October 2011
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“They are becoming the government we’re trying to protest.”
– Shane Engelerdt, a 19-year-old from Jersey City and self-described former “head drummer” at Zuccotti Park, on the General Assembly starking to take matters into its own (jazz) hands.
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Eric Schmidt, public choice scholar
Over a week ago the Washington Post published an interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt to which I’ve been meaning to draw your attention. He’s reflecting on the relationship between Silicon Valle and D.C. days after his Senate testimony, and it’s incredibly candid, perhaps because as the Post noted, “He had just come from the dentist. And had a toothache.” Here...
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Verisign Seeks Authority to Shut Down Websites... →
In a filing with ICANN, the nonprofit that oversees the Internet’s domain name system, Verisign said this week that it wants to set up a system that would “allow the denial, cancellation or transfer” of domain name registrations to comply not just with court orders, but also “laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement or other governmental...
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Netflix cancels its "Qwikster" split →
What I never understood about this move was that they were creating a company—Qwikster—the entire purpose of which was to go out of business.
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