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Despite what I said in the title of my recent post, it appears SOPA’s being put on hold by the Republicans was a temporary measure and it will return far sooner than any of us could have hoped. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith issued a press release stating that markup will resume in February. [...]
Archive for January 17th, 2012
More ^Than Men: The Problem With Privilege
January 17th, 2012 
Jason Thibeault I’ve submitted a post to the More ^Than Men project, run by Sasha Pixlee for the Women Thinking Free Foundation. A teaser: I am engaged actively in a number of struggles with which even some of my more adversarial readers at my blog, Lousy Canuck, must sympathize. I cater specifically to a few niche audiences [...]
Posted in Gender, Privilege 
Tags: atheism, feminism, gender, privilege, problem with privilege, skepticism 
No Comments »SOPA is dead, long live PIPA (or: Computer Armageddon, here we come!)
January 17th, 2012 Jason Thibeault The SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is an empirically bad thing. Cory Doctorow has an hour-long talk explaining the road to this onerous set of laws, this spider-swallowing to catch a fly to borrow Doctorow’s analogy, but the route to this terrible toll bridge on the information superhighway is less interesting than the toll itself. [...]
Posted in Asshats, Computers, Politics Tags: apocalyptic propecies, censorship, internet, PIPA, SOPA 27 Comments »
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