SOPA and PIPA: how lawmakers are out to take my job
I joined both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union today. I also give regularly to the Open Rights Group in the UK. I urge you to do the same. SOPA and PIPA – the...
View ArticleGrassroutes: how three students helped save the Internet
Like many of you, I blacked out my site for the protests against SOPA and PIPA. These are bad laws that describe themselves as being anti-piracy but will hinder business, destroy jobs, undermine the...
View ArticleHow Europe can save the Internet
I wrote a piece about ACTA for Imperica: When the French MEP Kader Arif stepped down last week from scrutinizing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, declaring that he “would not participate in...
View ArticleQuiet hero
The geniuses, the nonconformists, the hackers, writers, lovers, activists and revolutionaries. Those should be our heroes. Aaron Swartz was someone to look up to. I didn’t know Aaron, but know plenty...
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