Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 23, 2002 05:36 AM
"The Right to Read" is fabulous. when I first read it, back around '97 or so, I thought it was a little extreme, but was willing to allow that political satire often is extreme, deliberately for effect. Still, I thought his point would ahve been stronger if he'd toned it down a little.
I was wrong.
I re-read it about six months ago, and in the light of the DMCA, CBDTPA and TCPA, it no loner seems extreme at all. In fact, it seems eerily prescient.
Practically all the major points in "The Right to Read" are either enacted or pending legislation.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 23, 2002 05:36 AMI was wrong.
I re-read it about six months ago, and in the light of the DMCA, CBDTPA and TCPA, it no loner seems extreme at all. In fact, it seems eerily prescient.
Practically all the major points in "The Right to Read" are either enacted or pending legislation.
This is a Bad Thing. (But a very good essay!)
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