frankbi
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06:22:12 pm on October 23, 2009 | # |
Yet another Best Conspiracy Theory Ever: the Heartland Institute claims that the Free Software movement is rooted in Marxism, and that it’s really a pretext to crush your freedoms! [cached]
The [US Federal Communications Commission] chairman [...wants] to claim for the FCC the power to decide how every bit of data is transferred from the Web to every personal computer and handheld device in the nation. This is exactly what the radical founders of the net neutrality movement had in mind.
The concept can be traced to an iconoclastic figure, Richard Stallman, a self-described software freedom activist who introduced the term “copyleft” in the mid-1980s. In his 2002 essay “Free Software, Free Society,” Stallman fiercely attacks the idea that intellectual property rights are one of the keystones of individual liberty, so important that patents and copyrights are affirmatively protected in the body of the [US] Constitution. [...]
Eben Moglen’s 2003 treatise The dotCommunist Manifesto is more honest about the thinking behind net neutrality — it’s sprinkled throughout with the language of communism’s great and bloody revolutionaries. [...]
[...] Net neutrality divests control over the Internet from the private sector to the government. And in typical Marxist fashion, innocuous words — the language of neutralism and liberty — cloak an agenda that would crush freedom.
ScruffyDan 06:42 on October 25, 2009 | #
How does anyone take them seriously. I mean this is beyond absurd. I guess this means Google (a promoter and user of free open source software, and a proponent of net neutrality) is communist. Don’t let their billions in profits fool you!
frankbi 07:19 on October 25, 2009 | #
That is a very very good question…
Hahah. It’s like, well, the vast worldwide Jewish conspiracy.
greenfyre 23:54 on October 26, 2009 | #
Great find Frank, LOVE the propagations you do
frankbi 12:05 on October 27, 2009 | #
Heartland Institute has a notion of software freedom « International Journal of Inactivism 08:04 on October 31, 2009 | #
[...] more experience with. After publishing an essay by one James Lakely on their web site about the oh-so-scary Marxist plot behind the Free Software movement, they’ve put up another essay by Lakely which says this: [cached] Apple has approved the [...]
Heartland ‘Institute’ criticizes conspiracy mongers (after touting conspiracy theories itself) « International Journal of Inactivism — Mindless Link Propagation section 11:46 on November 20, 2009 | #
[...] after Heartland has mindlessly regurgitated right-wing conspiracy theories itself. [...]