One year ago this week, on March 11, 2011, Japan experienced its most devastating earthquake in over a thousand years. The quake brought a…
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How Microsoft Pays Big Money To Smear Google In European Parliament
I spent this week in the European Parliament in Brussels. One of the seminars I attended was advertised as being a seminar on privacy,…
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The Real Voter Fraud
If you ask people about voter fraud, most will admit it’s a serious issue, and it IS. People casting votes they’re not entitled to…
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We, The Web Kids
There is probably no other word that would be as overused in the media discourse as ‘generation’. I once tried to count the ‘generations’…
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Copyright Monopolies As Air Trade
Marten Toonder is one of the most celebrated writers of the Netherlands, and also near-impossible to translate. 2012 is the ‘Toonderyear’, according to his…
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Cultural Flatrate Won't Work. Here's Why It Won't Work.
The old idea of a cultural flatrate or an internet levy has popped up again. This idea basically says “tax the net heavily –…
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Selling Your Vision With A Swarm
People’s friends are better marketers than you, for the simple reason that they are those people’s friends, and you are not. But first, before…
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Innocent Until Proven Guilty, So Why Not Legal Until Proven Illegal?
Before a court can restrict a citizen’s freedom with a prison sentence, it must prove guilt. Why don’t legislatures require the same burden of…
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Sex, Tech, and Harm to Children
Information technology, among all that it does, brings together two things which are wonderful when apart, and frightening when combined: children, and sex. For…
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ACTA Dominoes Are Falling: Germany Says It Won't Sign For Now
The news just broke: Germany says it will not be signing ACTA for the time being. The news (Spiegel, Netzpolitik) seems to cast the…
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