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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Time Warner Cable, the geniuses who can’t help but rip off their customers, is at it again. Several small towns across the country are taking matters into their own hands and creating a utility broadband system for their residents. This, being a community-owned utility, offers high capacity for low price – who could have a [...]

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The fight for a voice at the table by anyone not already an IP rights-holder is heating up. Already, the Obama administration is filled with RIAA and BSA industry oriented officials, and few if any from consumer, education, or hardware oriented backgrounds. An April 2nd letter sent to the President requests a more diverse group [...]

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Wikileaks represents the complete freedom of information. Many governments around the world are actively censoring Wikileaks, including more and more “free” and “democratic” governments. This censorship must not be allowed to become the norm and create a real 1984 Big Brother society online. This is possibly the most inportant fight for intellectual freedom ever, and [...]

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Copyright has absolutely nothing to do with any national security threats, and to suggest that it does undermines real national security issues as well as any faith in fair and open government. The Obama administration has continued the Bush administration policy of holding information regarding ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a trade treaty, outside of [...]

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It looks like Comcast and AT&T are the first ISPs to fall to the coercive RIAA. The RIAA has finally realized that suing thousands of their customers is bad for business, and has decided to change their tactics. They now want to pay ISPs to be the cops of the internet, taking people offline who [...]

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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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It is refreshing to see academic studies about things “everybody knows.” a new study details the threat to children online from adult predators is roughly equal to the threat that exists in the real world. The same study concluded that online bullying is a substantially larger risk for children online – again, the same as [...]

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According to this New York Times article an unnamed telecommunications company challenged the constitutionality of the warrantless wiretapping program in a secret FISA claim and refused to comply with the order until the court ruled on the constitutional questions. Very few times do I think that telecommunication companies have their customer’s best interest at heart, [...]

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The perversion of justice that was the conviction of teacher Julie Amero has finally been resolved. The resolution is not the full vindication that many have called for, but it is a partial victory for reasonable and measured justice. Two things about this case scare me: 1. The absolute resolution that permeates prosecutors to obtain [...]

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