Saturday, May 18, 2002

The 9/11 coverup. First the White House ignored warnings about al-Qaida. Then it tried to stop Congress from getting the truth. Now we know why. [Salon.com] 3:02:03 PM

The Bush 9/11 spin machine. What did they lie about, and when did they lie about it? [Salon.com] 3:01:45 PM

Verisign's Deceptive Practices Stopped [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 3:00:23 PM

"And this. Deify war heroes on the one hand, then do this on the other - School Boys punished for pretending index fingers are guns" [Daypop Top 40] 2:59:29 PM

Dr Lessig tells a story. He wrote a scholarly paper. He launched a copy of Morpheus and put his paper in the shared folder. Went home for the weekend. On Monday he comes into the office and his computer is disconnected. Stanford security had paid him a visit. "That's illegal," they said. Heh. He's the expert on what's legal. He wrote the stuff. He wanted to share it. Gotcha.  [Scripting News] 2:57:11 PM

Broadcast Copy Protection Cartel Freezes Out Public [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] Hollywood and the technology industry are hammering out severely restrictive copy protections for future broadcast television in closed meetings of the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group, a sub-group of the studio-controlled Copy Protection Working Group. The results will soon be presented to Congress as an "agreement" among the parties. Viewers -- customers -- are not parties, naturally. And the press is specifically unwelcome to watch the deliberations. 2:54:28 PM

William Grosso nails it. "I've become something very close to a single-issue voter. Diane Feinstein, my local senator, is on Disney's side. She is a co-sponsor of S. 2048 and that means I probably won't be voting for her in the next election." Amen to that. Same here. These people work for us, they need a reminder.   [Scripting News] 2:33:20 PM

Wired: "The movie studios win again."  [Scripting News] 2:33:03 PM

The DMCA Is the Toast of D.C. [Daypop Top 40] 2:30:33 PM

Storm on Capitol Hill. The president smells "the sniff of politics in the air," but as the 9/11 story hits Washington, Democrats and Republicans alike demand "a sniff of truth." [Salon.com] The thing about the Dumbya administration's position here isn't that they had a vague warning that didn't give them useful information to prevent the 9/11 atrocity, it's that the vague warning was kept secret, and is only now being discussed because it was leaked to the press. 2:26:40 PM

Peter Rutten: "We sued the tobacco companies. One day we will sue the media industry. For half a century worth of lies and violence that they've showered upon us. For what they've done to human dignity. For how they became the story, instead of just the people reporting on it."  [Scripting News] 12:49:23 PM

"Dan Rather discusses the patriotism that has run amock and its effects on journalism and government power" [Daypop Top 40] 12:35:12 PM

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