random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
Freedom has to be won, and, more importantly, the consequences of freedom have to be lived. You do not win freedom of information by filching data from a corporate warehouse, or begging the authorities to kindly abandon their monopolies, copyrights and patents. You have to create that freedom by a deliberate act of will, think it up, assemble it, sacrifice for it, make it free to others who have a similar will to live that freedom
tagged: freedom, copyright, intellectual property, patent, monopolies, living free, revolution
—Bruce Sterling, "The Manifesto of January 3, 2000", posting to Viridian list.
Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
“I’m pro-choice and I shoot back.”
It’s not strictly true since I don’t own a gun.
I love how Bill O’Reilly freely tosses around incendiary rhetoric (arguably, “inciting violence”) but is so incapable of taking responsibility or acknowledging his own words. Why is he a frickin’ pundit talking head if he thinks his words [...]
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politics, religion, sexism,
abortion rights, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, George Tiller, murder, pro-life movement, Rachel Maddow, reproductive rights, right-wing violence, violence.
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