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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.

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Marx, Engels et al versus free speech

tl;dr: Be extremely wary of anyone who wants to put limits on speech...

Free speech is under heavy attack in the United States, of all places. Sometimes these attacks are explicit, as in the widely ridiculed X post below. More often the attackers claim to be fighting against “misinformation and disinformation”, as though there were some way to know the absolute truth on any topic. The proposed solution is always some form of State-run, Orwellian Ministry of Truth that rules on the truth of any given statement, combined with various censorship mechanisms to prevent the dissemination of what the State declares to be false....

A copy of a post on the X social media platform from a self-proclaimed Marxist which calls free speech an 'unmitigated disaster'


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