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Vint Cerf: The government is going overboard in Internet copyright control | VentureBeat

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation “When Bob and I started writing the specs for the Internet in 1973…” Only a handful of people can start a sentence anything like that.   When asked what he would tell the developer of the Next Big Thing, the technology that could replace the Internet, Cerf said, “Shoot the patent lawyer.”Via venturebeat.com

Lauren Weinstein’s Blog: The Coming Fascist Internet

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationIn their efforts to control people and protect profits, governments and associated industries (often in league with powerful Internet Service Providers — ISPs — who in some respects are admittedly caught in the middle), seem willing to impose draconian, ultimately fascist censorship, identification, and other controls on the Internet and its users, even extending into the…

Congress: Trading stock on inside information? Corruption hardwired into the sysytem

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation 60 Minutes on CBS News: Congress: Trading stock on inside information?   While Congressman Bachus was publicly trying to keep the economy from cratering, he was privately betting that it would, buying option funds that would go up in value if the market went down. He would make a variety of trades and profited at…

Occupy Wall Street takes a new direction: It’s an “open-source” movement

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation“The occupation is incredibly important as a symbol, as an organizing platform and as a model,” said another active participant, Max Berger. “But ultimately the impact the movement will have is a result of organizing that takes place outside the park.”   “The way it works is, right now we have a set of tactics and…