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Pay no attention to that harried intern behind the opaque process

By m3t00 | Published: 09-06-04
State-corporatist innovative process revealed: industry lobbyists bitching that the groupthinktank’s independent report they paid for includes independent opinions. In the linked article, Michael Geist, who first spotted the plagiarized passages, uses an excellent phrase: It’s equally telling, if not more important, on the copyright side. It’s a very clear confirmation that the kind of policy [...]
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Plagiarism is necessary: state-corporatist innovation implies it

By m3t00 | Published: 09-05-29
It’s easy to laugh off this case of a right-wing think tank recalling three reports on intellectual property due to plagiarism, but what’s odd is not that the reports were copied but, rather, that that anyone would assume they could have been original. RIGHT-WING THINK TANK MAKES UNEXPECTED, BRILLIANT CONTRIBUTION THAT TRANSFORMS OSSIFIED DEBATE WITH [...]
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Meet the new octopus, same as the old octopus

By m3t00 | Published: 08-05-26
Radar‘s story about “Main Core” sounds like Christic Institute stuff bubbling up again. According to a senior government official who served with high-level security clearances in five administrations, “There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be [...]
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