Entries from March 2008

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Your World

This week, CampusMovieFest, a pretty great organization that gives film equipment to kids to make short films in one week, came to BU. This year, their primary sponsor is AT&T, a company which is responsible for voluntarily and illegally assisting the NSA in one of the largest and most intrusive privacy violations in human history. […]

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Stanford University Actively Reporting Students to the RIAA; Hamfisted Government Journalism

Stanford University, once home to Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, has just changed it’s campus network policy to actively report all DMCA infringements to the copyright overlords.
According to my friend George, a Stanford freshman: dude. shit is fffffucked up at stanford
This article from the Stanford Daily covers today’s story.

This drastic change now requires the university […]

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Lessig Decides Against Running For Congress

Bummer.
After lots of thinking and advice, I have decided it does not make sense for the Change Congress movement for me to a run for Congress in CA12. We would have just over 30 days to introduce a district to me and to an idea. That would not be enough time to convince them to […]