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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Irony of the Year? - Senator who created PROTECT IP
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Tue May 24 13:42:33 2011
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Irony of the Year? - Senator who created PROTECT IP keynoting at CFP
"Freedom/Privacy" conference
http://bit.ly/m10qCI (This message on Google Buzz)
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If it weren't for the fact that I'm on the CFP 2011 program committee,
I would have thought that I was reading a satirical report from "The
Onion" or some such. I've just learned that (first I've heard of
this) Senator Patrick Leahy will be keynoting at the Computers,
Freedom & Privacy Conference on June 16.
The Senator has done an enormous amount of good work over his very
long Senate career. But there's no getting around the fact that his
enthusiastic pushing of PROTECT IP -- the "Preventing Real Online
Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property" Act
that he himself introduced, is a travesty.
PROTECT IP is among the most dangerous, perverse, anti-privacy,
anti-freedom legislation related to the Internet that has ever been
proposed, particularly due to its extension of liability to linking,
search engines, and other "intermediary" concepts and entities.
The Kafkaesque nature of Leahy keynoting at CFP while actually engaged
in the active promotion of PROTECT IP -- a nightmare of his own
creation -- is decidedly intense.
References (via Lauren's Blog):
Why the Internet is the Most Important Thing in the World
http://bit.ly/ixeLqr
The New Campaign to Demonize Google for Their Protection of the Constitution
http://bit.ly/jLDmLU
Knowledge as Sacrilege: The Criminalizing of Links and Search Engines
http://bit.ly/mqpFF3
"Free Speech Be Damned!": Congressional Bill Would Censor Search Engines
http://bit.ly/jCbZxY
Censorship, Governments, and Flagellating Google
http://bit.ly/l9SKEU
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Google Buzz: http://j.mp/laurenbuzz
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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