Nashville, my previous city of residence (briefly), is totally hating on white spaces.

It’s been a couple weeks…but the Friday Roundup is back. Ready?

• Wired: The right-wing hater machine gunning for Obama Larry Lessig? [Also at AT] Why won’t they just let Jesus be fabulous?
  
• LAist: Headline I’ve been waiting my whole life to read - Justine Bateman, ‘Drunk College Students’ Team Up to Save the Internet.
• So, this exists: Committee to Protect Bloggers.
• Ars Technica: Canada is not immune!
• Edge (Boston): Landmark Canadian gay bookstore going up for sale.
• BusinessWeek: Does she look like a music pirate? [via]
• Save The Internet: “Piracy” = smoke screen.

And additionally, out of my own excitement, Michael Zimmer is joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies, where I am currently a graduate student. He had some pretty rad things to say about it…

Happy Weekending!

Ars Technica: FCC hearing used for finger-pointing on 700MHz auction, D block.

Ars Technica: Open Source Decade: 10 years after the Open Source Summit.

The sun is shining. Readership is up. Spring is (tentatively) here. It’s a good day at sd&if. So, let’s recap the week, yes?

• Bloomberg: China, the Olympics, human rights, and…LeBron James. The article gives a brief, but pretty solid, overview of the many ethical challenges facing athletes, companies, and countries going into this summer’s games.
• Variety: Iran goes on censorship blitz.
• WP: Net Neutrality’s Quiet Crusader. SPOILER: It’s Ben Scott of Free Press.
• Gizmodo: Comcast n’ BitTorrent BFFs! Hilarious.
• ArsTechnica: Gotta solve that TCP congestion, dudes.
• Daily Star, Lebanon: Persepolis unbanned.
• Sun-Sentinel: Generacion Y, one of Cuba’s most popular blogs, being blocked by Cuban government.
• Boston Globe: On the privatization of libraries. Which, also, makes me want to crawl out of my own skin. Not the article, but the issue.

That about wraps it up for me this week. Ben will have With Us / Against Us done sometime between now and…well, all bets are off, folks. And, what the hell, go Wisconsin! And that’s something this Gopher grad never thought he’d say.

Happy Weekending!

UPDATE: So much for Wisconsin. I guess I’ll go back to being a Gopher fan. Which should make Ben happy.

PC World: Google board opposes Net censorship ban, human rights review.

From the article:

At its annual meeting May 8, the board will recommend that shareholders vote against a proposal that would require the company to take steps to ensure freedom of access to the Internet. It also will advise a vote against a proposal calling for the company to form a committee to review its policies on human rights. The board, in the statement, did not give reasons for its positions.

And there you have it.

Municipal Wi-Fi might just work after all! Way to go Minneapolis!

NY Times: Domain names censored under US Treasury Watch List.

We think about net neutrality in terms of telecommunications companies and bandwidth and connection speeds, etc…

But what about the government, through the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), censoring domain names to prevent access to certain materials? It is happening, and on no uncertain terms.

I wonder what sd&if needs to do to land on that list…

Arbitrator rules against EPA library closures.