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America’s Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven’t seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves – Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn’t have been able to forget their former selves.

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An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

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If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it’s a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can’t be any rights of authorship.

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May 2, 2024

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it’s a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can’t be any rights of authorship.

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May 2, 2024

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

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