Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
I don’t know what’s worse: the fact that this guy decided to drive 1,300 miles (from Virginia to Texas) to burn down a guy’s house after the guy called him a “nerd” during an online flame war, or that along the way the moron posted photos online showing the welcome signs at several states’ borders to prove to his Internet friends that he meant business.
Did he not stop to think that those photos might be used as evidence against him later on at trial?!
Adam Thierer / Senior Fellow in Technology & Innovation at the R Street Institute in Washington, DC. Formerly a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, President of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Director of Telecommunications Studies at the Cato Institute, and a Fellow in Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation.
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