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Red China and the Internet

Microsoft is participating in Chineese internet censorship. Not really surprising. A number of large American companies are complicit in helping Red China turn the internet into a state-run media.

So it's worth noting that there's nothing magical and free about TCP/IP networking (the tech that powers the net). If we let it happen, governments and corporations will ruin what we've potentially got going here.

The more I think about it, the more I want to get an organization together to take a stand on these kinds of issues: internet freedom, outsourcing, open-sourcing, etc.

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Red China and the Internet

Microsoft is participating in Chineese internet censorship. Not really surprising. A number of large American companies are complicit in helping Red China turn the internet into a state-run media.

So it's worth noting that there's nothing magical and free about TCP/IP networking (the tech that powers the net). If we let it happen, governments and corporations will ruin what we've potentially got going here.

The more I think about it, the more I want to get an organization together to take a stand on these kinds of issues: internet freedom, outsourcing, open-sourcing, etc.

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Acid Dreams

Burroughs was never into drugs simply for a good time. Despite his psilocyben bummer he agreed to go to Cambridge to participate in further experiments in consciousness alteration. Burroughs looked forward to working with sensory deprivation and submersion tanks, stroboscopes, machines to measure brain waves, and all the technologies and wonders that a prestigous university could supply. But his hopes were dashed as soon as he arrived at Harvard. All he found was a semiperminant cocktail party with a bunch of starry-eyed intellectuals talking some half-assed jive about brotherly love.

From Acid Dreams, which is a cracking good book.

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Daddy State

I'd like to see some polling done on what the public response is to the phrase Daddy State, because that's what the Post-Modern GOP is all about.

I mean, I personally agree with Duncan -- I think it's pseudo-fascism -- but that's too esoteric or strong for most folks. Daddy State has a nice ring to it though.

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