• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On February 25, 2004

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What about the right to publish?

Still catching up with my blogging from last week. As reported on BoingBoing, FCC Chairman Michael Powell last week articulated four Internet Freedoms that he believes Americans are entitled to:

Freedom to Access Content. First, consumers should have access to their choice of legal content.
Freedom to Use Applications. Second, consumers should be able to run [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On February 25, 2004

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“Compassionate” “conservativism”

So this is our compassionate conservative president. Don’t know how good his grasp of the English language is, but Bush’s proposal to amend the constitution to ban gay marriages strikes me as fairly uncompassionate and surprisingly radical.
Lots of people up in arms about this one, e.g.:

Oliver Willis (and here, and here)
Josh Marshall, who makes the [...]