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Think Belligerent (Updated)

A Wired article by Tom McNichol in the May 2005 issue talks about the New Apple ™ and the company’s plan to subvert free speech. Steve Jobs will do anything to protect his precious secrets. So he’s suing Apple’s biggest fans. Inside the Mac daddy’s battle with the rumor blogs. Nick Ciarelli is the kind […]

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L.A. Times: Apple "Chilly and Arrogant as an oil Company"

The L.A. Times has a story this morning on Apple’s attempts at an end-around the constitution in issuing a subpoena to my former ISP in an attempt to read my email. For all its skill at designing products that strike an emotional chord with consumers, Apple Computer Inc. sometimes projects a corporate personality as chilly […]

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Apple Legal Wranglings

Some folks are thinking a bit too simplistically about the current Apple legal wranglings. Computer users are not going to be changing their operating system based on perceptions about fairness or who is the underdog. The big issue here is that Apple is damaging its relationship with the mainstream press and over what? To put […]

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Blogshine Sunday and Public Access to Gov't Information

On Sunday, March 13, bloggers around the world blogged about the need for access to government information. Read More…

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CNet: Apple lawsuit: Thinking different?

An opinion piece by Charles Cooper for CNet also discusses Apple’s trampling of the First Amendment: The real subtext is this: Apple is directed by a collection of control freaks who would have found themselves quite at home in the Nixon White House. The big difference being that reporters had the constitutional freedom to report […]