Transparency requirements (and, as others have mentioned, internal government spying operations) mean life gets a lot harder for them if they have and use e-mail.
Joseph Stiglitz is otherwise anathema for the pretty damned libertarian political positions I see around these parts; but on this one matter, he fits the stopped clock.
This is 100% a direct result of the "living Constitution" promoted by every administration since FDR, based on the idea that statutory change overrides the plain meaning of the Constitution.
Silicon Valley has created some of the most effective con men of our age, and so it is no surprise that someone like a Pallotta would arise and adopt their language and tenor. He takes every bad impulse of large charities -- high overhead, large staffs, and mission creep -- and turns them, somehow, from vices into virtues. But the approach he advocates in his TED talk would be utterly indistinguishable from that employed by the Humane Society of the United States and dozens of other money mills purporting to operate as charities, but which in fact are frauds perpetrated upon a gullible public.
Moglen's speech would have made just as much sense and have been better had he left out the "austerity" part. He never bothered to show that there was such, else why the NSA data center in the Utah desert?
While we're talking about suppression of free speech: no free speech for you, corporations. Funny, last I checked, the New York Times, the ACLU, Google, all major ISPs, are all corporations. The "free speech" he claims to protect would cease to exist.
Unfortunately, only a handful of states have laws against barratry, and the offense goes almost unprosecuted; the federal government knows no such restrictions. Too bad, because cases like this one are an obvious application.
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Playing coy
Transparency requirements (and, as others have mentioned, internal government spying operations) mean life gets a lot harder for them if they have and use e-mail.
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Stiglitz
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How do you like your living constitution?
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Dan Pallotta, Scam Artist
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The government agrees
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The bogusness of "austerity"
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Did anybody see the Bernie Sanders amendment?
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