Privacy is Awesome: the playbook for killing CISPA, America's universal surveillance law via @boingboing #sopa

Stay vigilant mes amis. Fear of a #SOPA North. I feel better that @mgeist is watching the back door!

Can @Reddit Vote Down a Congressman? @Reddit's Super PAC is going after the creator of #SOPA

Copyright cannot be allowed to be treated as a more fundamental right than free expression, or a more important issue than a free and open internet.

"Indeed, economies of scale work well in periods of energy "ascent", when the supply of energy increases, but work less well in periods of energy "descent". In these circumstances, economies of scope are needed. These types of economies are exactly what peer production (which encompasses open knowledge, free culture, free software, open and shared designs, open hardware and distributed manufacturing) is all about…

So what are the economies of scope of this new age? They come in two flavours: the mutualising of knowledge and the mutualising of tangible resources…

What will the new system look like if economies of scope become the norm, replacing economies of scale as the primary driver of the economy?

Global open design communities could be accompanied by a global network of micro-factories producing locally, such as the ones that open-source car companies like Local Motors and Wikispeed are proposing."

“We are now likely to be in a world without #SOPA and without #ACTA.”

RT @suffert: The Cybersecurity Bill Alphabet Soup: A Guide < #CISPA, #SOPA, #PIPA