I am setting up this blog to address a number of technical and legal issues that, over the long run, can affect the freedom of media newbies like me to speak freely on the Internet and other low-cost media that have developed in the past ten years.
Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
Kialo: a website that sets up a template for "opposing viewpoints" debate
I found a site, Kialo, that aims at promulgating “opposing
viewpoints” about a variety of issues.
It sets up pros and cons for issues and groups the arguments into fitted
subcategories. I signed up for it
through Facebook, and made the following sub-pro argument on “network
neutrality”.
"There is precedence for
regulating large public "facilities" as "utilities": that
is, power and phone companies. It matters whether there is competition. Is
website access a "utility"? True, over time the Internet could be
balkanized as websites convert to favored "apps" (as in mobile world
now). ISP's must be expected to leave normal http(s) access to lawful websites
alone."
Some of the debate topics are challenging or point
toward some real confrontations in the culture wars/. For example, should all confederate statues
be removed from public spaces, or should gender-specific bathrooms be
eliminated.
I had proposed developing such a scheme myself (see Feb. 29, 2012). I had particularly thought about it in the mid
2000’s, before Facebook and Twitter blossomed.
Update: Dec 26 The "claim" was deleted. Apparently it was not a clear pro or con statement (it is in the middle between the two) that could fit into their debate stream. I'll have to figure out what they consider acceptable claims.
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