Cato Unbound: “Internet Liberation: Alive or Dead?”

by on January 11, 2006

Cato Unbound is the Cato Institute’s new quasi-blog Web magazine. Their recently released January issue is right up TLF’s alley. The topic this month is “Internet Liberation: Alive or Dead?” It leads off with a “step-outside-the-box-burn-the-box-grow-tea-with-the-ashes-and-read-the-tea-leaves” big-think essay by virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier. Today, they posted a crisp litany of criticisms from open source guru Eric Raymond. Replies from Glenn Reynolds, John Perry Barlow, and David Gelernter will roll out over the next week. Recommended reading!

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About Jim Harper

Jim Harper is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. A Poli Sci major at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Jim served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly in his final year at Hastings College of the Law. Prior to becoming a policy analyst and advocate, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the U.S. House and Senate. He avoids genuine life experience by watching lots and lots of reality TV.

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