As a follow-up to my post last week on overreach by federal prosecutors, I highly recommend an excellent piece by lawyer Dan Kennedy on Aaron Swartz and the “sick culture” that pervades the Department of Justice. A few excerpts: It seems never to have occurred to [the federal prosecutors] that there is something wrong with overcharging, and then raising […]
There are many reasons why much of the American public identifies with the Obamas. Here’s one more similarity between the Obamas and my family: a father and two daughters focused on their smartphones, and a wife who is smart enough not to be tethered to an electronic device. Cross-posted to Infoglut Tumblr.
A very busy week and not much time to post. But I must share some bits from this excellent editorial by Glenn Greenwald in the Guardian on the Aaron Swartz suicide and prosecutorial overreach. Like Greenwald, I am deeply concerned over increasing federal prosecutorial abuse. A few additional and appalling examples, in my opinion, include the […]
From no less a “liberal” source than U.S. News and World Report comes news that IP addresses in the U.S. Congress have been linked to BitTorrent file-sharing of copyrighted movies: In late October, someone at the U.S. House of Representatives decided to catch up on the latest season of Dexter, illegally downloading an episode of […]
