Is Bram Cohen really against network neutrality?

Although it was widely publicized that Bittorrent creator Bram Cohen was against network neutrality, Techdirt argues that he was actually referring to services like Cachelogic, which provide services that are not fundamentally incompatible with network neutrality.
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Geneticist claims to have found ‘God gene’ in humans

An American molecular geneticist has concluded after comparing more than 2,000 DNA samples that a person's capacity to believe in God is linked to brain chemicals.
According to the linked atticle, this research comes from the same person who claimed to have found a genetic sequence that makes homosexuality more likely in 1993, so this might [...]

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Republish censored sites on your site

An Amnesty campaign that allows users to republish and spread sites that are being repressed on their own sites. You can get a badge that will dynamically show different excerpts from censored sites around the world and link back to irrepressible.info where you can learn more about the site in question and the campaign itself.
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Democracy 2.0: Write your Own Laws

Wiki Democracy is an experiment that asks: if there were no laws in the United States, what laws would you impose on America? Users write their own laws, and through digg-like voting and comments, the best laws are filtered to the top.
Fascinating idea. There's also a section for Canadian laws.
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The Value of Privacy

Thought-provoking essay from Wired.com, on why exactly you should be concerned about the NSA spying on us.
This article convincingly rebuts those who say that "If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide." Choice quote:
Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it [...]

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Thoughts on E3

I don't play many video games – I actually do own a PS2 which I've let my brother borrow for about a year – but I was following E3 rather closely, mainly because half of Digg's front page stories over the past few days have been stories about E3 and because the competitive landscape has [...]

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Majority of Americans OK with NSA Spying

A Washington Post poll shows that the majority (63%) of Americans are ok with the cyber and wiretapping efforts of the NSA. A higher majority are ok if their personal calls were collected by the NSA. Americans are apparently willing to sacrifice privacy for security.
Baa-aa-aa.
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I've essentially moved offices since my old computer does not have access to the internet any longer; our sysadmin Gord won't let it communicate with the outside world until and unless he can figure out what's causing it to send spam. So now I'm in with James (in Joe's old office) and using another computer [...]

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Excellent overview of WIPO’s webcasting provision

An excellent explanation of why the webcasting provision of the new broadcast treaty is a bad idea and how a growing number of organizations and individuals are mobilizing to oppose it. Looks like it may make WIPO stop and think.
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Lookout Youtube! UN Cooking Podcast-Killing Treaty

The UN's World Intellectual Property Organization has reconvened to discuss a treaty that will kill innovative Internet audio/video offerings — like podcasting, YouTube, Google Video, and Democracy Player.
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Just to clarify, this treaty would create a new layer of rights for webcasters to control copies of retransmitted content regardless of the original [...]

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