net.freedom

nerdware pointed me at Amnesty International‘s irrepressible.info campaign. If you give a fuck about freedom (and if you don’t, what are you doing here?), go sign their pledge and, if you’ve got a non-LJ web site you can stuff a fragment of javascript code upon, add a fragment of text that someone, somewhere doesn’t want people to read onto your pages.

Can’t demo here, because of LJ’s security filtering, but you can see an example on my personal home page.

bits

The tragedy of the corporation, vile hypocrisy and on running cross-grain, prompted by thoughts here on this.

Meanwhile, danah boyd on global Information and local Interaction and the consequences of the culture of fear.

Also, tonight ramtops and I watched United 93, which was far better than I feared it might be. There were moments when it skated closer to uncritical hegemonic celebration than I would have liked, but there can be no denial of the courage of the passengers and crew (and their relatives). That the hijackers were portrayed as being human feels remarkable (even if it shouldn’t); no easy answers or explanations were offered to the viewer, which of itself might explain the film’s ‘R’ rating in the US.

Recommended.