Like many of Mozilla’s supporters – and like many of the Mozillans I know and respect – I am devastated by this turn of events. The free and open web needs an entity like Mozilla to stand on principle, especially when the commercial internet world so manifestly stands on nothing but profits.
Cory Doctorow: Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart
If you have nothing to hide, you must be living a boring life.
It's one thing to study abroad and have the chance to exchange ideas of any kind with the people you meet and if you actually take advantage of that chance or not. But it's another when you bring a built-in censorship-system with you to a country that has a "mostly" (but for how long?) free internet. In that way even when you go to another country and have the chance to experience other culture's views on the world, everywhere you connect to the internet you will still be slave to the censorship that is put upon you.
Why is a date with a (female*) person I‘ve been close with (in a nonsexual way) for years less valuable than a date with a (male*) person I don‘t really know but might might might get sexual with?! People keep telling me that, friends keep telling me that, without even noticing. And since they don‘t say it, bur rather act according to it, I can‘t speak up against it. Plus, it takes me time to get through to the message of their actions. I‘m not angry with them; there is no one I can blame, just patriarchy itself and he won‘t listen.
* Since the 1970s, technologically illiterate politicians and economists have bandied about the idea of an “information economy,” based on buying and selling information piecemeal
* Their bizarre utopia is a world where you can buy and sell information in ever-thinner slices
* Selling the right to watch movies at home but not on vacation
* Selling the right to stream, but not save, a song
* Selling the right to use a program on the phone in your pocket today, but not the right to run it on your next phone
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* Ultimately, selling the right to sell a novel to read on Wednesdays, but only between the hours of 5 and 7, while standing on one leg* Once I was in a meeting at the DVB, where they make the standards for European digital TV, and there was this insane discussion about whether a TV program could be flagged so that you could only watch it in the room where the receiver was
* That is, you couldn’t run a wire or use a wireless transmitter to watch it in another room
* I asked, “Come on, what is this for? It’s not like there’s any law that lets a broadcaster dictate what room you’re allowed to watch a show in”
* And there was a rep from the MPA, the Hollywood movie industry association, there and he said, “Look, watching a movie in one room that’s being received in a different room has value, and if it has value, we should be able to charge money for it”
* Siva Vaidyanthan calls this the “if value, then right” theory — if something has value, someone should have a right to earn money from it
* But I call it it urinary tract infection business model
