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If you tried to visit Wikipedia today, you probably were quite disappointed since you saw a page much like this:

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This fantastic video reminds us of how amazing the free market truly is. We should never forget how people working freely together will help lift all boats in ways no one can anticipate. Don’t let anyone tell you that God wants a socialist economy, EVER. Such thoughts are completely fallacious, and completely antithetical to how God intends for us to live together.

Freedom is the default.

(Great job Students for Liberty friend Michelle Fields as well. If I recall correctly, she is a student at Church of Christ-based Pepperdine University as well! Michelle, if you’re an LCC reader please comment so we can all brag on you a bit…)

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I have been so busy the past few weeks that I haven’t really kept up with the latest happenings around the world, aside from the US military bombing the crud out of Libya… but let’s think happier thoughts for a moment. Why so serious? (NO Batman.) Here are a couple of fun things I happened across this week.

I am fascinated by cultural movements for a variety of reasons, and some of the most interesting cultural tidbits you find occur in the form of internet memes. The website Know Your Meme does an incredible job of documenting and explaining how these things develop and propagate, and this live presentation at a recent conference illustrates why they consider their work important to the preservation of cultural knowledge. It even has some implications to how we think about intellectual property (or the lack thereof). Best quote: “Culture isn’t just valuable when you can stuff it full of DRM and sell it.”

Also, if you haven’t heard about Amazon’s Cloud Player, check it out. It is AMAZING.

That’s all for now, enjoy your weekend!

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Recapping the interesting news and stories of the past week.

Egyptians are rioting in protest of corruption and terrible economic policies in their government. This is some of the first serious international news of this sort I have seen since the economic crisis began, and it indicative of how the entire world economy continues to suffer from the insane economic policies of central banks and governments around the world.

Reports from social networking services and beyond indicate that the government is cracking down on the spread of information via the Internet.

Yet we also see great and small signs of hope in this crisis. Boing-Boing has posted multiple pictures (click here and here) of protesters quite literally approaching the barbaric and tyrannical police and army forces and kissing them. I smell a Pulitzer prize coming for this photo:

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Check out this photo recap of yesterday’s protests.

The bullet point version of what’s happening (courtesy of TDW):

  1. Egyptian riot police clash with thousands of anti-government demonstrators.
  2. Police fire tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds in Cairo, Suez and Alexandria.
  3. Suez sees some of the worst violence, with a police station being set on fire.
  4. Reports say opposition figurehead Mohamed ElBaradei, who joined Cairo protests, has been placed under house arrest.
  5. The authorities have disrupted mobile phone networks and internet services.
  6. The unrest follows three days of protests in which at least eight people have been killed.

Whew, that was heavy.

Here’s a fun comic to top it off.

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22

Against Net Neutrality

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Yesterday, the FCC voted 3-2 for new measures regulating how content is transferred over the internet. Stephan Kinsella’s blog post at Mises.org the day before is a good summary with lots of links showing how this new power grab by the government technocracy is both immoral and completely stupid. The internet is one the last bastions of freedom in the world, and it would be terrible for regulation to ruin it.

Quoting Stephan in full:

As a recent column in the Wall Street Journal reminds us, online freedom is jeopardized in the name of “net neutrality” (The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom). This is just another case of the state re-labeling things to sound benign but that are really invasions of liberty and property rights–another good example being use of the term “intellectual property” to masque the true nature of state-granted monopoly privilege rights (patent and copyright) (see my post Intellectual Properganda).

It is true that some corporations probably have extra-market power to control aspects of the Internet, as the result of state interventions such as IP, FCC licensing, antitrust law, big business favoritism, and so on. But the solution is not to grant the state even more power to regulate private companies.This is the criminal gang that has fouled things up in the first place. Another recent example of federal Chutzpah is the Obama administration’s proposal to provide a “Web Privacy ‘Bill of Rights’“–how obscene. The mob that is the greatest threat to online privacy freedom, and rights will protect us? I’m reminded of the phrase, “We’re from the government. And we’re here to help.” Thanks, but no thanks, guys.

These are the same parasites who do everything they can to hobble and destroy business and innovation–they impose costly regulations; tax individuals, making employees more costly; inflate the money supply and cause destructive business cycles; impose insane, murderous policies on pharmaceutical and medical innovations via the FDA; and then impose double tax by taxing corporations too, after imposing Sarbannes Oxley on them for the “privilege” to exist as a corporation (a privilege that is not a privilege; corporations do not need state privileges to exist–see Legitimizing the Corporation and Other Posts; Richman and Carson on the BP Oil Spill; Should Libertarians Oppose “Capitalism”?; Rothbard on Corporations and Limited Liability for Tort; Comment on Knapp’s Big Government, Big Business — Conjoined Twins; Pilon on Corporations: A Discussion with Kevin Carson; Defending Corporations: Block and Huebert).

And then, as a solution to the damage done to innovation by the state’s malicious hobbbling, the maniacal intellectual properteers urge giving the state more power to grant intellectual monopoly privilege grants to companies. (But then, if the companies use these monopoly grants “too much”, it’s called “abuse” and the state persecutes them under its evil antitrust laws.) (See State Antitrust (anti-monopoly) law versus state IP (pro-monopoly) law.)

Likewise, net neutrality is an attempt by the state to see more power to control private property rights as an ostensible response to various “market failures” that are really themselves caused by state intervention. In this, it is anohter example of the state’s creating a crisis and using this as a justification to seize more power under the pretense of saving the people from the crisis that it caused. (See Robert Higgs, Crisis & Leviathan.)

Libertarians should oppose net neutrality–and the state interventions that gives rise to the problems net neutrality pretends to address. (See my posts Net Neutrality Developments and Libertarian Take on Net Neutrality (both reposted below); also Harvard’s Yochai Benkler on Net Neutrality and Innovation.) Don’t trust the state to “protect” you. Ever.

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