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Yearly Archives: 2010
Legality of Internships
Here’s a statement, from The Unpaid Intern, Legal or Not in the 2 April 10 New York Times, whose truth is honored more in the breach than the observance: “If you’re a for-profit employer or you want to pursue an … Continue reading
Constitutionality of the Health Care Reform Act
Between discussions of the holiday plans, the Patriots, and the weather my morning coffee buddies have recently discussed the constitutional challenges to the Affordable Care Act. For my friends I read and summarized the court decisions in two the challenges … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Law
Tagged Affordable Care Act, Commerce Clause, health care reform
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“The Ethics of WikiLeaks”
The above-titled Institute for Global Ethics piece explores right-versus-right elements of the WikiLeaks story: This latest play has caused pundits to scramble toward one pole or the other. Some see WikiLeaks as a radiant shaft of light, cutting through official … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Internet Culture, Internet Law, privacy, Security
Tagged WikiLeaks
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Silos: Good for Grain, Bad for Information
Tim Berners-Lee–the guy who invented the World Wide Web–wrote the best explanation of why net neutrality and open source are important and closed systems like Facebook and iTunes are bad for the future of the Internet: Long-Live the Web: A Call … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Culture
Tagged Internet architecture, net neutrality, open source
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More on WikiLeaks
In my Internet law course we talk about some of the Internet cultures that formed in the 1990′s–techno-Utopians, anarchists, parliamentarian legalists, and royalists, to borrow Julian Dibble’s categories. Many students wonder why. These categories from a lost world have little … Continue reading
You Heard It Here First
By the way, I think I am on to something with my statement in the previous post that Julian Assange may have a Christ Complex (“a psychological term used loosely to describe any individual mentally fixed on superiority and/or the … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Culture, Pop Culture
Tagged christ complex, julian assange, meme, WikiLeaks
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Today’s Amazon Special: Flip-Flops
Amazon.com has taken brief, Kerry-esque, we-were-for-it-until-we-were-against-it stands on recent controversies. That’s What Pedophilia Means? A month ago Amazon.com received heat for selling The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover’s Code of Conduct, a self-published rulebook by the self-appointed Mr. … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Law, Speech
Tagged Amazon, christ complex, ddos attacks, First Amendment, pedophile, webhosting companies, WikiLeaks
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