Archive for the ‘Civil Liberties’ Category
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Dear music industry,
Thank you for inviting me to be the opening speaker at your conference In The City in Manchester, UK. I am inspired by your courage to bring what must be seen as a threat into the midst of your ranks.
I must say it was an eye-opener to experience ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Copyright, Information Politics, Keynotes | 34 Comments »
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Friends, brothers and sisters all over the besieged free world:
Today, we have won our first crucial battle for the future of civil liberties. The right to be a free citizen. The right to privacy as a concept. Indeed, the freedom to voice one's opinions at all.
These are freedoms that our ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, EU Elections | 13 Comments »
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
It’s half-past ten in the evening before election day. Ballot coverage on election day is a little over 97%. Everything is out there. Opinion polls are holding steady at over 8%.
It’s now real.
This is what we’ve worked for for three-and-a-half years. Several of us have worked far longer than that.
I ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, EU Elections | No Comments »
Friday, June 5th, 2009
I wake up with the sun at 11. The alarm clock was needless today.
I remember a time when everyone had to work simultaneously. So… unnecessary. But this was before the swarm work model. What a waste! How could people work so stifled? Without creativity and innovation? And so… limited by ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Copyright, Managing Pirates, World Economy | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
This close to the election, we're seeing a sample of what the copyright lobby wants. Today, the HADOPI Act passed in the French Parliament.
HADOPI is intended to "protect artists against file sharing." It involves:
People may have their Internet shut off without a court order for three allegations (!) by large ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Copyright, EU Elections, Managing Pirates | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
As an EU candidate, I have received a questionnaire, just like MMN-o did. Here are the answers I gave:
1. Do you think that copyright protections for artists, musicians, and performing arts should be extended so that these people get paid for the rest of their lives?
No. The purpose of copyright ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Copyright, EU Elections | No Comments »
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
As reported in geek press everywhere, the administration bought out the few resisting legislators at the last minute, and the general wiretapping law was passed with a 143-to-138 vote.
What made me proud, though, was that the normally shy and inhibited Swedes had taken their clenched fists out of their pockets. ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption | 4 Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Thank you, Ireland.
From this day and as long as I can still walk, I will buy any Irishman I come across in my travels a pint of Guinness -- or a genuine Swedish schnapps, whichever they prefer.
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
In my last post, I said that the Swedish blogosphere has exploded about this story. I felt I had to qualify that a bit, so here's a screenshot from the Swedish blogosphere tracker knuff.se, which tracks practically all Swedish blogs.
The format of the screenshot is that one header is one ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
There is a lot of debate in Sweden right now. My exposing a very senior intelligence official this Saturday, who stated - on tape - that the Ubiquitous Wiretapping Bill legalized the agency's existing mission, caused the Swedish blogosphere to detonate like a barrel of overheated thermite. Print media, though, ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption | 20 Comments »