that I haven't seen after these acknowledgements of the problem, though, is a good solution.
The trouble is, they're not incorrect. They're just wrong. [pdf]
Yes, every argument that is being made in favor of extending US copyrights ad infinitum is reasonable, factual, and well-supported, and the arguments against are simply not as good. The machinery of the law has insufficient provision for identifying trends and doing what's right. (They don't even make cartoons with Mickey Mouse any more, dammit.)
I am loving Don't Link to Us!. All those sites with stupid linking policies, all in one place for your simplified scoffing pleasure.
(In related news, Blogtree is yet another stab at determining just how this linking thing works.)
TOKYO, Aug. 5 — Japan put into operation a national computerized registry of its citizens today, provoking two un-Japanese responses: civil disobedience and a widespread feeling that privacy should take priority over efficiency. [NYT article, stupid login warning]
Go, civilly disobedient Japanese! (Note that the disobedient include the entire cityof Yokohama, which made registration voluntary, and several other cities that refused to be included. It may not make much difference in the long run, but it's really heartening anyway.)
So get with it.
Here, I encourage you:
You know, I'm glad ridiculous things like GI Joe having his gun confiscated are happening, but I really don't think people are going to be able to draw lines in the right place even with this kind of encouragement. Lately I am trying not to think about how fucked up things are getting here in the lovely US, which is not a good reaction.
This is not the most coherent essay I've ever read, but it says some good things about the domain name system. One thing that I haven't seen after these acknowledgements of the problem, though, is a good solution.
The trouble is, they're not incorrect. They're just wrong. [pdf]
Yes, every argument that is being made in favor of extending US copyrights ad infinitum is reasonable, factual, and well-supported, and the arguments against are simply not as good. The machinery of the law has insufficient provision for identifying trends and doing what's right. (They don't even make cartoons with Mickey Mouse any more, dammit.)
I am loving Don't Link to Us!. All those sites with stupid linking policies, all in one place for your simplified scoffing pleasure.
(In related news, Blogtree is yet another stab at determining just how this linking thing works.)
TOKYO, Aug. 5 — Japan put into operation a national computerized registry of its citizens today, provoking two un-Japanese responses: civil disobedience and a widespread feeling that privacy should take priority over efficiency. [NYT article, stupid login warning]
Go, civilly disobedient Japanese! (Note that the disobedient include the entire cityof Yokohama, which made registration voluntary, and several other cities that refused to be included. It may not make much difference in the long run, but it's really heartening anyway.)
