The Bangus Ultimatum

So now that I got a status page, a “further afield”-like section and a photo in the about page, I can finally say that I’m done with the redesign. Wordpress is truly a gift to the world and a pleasure to work with (I think I’m falling for it.) I hope the new code will make the site look and work better for the 4 or 5 people who still read it

Got this from Pinoy Tech Blog - Netopia is lobbying for Internet Censorship in RP. I’m wondering what Netopia doing fiddling around with legislative lobbying. What’s their angle on this?

This is something that has to be nipped in the bud. I’m talking extreme sanction.

1. discuss and blog about why this is a Bad Idea.
2. do our own lobbying. letters would have to be written and sent, media contacts would have to be called.
3. a grassroots campaign - buttons on web sites, forwarded emails and text messages, pamphlets for actual internet cafe users.

Anyone out there as blog hopping mad as I am?

Excerpts from posts and comments I wrote in other blogs:

it’s called public choice theory. politics has its own system of costs and benefits, and rational actors who seek to maximize the latter. rent seeking, pork, and bad legislation subsist because the payoffs are big and the costs (impeachment, imprisonment- yeah right) are so paltry

- comment on The right direction is toward systemic changes, Oct. 25 2005

isn’t it possible to be about *both* freedom of speech and of the press and the right to privacy? a conflict of rights, depending from whose end you view it, is involved. following the american stream of thought, the SC has read the constitutional provisions as a hierarchy of rights. to the extent that freedom of speech/press facilitates the discussion of matters of public concern, it trumps privacy. the problem indeed is whether tiongco’s marital arrangements constitute a matter of public concern.

- comment on On the TRO against PCIJ, Nov. 5, 2005