Christopher Leger

International trade agreements rarely make front page news, and even then only when the agreements are signed, binding the signatory countries to them. Because of this, the standard practice for negotiating these trade agreements is extraordinarily opaque due to press disinterest and the lack of the same open-government laws that many nations have regulating how [...]

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Just like the debacle with the Scorpion’s album cover on Wikipedia, a controversial image has made the entire Internet archive unavailable to the UK. The heavy handed approach that the UK appears to be becoming more and more comfortable using is looking more and more like the great Chinese firewall, with zero regard for personal [...]

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I was reading a discussion (registration required) on the Washington Post today, and it brought to light the seriousness of net neutrality.  Time Warner Cable is experimenting with a pay-per-use model of internet access. My first impression was mostly favorable, mostly based upon the idea that a new pricing model may open up the woeful [...]

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