“Basically, we need some serious reform,” [Jimmy] Wales told me. “Everything should be on the table. But it’s not a war; it’s a giant public policy question.”
Ah, Jimmy, Jimmy, there’s the rub. These days in Washington, everything is a war. This is a complicated subject that has been turned into simplistic sloganeering by rival vested interests dressed up as the saviors of freedom.
— A meditation on the aftermath of SOPA and copyright alternatives like OPEN from former New York Times editor in chief Bill Keller, who cites Robert Levine’s Free Ride as “a wonderfully clear-eyed account of this colossal struggle over the future of our cultural lives.” (via curiositycounts)
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