« Against the Day | Main | Bilocation via avatarbot » 95 Theses of Geek ActivismThis llittle manifesto is pretty good... nail it to your door and read it. I was surprised the author thought "geek activism" was something new... I was moved to post the following.... Your initial premise ("Geek activism has not taken off yet") is incorrect, I think. There was plenty of geek.activism in the 90s: EFF, of course, but also EPIC and CDT, CPSR and NetAction, GILC, the Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, 2600, Wired Mag's activist days, netizen, Jon Katz' Geek Force, my own Electronic Frontiers Forum at HotWired, etc. That said, there's good stuff in your theses... I might disagree with a few. For instance, there's no guarantee that we'll still have a public domain in the future... legislators have talked seriously about permanent copyright. Proprietary data formats can store public information as long as the information remains public and is stored in other formats that aren't proprietary (but I know what you meant). I'm not sure that spimes are a sign that things are going well... spimes have a sinister side (read Everyware). I left a few things out of that historical rant: FringeWare, Cypherpunks, Fight Censorship, and, of course, EFF-Austin. jon posted this at 7:58 PM |
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