{"id":2428,"date":"2003-05-22T03:16:50","date_gmt":"2003-05-22T10:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/05\/latent-fascism\/"},"modified":"2003-05-22T03:16:50","modified_gmt":"2003-05-22T10:16:50","slug":"latent-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/22\/latent-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Latent fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Lawrence Lessig\" href=\"http:\/\/cyberlaw.stanford.edu\/lessig\/blog\/archives\/2003_05.shtml#001195\">Lawrence Lessig<\/a> deleted a comment I left on his blog about this phony claim of his: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRemember, we had to increase our term to harmonize with the rest of the world; now the administration is pushing the rest of the world to increase its term to harmonize with us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The comment: <i>You can&#8217;t be that ignorant. The US extended the term of copyright to harmonize with the EU, and now we seek to bring other nations, such as Singapore, into compliance. <\/p>\n<p>When I lived in Singapore in the mid-80s, their copyright law didn&#8217;t protect the works of non-Singaporeans. It was possible to buy all the popular software of the day (Lotus 1-2-3, MS-DOS, Microsoft C, dBase) for the price of a floppy, and photocopied manuals were available for a minimal charge. Pirated audio and videotapes were also available for next to nothing, complete with fake liners. It was a Napster-lover&#8217;s dream.<\/p>\n<p>I think you would have liked it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes, the folks who scream the loudest about commercial interests trampling their free speech don&#8217;t respect the concept when it applies to those with whom they disagree. Lessig proved himself to be one such person. Of course, the boy has no obligation to let me disagree with him on his blog, but if he wants to be taken seriously as a First Amendment champion he should at least try and confine his rants to the general neighborhood of the facts.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Lessig claims he didn&#8217;t delete my comment, so I&#8217;ve reposted it to see if it sticks. He also posts, in my comments, some misdirection on CTEA and the EU.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Lessig deleted a comment I left on his blog about this phony claim of his: Remember, we had to increase our term to harmonize with the rest of the world; now the administration is pushing the rest of the world to increase its term to harmonize with us. The comment: You can&#8217;t be that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/22\/latent-fascism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latent fascism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Da","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}