I certainly appreciate Mr. Doctrow's willingness to help get the word out but in my opinion a presentation at the Chaos Computer Congress is preaching to the choir.
True. OTOH these sorts of events create video by-products that can be distributed to other people (though Boing-boing is likely another choir).
Still, I found it interesting because of how he outlines the possible reasoning for such maneuvers (e.g. screwing with DNS is portrayed in the same light as dropping phone service for the head shop down the block), which can help folks like use when we try to explain to non-geeks why things like SOPA or walled-garden electronics are so bad.
I'm the choir you're talking about, on all of his major points, and I'd never heard the term "cognitive liberty" before this video. I'd like to think I'm well-informed on these topics, too.
These things are beneficial, if only for the same-page-ification that the choir requires from time to time.
True. OTOH these sorts of events create video by-products that can be distributed to other people (though Boing-boing is likely another choir).
Still, I found it interesting because of how he outlines the possible reasoning for such maneuvers (e.g. screwing with DNS is portrayed in the same light as dropping phone service for the head shop down the block), which can help folks like use when we try to explain to non-geeks why things like SOPA or walled-garden electronics are so bad.