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The SOPA Debate and How It’s Affected by Congress’s Understanding of Child Porn

January 11, 2012

Update (1/22/2012): SOPA was indefinitely postponed by Rep. Lamar Smith on Friday (PIPA is likewise stalled). Rep. Smith also has another Internet rights bill on deck though: the The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which mandates that… Continue reading →

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Hypertext-Wired Brains and Irrelevancy

May 30, 2010

Something tells me that these two areas of study, unfortunately, have interrelated results: From Wired, “The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brain” (Nicholas Carr): Research was painting a fuller, very different picture of the cognitive effects of hypertext. Navigating linked documents,… Continue reading →

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Rep. Pete Hoekstra not behind PeteHoekstra.com…but was able to out the guy who is

January 6, 2010

PeteHoekstra.com was snapped out by an anonymous registrar and began posting anti-Rep. Pete Hoekstra screeds. Though the registration was presumably private, somehow Rep. Hoekstra’s staff was able to out the owner, Ben Pardos Padnos, a longtime Internet entrepreneur who claims… Continue reading →

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