Freedom of speech and freedom of information are the same thing, and you can read 'Online Piracy' in this context as the euphemistic counter term to 'freedom of information'.
For it has been under the pretense of 'stopping piracy' that the US government has been prosecuting internet entrepreneurs like Kim Dotcom who have been active proponents of freedom of information online.
Yet it has been freedom of information that has enabled the most efficient outcomes for the economy to be delivered.
Freedom of information will always be in the interests of the best working democracy too, and this remains a big picture voter issue.
A big picture democrat voter issue.
Which is one reason why the prosecution of Kim Dotcom has the potential to play out so horribly for the left leaning protagonists involved.
It even smacks of a show-trial ( helicopters, really? ) as if in some small way to make up for its lack of actual substance.
A case that resorts to the fallacy of using second parties' infringement of a US civil copyright law to criminally prosecute a national of another country, an individual who does not even reside in the United States.
Eyepatches anyone?
09 Jun 2013, 1:53 am
