Some stuff I support:
- Privacy is a very important natural right. Note, for those in
the US there's no constitutional right to privacy bar what
the Supreme Court has built out of several ammendments.
Computers can be used to infringe upon that right or they
can be used to protect it. Recent news reports on Echelon,
Carnivore, the UK's RIP, New Zealand's recent laws on emails,
nevermind the more obvious situations at corporations and more
intrusive governments should have alerted folks that computers
are definitely being used to infringe on privacy. If we want to
keep that right in the newer forms of communication we're going
to need to work for it. That means pestering officials, but
it also means using computers to protect our privacy. I'm not
suggesting using cypherpunk remailers but I am suggesting using
encryption. If you send me email regularly *please* consider
using encryption from either GNU
Privacy Guard or PGP.
Mail clients like Pine, Mutt,
and Eudora work well with it.
- They want to introduce US style software patents in Europe.
Bad plan.
- I believe in practically anything to change the American
political system. The folks at MoveOn seem keen to point that
in the right direction.
- This page explains the DeCSS
fight and what it means. Essentially if I buy a piece of art I
should be allowed to do with it what I will as long as I don't
copy it. If I want to play it on my Linux box with free (as in
speech, not beer) software then I should be allowed.
- Speaking of free software, I support the Free Software Foundation
and the GNU Project.
I'm also a FreeBSD and OpenBSD fan, but I do think
they're a bit naive on licensing. I won't release code so that
someone can hide it again on me. Also if *you* use linux you
should register and get yourself one of these:

That link will bring you to the Linux Counter
- I hate spam. Happily so do the creators of TMDA.