New Orleans In a piece about the feinting being done by billionaire NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Matt Bai in the New York Times correctly pointed out that not only money but “ballot access” was a huge impediment to alternative political parties and candidacies. A throwaway comment though got me thinking when he mentioned that qualifying …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Mirror Sites, Domain Hosts, and Wikileaks Cyber War
New Orleans I’ve got to admit that the more there is a bully boy, gang up on Wikileaks by governments, businesses and cowards, the more I’m sympathetic to their situation and the need for all of us to step up some way or another. My hero of the day is Toronto-based EasyDNS, a domain registration …
Julian Assange and Big Bill Haywood
Miami There are some pieces of this story that none of us really want to believe are happening, there are other parts that are way across the line are need huge pushback, as I have argued. Talking to Canadian associates last night about the case, there was consensus that this was a “family-oriented” blog, so …