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Comment · 13 years ago
Press freedom generally trumps privacy, as it should.
Comment · 13 years ago
More on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYKKvnKQkkE
Comment · 13 years ago
So why do you feel compelled to post when you know what you are saying is old news? You just adds to the noise and make it off putting for anyone else to post that actually knows about this event including your obvious point.
Comment · 13 years ago
From what I've seen I agree with your first point. AirBnB is more like The Pirate Bay than YouTube.
Comment · 13 years ago
You can't really compare different data sets like that.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
> He uses the royal "we" to define a group (here, engineers) and then prescribes very broad goals for what "we" "ought" to do.
That is pretty much the definition of ethics [0].
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/whatisethics.h...
Comment · 13 years ago
The concept of freedom can quickly become confusing, but I think the accepted terminology is that "freedom from" is negative freedom as in protections like universal healthcare. While "freedom to" is positive freedom as in expressions like absolute[-1] freedom of speech [0]. Where negative freedom is more left and positive freedom more right. You of course also have to account for the political y-axis (or similar concept [1]) i.e. the level of authoritarianism.
I think it's interesting that many of the concepts that the US prides itself on originally included negative freedom in a more prominent way than you see today [2][3][4].
[-1] Non-absolute freedom of speech can probably also be seen as a negative freedom.
[0] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum#Other_multi-...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Truslow_Adams#American_Dr...
Comment · 13 years ago
I don't know. In terms of excitement and creativity I think we're slowly catching up to the end of the 90s.
Comment · 13 years ago
I guess he's a capitalist.
Comment · 13 years ago
This should give some indication.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_Th...
Comment · 13 years ago
There's more than a semantic difference between moral and material interests. In fact most "internet hippies" I know wants strong moral protection for authors [0][1]. It's a fairly central concept in the copyright debate, not least since it's part of the universal declaration of human rights.
[0] http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/the-pirate-party-on-c... [1] http://the1709blog.blogspot.se/2012/05/pirate-party-plans-fo... [2] http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G06/400/60/PDF/G0...