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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:33:47 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Virginia Postrel <vpostrel () dynamist com> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 12:29:28 -0600 To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: "Free Speech Under Attack" Free Speech Under Attack By Glenn Harlan Reynold When Bjorn Lomborg wrote his book The Skeptical Environmentalist, I imagine that he expected to be criticized; one doesn't accuse an entrenched establishment of fraud without encountering some blowback. So when a critical issue of Scientific American came out, accusing Lomborg of not knowing what he was talking about, Lomborg didn't get mad: he simply posted the article, along with a detailed response, on his website. What happened next, however, may have come as a surprise: Scientific American sent him a letter threatening to sue him if he didn't remove the critical article that he was responding to. With the air of bemused politeness that has marked Lomborg's response to his often-overheated critics, Lomborg took the article down. Lomborg's situation, however, serves to underscore a new and unwholesome trend: the use of copyright law to silence critics. more http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/envirowrapper.jsp?PID=1051-450&CID=10 51-030602B -- Virginia Postrel (vpostrel () dynamist com) Author, The Future and Its Enemies "Economic Scene" columnist, The New York Times Contributing editor and "Spaces" columnist, D Magazine http://www.dynamist.com | http://vpostrel.com (The Scene) (214) 219-5725 | (214) 219-1188 (fax) -- Read about my book-in-progress at http://www.dynamist.com/lookandfeel.html ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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