Category Archives: Politics

TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

Clay Shirky deliv­ers a clear and cogent his­tory and expla­na­tion of PIPA/SOPA, walk­ing through through both the intent and what the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the bill and how it changes the entire legal sys­tem under which web­sites operate.

January 19, 2012 – 5:38 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Copyright, Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Electronic Frontier Foundation – The Internet at its Best

EFF high­lights some of the largest sites that par­tic­i­pated in the SOPA/PIPA blackout.

January 19, 2012 – 5:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge

The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for peo­ple to get dig­i­tal information/media/anything is just wrong.

January 16, 2012 – 11:25 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Copyright, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

ArsTechnica – Wikipedia to join reddit in SOPA blackout Wednesday

I’ll also be post­ing a mes­sage to protest and inform peo­ple about PIPA and SOPA, though I imag­ine Wikipedia will have a much larger influence.

January 16, 2012 – 7:38 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

American Civil Liberties Union – It Was Close, But We Won: Viva Net Neutrality!

Yeah for Net Neu­tral­ity, boo for my State Sen­a­tor being the one who intro­duced this resolution.

November 10, 2011 – 9:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

GeekWire – Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated

Some really inter­est­ing stuff in here.

October 29, 2011 – 1:42 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

The White House – Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents

Why haven’t you signed this petition?

September 24, 2011 – 2:23 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Patent, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off