Random Net-wandering is a truly amazing thing.
I picked this one up from a progressive blog--Future Majority--which has tipped onto the story from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that the Federal government is now moving to tie funding for student loans at colleges and universities to a requirement that those same universities
Now if we could just get them to realize that it's the same form of blackmail when the Federal government threatens to cut off highway funds to states that don't arbitrarily lower blood alcohol standards or make non-use of seat belts a primary offense.
If the behavior is unethical in one context...?
I picked this one up from a progressive blog--Future Majority--which has tipped onto the story from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that the Federal government is now moving to tie funding for student loans at colleges and universities to a requirement that those same universities
purchase ... DRM-based industry-sanctioned download services and deployment of network snoopware that spies on and disconnects college kids if they appear to be violating copyright (without any hard evidence or a chance for the student to present her side of the story).
Now if we could just get them to realize that it's the same form of blackmail when the Federal government threatens to cut off highway funds to states that don't arbitrarily lower blood alcohol standards or make non-use of seat belts a primary offense.
If the behavior is unethical in one context...?
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