I've never been particularly impressed with Orrin Hatch, and now I'm even less impressed. Yup, he thinks it would be perfectly alright to let someone damage your computer if they think you are illegally downloading their copyrighted material. Forget due process, forget the law. Let's open the doors to industry hackers to destroy people's computers without proof or consequences. Thanks, Hatchy-boy.
Technology is a wonderful thing, and people who are technically stupid won't change that. Just look at the Baghdad bloggers Salam Pax and G. These folks defy the odds to get stories out to us. The same thing is now happening in Iran, as a popular movement is developing that could possibly change that country for the good. Andrew Sullivan, a leader in this strange blogosphere thing, is asking bloggers to focus on freedom in Iraq, particularly on July 9th. I agree, and here's a link to another blog about Iranian bloggers. I'm going to start checking out these blogs and linking to the strongest ones (that are written in English, of course).
For your part, go read and understand. And if you are religious, send those folks your prayers.
Technology also lets me read great commentary by strong writers like Arthur Silber, who I'm surprised to find I agree with much of the time. Silber has a fantastic piece on people who vilified anti-war folk that pretty much sums up all my frustration with the comments I got on this blog as well as the comments I saw elsewhere.
If you have time, also check out his take on the missing 727. Yeah, that's right. A missing 727. The big plane. It's missing.
If you can get to Washington Post's website (may require free registration), check out this article about some intelligence guy who quit Bush's circle and joined the Democrats in trying to oust Bush. Now, before this thing gets all over the net, read the article. The guy was already a democrat. And there is a fantastic quote about the current administration, but it is attributed to his wife: "It's a very closed, small, controlled group. This is an administration that determines what it thinks and then sets about to prove it. There's almost a religious kind of certainty. There's no curiosity about opposing points of view. It's very scary. There's kind of a ghost agenda." Keep that in mind if you hear about this story in the future.
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