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Censorship in Canada
On July 9 2005 the Supreme Court of British Columbia issued an astonishing injunction against anyone who had bought or obtained a copy of a book. The injunctio…
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Cosmopolitanism and contamination
Kwame Anthony Appiah had a great article in the New York Times Magazine on New Year's Day that I wanted to include a bit of here. I think he did an excelle…
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Discussion on Google
Tarleton Gillespie, a fellow Fellow (I don't know why it cracks me up to say that, but it does) from CIS, has an interesting article/post on the topic of th…
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"Mud Wrestling" and the loss of our national dialogue
Broadcaster says serious news at risk By JAN SJOSTROM, Palm Beach Daily News, Thursday, January 26, 2006 '"Truth no longer matters in the context of…
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My new favorite music-related site
OK. So there are so many interesting websites offering music. This is not new. But at a dinner party I had on Tuesday, a couple of friends were talking about Pa…
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The Peace Corps as a Federally Paid Vacation
My fellow Eritrea I Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Nick VonKlock sent me the following letter, which was published in the Wall Street Journal (and on its Web si…
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Mastering the News Media to Boost Your Bottom Line
January 26, 2006 - "Mastering the News Media to Boost Your Bottom Line." Speaking on: Corporate Blogs: They're here to stay so how do we leverage…
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Congress Asks Telecommunications Carriers to Describe their Role in Domestic Spying Scandal
A particularly interesting element of the NSA Spying story is the role of the telecommunications carriers in the actual wiretapping. Why didn't they challe…
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President Must Get Serious to Meet Universal Broadband Goal
CIS Associate Director Lauren Gelman wrote an op-ed for the Wireless Internet Institute urging President Bush to support the Community Broadband Act of 2005 spo…
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Don't Do Evil? Google to Self-Censor in China
From Reuters: Google said its new Chinese service at http://www.google.cn will offer a self-censored version of its popular search system that restricts access…
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Both Parties Ignore the Facts
from slashdot: "Any democrat will tell you the republicans ignore the facts. Any republican will tell you the democrats ignore the facts. Turns out they&#…
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