Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Tech issues don’t move the needle in national elections like yesterday’s, but below I’ll make some general observations, followed by a few on winners and losers in issue areas I cover. All in all, I think it’s a good election result. We’re back to divided government. The acute tension between the Republican House and Democratic [...]
I cannot in strong enough terms recommend that everyone read Gordon Crovitz’s latest Wall Street Journal column, “Free Speech, Now that Speech is Free.” It perfectly encapsulates everything we stand for here and makes the case that I have made again and again: Speech regulation — of all flavors — makes less and less sense [...]
Geese are flying overhead. Leaves are orange. The election is over. A historic moment. And I will be optimistic, and hope that although the economics of the moment seems to be a return to things past… to the 1930s, it will turn out to be otherwise, for a good bit is known now that was [...]
< p style=”text-align: left;”>In the beginning, there was Obamamania: < p style=”text-align: left;”>Then there was Palinmania: Poor Joe Biden. He gets fewer Google searches than that Jesus guy–whatever he‘s running for. Google Trends is a nifty proxy for measuring public interest in a very narrowly defined subject. The examples above show ”Search volume” (the total number of [...]
May 28, 2012
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
