I think so, Brain … but has the Internet benefited Psychiatry by providing information about it or creating a greater need for it?
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Bad First Amendment News
TechDirt reports that a state court judge in Rhode Island has issued a restraining order requiring a Massachusetts blogger to take down allegedly defamatory posts. The order was issued without a hearing, creating due process issues in addition to being clearly at odds with the First Amendment.
There’s more about the case over at The Volokh Conspiracy where Eugene Volokh points out that the First Circuit Court of Appeals (Rhode Island in in the First Circuit) has ruled that even permanent anti-libel injunctions barring the repetition of statements found to be libelous at trial are unconstitutional.
The ACLU is representing the blogger and has removed the case to federal court.
Stay tuned.
One Year Ago Today, …
… the FCC finally pulled the plug on Net Neutrality. I seem to remember that this was one of the things that was supposed to kill us or at least raise the price of sending an email to a dime.
I don’t appear to be dead yet.
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Zort! Brain … the truth is out there, but I can’t find the URL.
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I think so, Brain … I’m beginning to wonder if one of the elementary particles of the Internet is the moron.
Obama v. Gore
Wow! Team Obama is truly desperate! He’s even going after Al Gore:
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
Oh, and, Mr. President, I have a small business of which I am the sole employee. Could you tell me who else participated in building it?
UPDATE–A friend from my days in Nashville commented on Facebook:
I have a few amazing personal encounter Gore stories and all explain why his home state could not give him the electoral votes to win the office of POTUS.