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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 04:01 PM
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Lessig - Google - fabulous - lip - syncing - Jesusgate
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080424-lessig-obama-and-the-fabulous-singing-jesus.html">Lessig, Google, Obama, and Jesus: a net neutrality mash-up

All through the primary season, media and political pundits have enjoyed playing Six Degrees of Indignation with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. But the editor of the conservative Web site RedState may have come up with the most tech-headline-friendly pseudo-scandal yet: Lessig-Google-fabulous-lip-syncing-Jesusgate. The site, which is a conservative stalwart that regularly features guest posts from Republican Senators, is urging its supporters to phone the Senate Commerce Committee, where Google is currently advocating network neutrality legislation, and "tell the committee it is abhorrent to have Larry Lessig parroting Google's call for open networks while Google censors and denigrates Christians."

Open networks? Christians? Google? Censorship? Would you believe, it's because of a mash-up?

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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080424-lessig-obama-and-the-fabulous-singing-jesus.html">more


With a title like that, I had to share it.

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