Tag: liberty
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social myth
Philosophical mythology vs political sociology is the conflict between progress and regress, sophrosyne vs hubris, and thus the world of freedom and liberty vs the world of authority and control. “Do or do not, there is no try” is incompatible with corpo-capitalism because teaching mythological belief in the Force that you can find harmony with,…
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Speech, Anonymity, and Networks
Ross Mayfield, who I read on the corporate-as-in-many blog, Many 2 Many has some things to say about anonymity and the press to regulate it, either in a market commodity sense or a civil ordinance sense, or both, stemming from someone being irked over entries made in Wikipedia about them, which they contend are libelous.…
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Torture
Torture is a big topic these days in the American political conversation. Senator John McCain has brought forward a proposal to unambiguously disavow all methods of interrogation deemed to be “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment” by any agent of the United States, anywhere in the world. The White House has responded by shouting,…
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Wouldn’t it be nice if…
the government let people know what data it is holding about them? “The government, whether a State or Tribe or the Federal government, shall disclose the existence of all data bases and information stores and the contained fields, relationships, schema, and data dictionaries whenever that database or information store contains records of Citizens of the…