[IP] A PAC for geeks...
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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 29, 2004 7:05:21 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: A PAC for geeks...
Reply-To: joehall@xxxxxxxxx
http://news.com.com/Geeks+form+political+action+committee/2100-1025_3
-5388708.html
Geeks now have a political action committee of their own.
Three technology activists, including a Google product manager and an
organizer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have formed a
political action committee that aims to help pro-technology
politicians and defeat the ones who want to expand copyright law.
Called IPac, the group is already planning to help out Democrat Brad
Carson, who's in a tough race for the U.S. Senate in Oklahoma.
"Our main target is going to be the 2006 election, but during this
election cycle, a few good opportunities came up," said IPac's Ren
Bucholz, who manages EFF's grassroots activism network. In the last
few years, Congress has been increasingly active on
intellectual-property topics and is currently considering
controversial bills to target file-trading users and products that
could "induce" someone to violate copyright law.
[...]
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
UC Berkeley, SIMS PhD Student
http://pobox.com/~joehall/
blog: http://pobox.com/~joehall/nqb2/
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