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Aaron Swartz indicted on charges of "wire fraud, computer fraud" etc.

Aaron Swartz indicted on charges of "wire fraud, computer fraud" etc.

Swartz is known around these parts for being a programmer, long-time blogger, early employee of Reddit, and legal enthusiast. Nick Bilton, writing for the NY Times Bits blog:

Geist: Competitive Conditions prompt web data-cap debate

Geist: Competitive conditions prompt Web data-cap debate - thestar.com

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has struggled for years to deal with an issue that lies at the heart of Internet services in Canada: how can it foster greater competition from independent Internet providers while also addressing telecom and cable company concerns about network congestion.

In 2009, the CRTC believed it found the right solution. It established Internet traffic management guidelines (often referred to as net neutrality rules) that created limits on how Internet providers could throttle or limit download speeds and it encouraged providers to use “economic measures” such as data caps to manage demand by making it costlier to consume large amounts of data.

How many jobs has the internet killed?

V. Vale complains about Internet cultural holocaust | Beyond The Beyond

1) massive discounts no “local” merchant could afford to give
2) “free” illegal downloads of the entirety of the world’s cultural output, thus chopping off at the root any chance of lengthy artistic development and maturation
3) billions of shocking / titillating images, films, videos and words whose net effect is even more passivity-inducement and lethargy
4) fake social networking whose RESULT is: nobody gets together in the same room anymore — too much trouble. Everyone’s at home consuming images and audio on an electronic screen, writing inconsequential fluff, and twittering their lives away…(Yes, a few who can still afford it, sit “alone together” in coffeehouses, glued to their electronic devices).
5) in sum, constant, hypnotizing distraction so that silence and solitude have become unthinkable, obsolete and positively quaint…

WikiLeaks' Brilliant MasterCard Commercial Parody

There are some people who do not like change, for everyone else there is Wikileaks.