A great interview by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman of Gilberto Gil....

So it has been a fantastic week watching my new member of Congress, Jackie Speier, do her work. The first was her strong opposition to local moth spraying. "[T]he USDA has the wrong approach," said Speier. "It's spray and ask questions later, and we can't allow them to do that." Exactly right. Then she voted against the FISA compromise. (You know my view about that.) And now she's joined with a GOP...

As with many of my friends, the last couple weeks have brought decisions I would wish went the other way. Whether or not Obama can raise all the money he needs from small contributions, candidates for the House and Senate can?t. So I am worried about a decision that makes public funding for them less likely. I understand it. But I worry about it. Likewise, with the FISA compromise. Or at least, lik...

Zittrain was on The Colbert Report....

I've gotten lots of email and comments about my criticism of privacy-revealing behavior related to Chief Judge Kozinski. After reading that criticism, I am more convinced. Privacy is not determined by technology: The core point that's important to me here is to reject the sense many have that "privacy" is that stuff you can't get access to technically. So something's private if encrypted, but if th...