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	<title>Jeremy Costin&#039;s weblawg.net &#187; Civil Liberties</title>
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		<title>Research in Motion&#8217;s Opportunity to Promulgate Freedom</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/communications/research-in-motions-opportunity-to-promulgate-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blackberry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several countries, none of which is a finalist in the Freedom to the People sweepstakes, are considering blackballing the BlackBerry for being too secure... The better route for BlackBerry is to work with these governments to reshape their privacy policies in favour of citizen rights. <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/communications/research-in-motions-opportunity-to-promulgate-freedom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Library Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/library-manifesto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyfight]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[the risk of common cultural property becoming the puppet, through digital means, of copyright holders rather than the protectorate of library gatekeepers <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/library-manifesto/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Liberal Arts in a Recession</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/humanities/the-value-of-liberal-arts-in-a-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/humanities/the-value-of-liberal-arts-in-a-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aristotle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sarah brophy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently published an article, "In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth."  The division between science and the humanities is a recent contrivance, and its maintenance has no good historical precedent.  The humanist training, the whetting of mental faculties that not only separate us from the animals but allow us to weigh and manage the fruit and potential fruit of our technical wizardry, is as essential to a growing society as the freedom that makes it possible.   <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/humanities/the-value-of-liberal-arts-in-a-recession/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Stallman came to Vancouver, and I upset him</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/richard-stallman-came-to-vancouver-and-i-upset-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[copyfight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyleft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FSF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GNU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GPL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Stallman was in Vancouver two weeks ago.  He performed, if I may describe his lectures like that, three times; I caught the first.  I asked Stallman a question after it was over, and thoroughly annoyed him.  I know that I annoyed him because he grew flustered, stamped his feet, turned away from me to the rest of the crowd and yelled at me. <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/richard-stallman-came-to-vancouver-and-i-upset-him/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>EU suggests reason and logic behind ACTA</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/eu-suggests-reason-and-logic-behind-acta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ACTA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the EU, ACTA will ignore "infringing goods [that] are not part of large scale traffic."  ACTA will also not force already taxed enforcement officers "to look for a couple of pirated songs on an i-Pod music player..." <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/eu-suggests-reason-and-logic-behind-acta/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Lifshitz is asking for your support</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/notices-from-nimda/michael-lifshitz-is-asking-for-your-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lifshitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Lifshitz is a friend of mine from many years ago.  He is a chartered accountant, financial advisor, and holder of an MBA.  He is also a stand-up comic.  Michael has a physical disability and has run into an issue with the Quebec government witholding further adaptive assistance, even though the current problem is likely due to a restriction they themselves have imposed.  Michael is asking for support with a petition, and I've given him some well-deserved soapbox space here. <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/notices-from-nimda/michael-lifshitz-is-asking-for-your-support/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria venue to infringe civil liberties</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/victoria-venue-to-infringe-civil-liberties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Explorations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cigarette Possession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Save-On Foods Memorial Centre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Save-On Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria wants to take B.C.'s anti-smoking legislation a bit further.  Not only will they enforce the existing No Smoking laws, they will also prohibit the innocuous carrying of cigarettes by patrons on the premises.
Possession of cigarettes is neither illegal nor dangerous per se.  Searching explicitly for cigarettes, without the pretence (which I assume will be assumed) of searching for illegal or dangerous goods, is trespass to the person, bordering on the tort of assault.  Confiscating those cigarettes is conversion; the Save-On Foods Memorial Centre is counting on your complacency and acquiescence as it invades your space and takes what it rightfully yours.  Are they going to compensate you for the cigarettes?  Return them at your whim?  I doubt it.  This erosion of civil liberties has gone on long enough. <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/victoria-venue-to-infringe-civil-liberties/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>George Carlin, free speech advocate, gone at 71</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/humanities/george-carlin-free-speech-advocate-gone-at-71/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Speech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to my father-in-law on Sunday morning about which show George Carlin ws likely to bring to his upcoming night at the River Rock.  Would it be the silly and hilarious poke at absurdity that generates his funniest &#8230; <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/humanities/george-carlin-free-speech-advocate-gone-at-71/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Servamus &#8211; Fearing the Image of the Vancouver Police</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/servamus-fearing-the-image-of-the-vancouver-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drivers - non-criminal citizens from whom the police derive their power - are having their fear of being ticketed isolated, transformed into a fear of the police, and capitalized upon to drive a policy goal that in and of itself should never pass Section 1 muster.
Could the momentum of enshrining the police vs. citizens paradigm lead to the political annihilation of servamus?  In other words, could the potential transformative effects on society of engendering a public fear of police be out of proportion with traffic safety objectives? <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/legal-explorations/servamus-fearing-the-image-of-the-vancouver-police/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>RIAA and MPAA hijack the border (or someone like them)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 03:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cyberion, at Tazzu, posted a link to the Vancouver Province story on the threatened border checks (ACTA) on the legitimacy of electronic media. (Cyberion&#8217;s post) I had some rather strong feelings, and ranted the following: This is one of the &#8230; <a href="http://weblawg.costinmedia.com/wp/intellectual-property/riaa-and-mpaa-hijack-the-border/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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