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____/ Homer on Tuesday 19 Jul 2011 19:49 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ Homer on Tuesday 19 Jul 2011 15:27 : \____
>
>>> It's becoming clearer every day that this "charity" is just a
>>> lobbying and investment organisation to launder Microsoft's
>>> blood-money.
>>
>> That's one way to put it. But there are other 'foundations' that do
>> similar things.
>
> Yes, sometimes they call themselves "Think Tanks", like this one headed
> by libertarian propagandist Carly Fiorina (ironically called "Freedom
> House"), which has apparently "calculated" that the US is the second
> freest country in the world, primarily based on the criteria of
> non-interference from government.
The Republicans spin deregulation as "Freedom" (to corporations, not actual
people).
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/18/internet_freedom_league_table/
>
> Really?
>
> Well sure, apart from those pesky things like the Patriot Act, the DMCA
> (and DMCA "takedown" censorship), NSA National Security Letters, patents
> and other legally encouraged forms of racketeering, and that whole
> business of branding journalists as "terrorists", then calling for their
> assassination, just because they expose government corruption
> (Wikileaks).
>
> But yeah, apart from that...
Well, there's always scum like Richard Berman and ALEC.
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~~ Best of wishes
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