https://psybelle.dreamwidth.org/ psybelle - Dreamwidth Studios Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:24:04 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios psybelle personal https://psybelle.dreamwidth.org/379365.html Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:24:04 GMT https://psybelle.dreamwidth.org/379365.html Today is "Internet Freedom Day"...<br /><br /><a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/01/18/its-internet-freedom-day-ti.html">Do you have a dream?</a><br /><br />Of course, MLK gave more than one speech. <a href="http://zinnedproject.org/posts/548">This is a good start</a>, and the text for <i>Beyond Vietnam</i> is a must-read. <a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm">"We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."</a><br /><br /><br />(Obviously not MLK) <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/aaron-swartz-case-011713">"The power of money" isn't supposed to mean jack-shit in a courtroom. Every advance in progressive jurisprudence for over a century has at least in part been about lessening the influence of "the power of money" over the judicial process.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/opening-arguments-in-the-trial-of-public-opinion-after-aaron-swartz-death/">A decent collection of links on Aaron Swartz's suicide.</a><br /><br /><br />Not the last word (I hope there never is a "last word"...) Lessig, as always, writes beautifully and powerfully <a href="http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40845525507/a-time-for-silence"> and made me cry</a>...<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=psybelle&ditemid=379365" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments aaron mlk public 0