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PA Gov. Corbett Tells NCAA Where to Put Its Sanctions

Wednesday January 2, 2013

(David Post)A couple of days after the now-fairly-infamous Freeh Report was released with the results of the investigation into the Penn State child abuse scandal, I wrote the following here on the VC (in “NCAA To the Taxpayers of Pennsylvania:  Drop Dead“): So let me get this straight: The NCAA is ordering the taxpayers of Pennsylvania, [...]

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More Fallout on the Right re the Right to Copyright

Wednesday December 19, 2012

(David Post)Like I said (see “Republicans Going Copyleft”), things are getting pretty interesting now that  the political “right” has discovered that there might be some mileage to be gained by seizing the initiative on copyright reform, an issue  (a) that is appealing to young voters, and one that (b) the Democrats, dependent on Hollywood dough, have [...]

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Thoughts on the Future of the Internet and its Rules and Regulations

Friday December 14, 2012

(David Post)[Early last week the folks who run the blog at the American Constitution Society asked me to contribute a posting on the World Conference on International Telecommunications, taking place in Dubai.  The original posting is here; I've also reprinted it in full below.  I decided against just giving the link and sending you all over [...]

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Why Don’t People Get It About Jefferson and Slavery?

Saturday December 1, 2012

(David Post)We seem to have once again entered a  period in which we will be subject to more Jefferson-the-Perpetuator-of-Slavery bashing – witness the rather appalling Op-Ed piece in today’s NYT by Paul Finkelman on “The Monster of Monticello.”   The founding generation, Finkelman writes, helped perpetuate a “treason against the hopes of the world,” by “fail[ing] to place [...]

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More on the (Still Pending) “Anti-Internet Treaty”

Tuesday November 27, 2012

(David Post)Courtesy of Larry Downes and the (indispensable) WCITLeaks.org document repository, some evidence that the UN is gearing up for a public relations push in support of what Downes is (rightly) calling the “Anti-Internet Treaty” — viz., various proposals on the table  at the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications which would give the UN’s  International [...]

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