How to take advantage of overreach...

First, you point out to those sponsoring and/or voting for the legislation that there are many -- academians, technologists, corporations, etc.  opposed to the legislation.  Second, you work with those sponsors and involve them in groups that actually bring parties to study issues impacting the economy (such as www.geca.org).  Third, you take good notes, publish them on the net relentlessly, eventually those notes become source material for articles and even campaign issues.  Fourth, you must reduce the argument to "kitchen table" issues that will gather the attention of Joe and Mary 6pack -- until they understand, we can't do much.

John Palfrey: "Professor Lessig is right in the pessimism of his last book and recent speeches." [Scripting News]

9:04:47 PM    

Can the net be an archive?

I agree with Dave's concern given the fragility of links.  Course, if you track local news, those links are even more fragile.  Ironically, it is the local news that drives a lot of research for future policy debates. So, if we capture the pages and allow those in our community access, we'll run afoul of copyright law -- unless we call ourselves a public library... hmmm... too much caffeine, mind running in too many directions here...

DaveNet: The paper-of-record. [Scripting News]

9:04:35 AM    

Is this one of the top ten issues we face?

Gotta speak at a luncheon next week ... access to content, and who controls it, and who knows what content you see -- that's important right?

InfoWorld: Will broadband providers control content? As the U.S.' Internet architecture moves from dial-up access to broadband, some speakers at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference here Thursday expressed concern that the major cable operators that provide the high-speed networks will control users' access to content. [Tomalak's Realm]

9:00:10 AM