“Once again, it appears the only way to make our nation’s intelligence oversight committees care about surveillance is to include them in the “fun.” Unfortunately, our elected officials aren’t any better than most Americans. It’s all fun and games to violate the privacy, or prevent the practice of free speech, or other Constitutional freedoms when…
Majority of Democrats, 37 percent of GOP want to repeal the First Amendment. This is absolutely frightening to me. It’s also sad that we have reached a point, as a society, where we only want to be so comfortable with our own ideas, and not challenged by other ideas, that we’d be willing to give…
Yesterday while grabbing a bite at the airport before flying home, a headline caught my eye and had me wondering just what the writer was talking about. USA Today was right to publish a terrorist sympathizer Now, I happen to agree. We should encourage all kinds of people to speak freely, so that we can…
I’ve had some time now to digest some things that have been going around the blog world and I have some thoughts: I’m glad that Elcomsoft was found not guilty but given the facts of the case I’m not too sure that this is really the death knell for the DMCA. The problem is that…
Anyway, the search for blogs to link to the Child Abuse blog continues, I added a couple today, but it doesn’t seem like blogging the details of everyday life for abuse survivors or people dealing with depression or other obstacles has caught on quite the way I would have thought. Submissions are always welcome, and…