The real issue is intellectual property ownership and sharing rights.
The real issue behind SOPA, PIPA and DMCA is not online piracy or violating laws, but what those laws should be and fundamentally ownership of words, phrases, media, music, video, from the Bible right on up to the present.
Big corporations want to own words, ideas, concepts, genes, and more. But Gen Y understands that sharing of words and images is essential for the Knowledge Society, innovation, invention, and the betterment of people.
The classic example: there is a corporation that owns the patent on medicine that could cure hundreds of thousands of people in Africa. No only won't this corporation save those lives, they won't let anyone else save these people either.
The head of Wikipedia, understanding the Nine Shift 100 year connection, compared it to 100 years ago when bank robbers used cars (Marmot mainly). The solution was to get the bank robbers, not ban autos. Yes, when we decide what is piracy and what should be illegal, enforce those laws. But first we need to decide what should be legal in this century.
Photo: the Kinnikinnic River, which runs through our town just a few blocks from my house. The water stays same temperature throughout the year, so it doesn't freeze in winter. It flows into the St. Croix River.
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Pharmaceutical companies interested in marketing to me and others with similar medical histories of complaints, procedures, and medications? There are, of course, legitimate reasons for them to support this project. But as purely self-interested promoters of "innovative" products, they can't be trusted. (I don't know who coined the phrase "precision medicine," but it has an icky sound to it.)
Insurance companies?
Prospective employers?
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Posted by: William Draves | February 04, 2012 at 01:35 AM
The head of Wikipedia is actually Gen X, not Gen Y.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
Posted by: Suzanne | January 30, 2012 at 03:04 PM