Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The American blogosphere is going increasingly “viral” about a proposal advanced at the recent meeting of the Davos Economic Forum by Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, that an equivalent of a “driver’s licence” should be introduced for access to the web. This totalitarian call has been backed by articles and blogs in Time magazine and the New York Times.
As bloggers have not been slow to point out, the system being proposed is very similar to one that the government of Red China reluctantly abandoned as too repressive. It was inevitable that, sooner or later, the usual unholy alliance of government totalitarians and big business would attempt to end the democratic free-for-all that is the blogosphere. The United Nations is showing similar interest in moving to eliminate free speech.
The recent uprising in the blogosphere that resulted in the overturning of the Global Warming consensus can only have focused our rulers’ attention more acutely on this infuriating challenge to their totalitarian control. “What will go next?” they must be asking themselves. Unrestricted immigration? Punitive taxation? Even the European Union? With the helots exploiting a loophole in the PC Curtain that has otherwise been so remorselessly drawn down over freedom of expression, the internet represents a dangerously subversive force, fulfilling the role in the West that was formerly performed by samizdat publications inside the Soviet Union.
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A “driver’s licence” for the web would be Christmas every day of the year for the control freaks. One can all too easily imagine the criteria applied to licence applications.
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I forecast that the right to anonymity on the internet will become one of the most fiercely contested issues over the coming decade. Be very afraid…
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Even if implemented, I have faith that there will be enough people around who will build a system to get around it.
- pdwalker | 02/13/2010 @ 18:30I know there’s been efforts to regulate the WEB, but this is first I’ve heard of this.
Do you have any links?
- Kini | 02/13/2010 @ 23:00Remember:
Your Social Security Number will ONLY be used for Social Security Fund Processing.
It will NEVER be required as a general tracking or “indentification” document.
HEY, look! My cell phone has a GPS app, even when it’s “off”.
“Check here to opt-out of printing your SS# on your Gun “permit” and drivers license”
Damn! What WAS that number on my student ID# meal/pass card again?
“Uh oh, I got one of those Information Update requests. It looks official.”
“Whuja’ gotta do?”
“Oh look!, I just enter my SSN and the e-mail says “Wheel take cair of the rest!!!””
What could go wrong? After all, don’t you want your children to be safe?
- CaptDMO | 02/14/2010 @ 08:43First there are thoughts, then there are thoughts by big, important people with names that are worth something. Then there are official-looking papers, followed by campaigns, followed by non-binding treaties, followed by binding treaties or binding laws. After those last two it’s too late to protest anything.
Currently it would seem we’re at stage two. I respect the decision some may have to start their worrying at stage three, but I’m a stage two person. This should be as toxic to a worthy reputation as saying “the Jews are trying to take over the world,” “black people shouldn’t vote” or “women need to stay in the kitchen and do what they’re told.” There should be more fear involved in saying this stuff. Greater stigma against it.
- mkfreeberg | 02/14/2010 @ 17:24test
- philmon | 02/14/2010 @ 18:00Every time I get a tiny inkling of doubt…. that says maybe we’re overreacting and the fact that the 1960’s radical leftists now hold the reins of power … something like this comes along to tell me … “Nah. We’ve got it right.”
Should be fairly easy to find NYT editorials on it if they exist.
Hey, here’s the Time Magazine article (I feel all dirty now because I had to go through infowars to get it. What soap removes “conspiracy theory” dirt best? Ah, yes, “Fact Soap”, by Reality. On the other hand, they had the link and it is legit.)
Here’s the bit about theChinese government backing down from a similar proposal..
And finally, the NYT article. All from InfoWars. They’re not wrong about everything, I guess. Now where’s that soap?
- philmon | 02/14/2010 @ 18:04