Author Archives: Timothy B Lee

The Software Freedom Law Center is a public interest law firm that helps free software organizations with legal issues. They’ve got an excellent podcast that dives into detail about the legal issues faced by free software projects. I particularly enjoyed … Continue reading →

So there’s no confusion, I think it’s entirely reasonable for ACORN to look the other way if an adult prostitute comes looking for help obtaining housing. But assisting child prostitution is a different story. In latest ACORN video, from San … Continue reading →

Over at Cato’s blog, I follow up on my Monday post on the Google Book Search deal. If you’ll forgive me for quoting myself, my bottom-line point is that the class action mechanism is the wrong way to deal with … Continue reading →

Reader Rhayader points to the recent ACORN prostitution scandal as an example of investigative journalism being done by people who are not journalists in the traditional sense. The guy who made the video is James O’Keefe, an “activist filmmaker” who … Continue reading →

Berin Szoka links to this article by Brad Feld promoting Paul Graham’s idea for a founder’s visa. Under this proposal, there’d be a special route for immigrating to the United States for foreigners who found startup firms. Berin makes the … Continue reading →

Over at Cato’s blog, I make the case against the impending Google Book Search Deal.

Brian Moore has been doing a fantastic job over at my previous blog, and his latest post on the doctor shortage is particularly good. Brian and I are both married to doctors who are currently suffering through residency, so we … Continue reading →

I haven’t been able to take anything Thomas Friedman writes seriously since reading Matt Taibbi devastating takedown of his 2005 book, The World is Flat. As Taibbi puts it, “Friedman is such a genius of literary incompetence that even his … Continue reading →

One of the reasons I think EFF made a mistake in endorsing new privacy regulations is that I think there’s a huge gap between the sensible-sounding rhetoric of privacy legislation propposals and the details of what’s actually being proposed. The … Continue reading →

Over at my previous blogging home, Adam Marcus has a good post enumerating some of the advantages of behavioral advertising: The problem is that, even if online video services can sell ad time for 3 times as much as broadcasters, … Continue reading →