If a man overhears two women at the local coffee house advocating some point of view he doesn’t like and he then announces out loud that he hopes someone rapes and kills them, the management will toss him out on the street. In such a scenario, patrons will applaud the ejection, and nobody in his right mind will suggest that ...
I feel a little bit bad picking on Washington Post tech writer Caitlin Dewey as much as I have already, but it’s probably not as much as I would if I read her column with any purposeful frequency. Unfortunately, given the subjects I write about, people like to send me links to her articles. And I read them. And then ...
Last December, a few glasses of Rioja and I wrote a pretty grumpy rebuttal to Washington Post tech writer Caitlin Dewey, accusing her of cheerleading for media piracy. A few respondents, including Dewey herself, said that I was unfair, that her article about The Pirate Bay was merely reporting facts without editorial. Of course, with certain styles of communication, it ...
Dear Caitlin Dewey: I have read some really dumb, cloying, and earnestly written ideological gibberish in the past three years, but you have reset the bar with your recent love letter to online piracy. To be clear, I am confident that piracy itself is a serious problem for both culture and the economy, but this particular disease is nothing compared ...
