Cheap Therapy

“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.” — Commissioner Pravin Lal

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. – Jean Kerr

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Being Poor means sitting on your rooftop while your house is submerged, seeing helicopters rescuing those around you and knowing that you “cannot afford” to be rescued by one. A lady said that in NO two weeks ago, and that made me cry. - blog commenter on John Scalzi’s Being Poor

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power. -Buddha (c. 563-483 BCE)

So, who has the right to control their broadcast content, the National Press Club (press release here)? Either they do, and they had every right to cut off Channel Nine for using the worm (when it seems the agreement the NPC had with the Liberals was that they would not allow feed recipients to use it), or they don’t, in which case the debate is essentially in the public domain. Is the NPC asserting their rights to how the content is used censorship? Or do Channel Nine have the right to remix the content with a worm? How did they pick their worm audience?