http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/4887/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/alec_corporations_funding_legislation_and_intellectual_property <p>I have been reading up on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a legislation powerhouse responsible for laws such as the Voter ID legislation that we are dealing with here in PA. They claim to be proponents of the free market, federalism, and limited government, but this whole group is just really creeping me out. Seems to support of transition of power, rather than a lessening of regulation. And then I saw this article supporting intellectual property rights.</p> <p><a href="http://www.freetalklive.com/content/alec_corporations_funding_legislation_and_intellectual_property" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/alec_corporations_funding_legislation_and_intellectual_property#comments ALEC Corporate power Intellectual Property News Article Voter ID Laws Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:32:41 +0000 Erin Jane 23990 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/apple_rejects_app_reports_us_drone_strikes <p>"It’s the third time in a month that Apple has turned Drones+ away, says Josh Begley, the program’s New York-based developer. The company’s reasons for keeping the program out of the App Store keep shifting. First, Apple called the bare-bones application that aggregates news of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia “not useful.” Then there was an issue with hiding a corporate logo. And now, there’s this crude content problem."</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/apple_rejects_app_reports_us_drone_strikes#comments apple Corporate power drones information Internet Issues