Posts tagged “law and policy”

Although I am well-known for my self-effacing and humble nature (ahem) I feel it necessary to point...Jan 20, 2003

I predicted the Economist's position on Britain's child pornography laws before they published it. Smug? Maybe. But the issue matters: criminalizing computer-generated images punishes thought, not action, and statistics suggesting pornography availability correlates with declining abuse rates raise questions worth taking seriously.

An interesting article on Reason (as always) asking why is polygamy illegal? True, it's kind of an...May 29, 2001

Polygamy between consenting adults seems no different than gay marriage to me, so why is it illegal? Also, Microsoft's 64-bit Windows won't threaten UNIX on high-end servers: it's a first version, it's buggy, and "high-end server" plus "security" just doesn't equal Windows.