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	<div style="display:block; position:relative; margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; width:70%; background:black; padding:20px; color:white;"><div style="display:block; position:relative;border:50px solid white;padding:20px;">"The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship." <span style="display:block; position:relative; z-index:2000;">--]</span></div></div>		<div style="display:block; position:relative; margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; width:70%; background:black; padding:20px; color:white;"><div style="display:block; position:relative;border:50px solid white;padding:20px;">"The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship." <span style="display:block; position:relative; z-index:2000;">--]</span></div></div>

			<span style="display:block; position:relative; left:50px; color:white;">And a very telling description...</span>

			<div style="display:block; position:relative; margin-left:10%; width:70%; margin-right:10%; background:black; padding:20px; color:white;"><div style="display:block; position:relative;border:50px solid white;padding:20px;">"I think it is also worth considering for a moment what "ethics", in the modern sense, actually apply. This course is part of ]'s ''"MA in global affairs. Students in this degree program develop a wide range of global competencies as well as specialized knowledge in a particular thematic concentration—everything from global health, to global media, to global economic development, to global history and culture. Graduates of the master's program are prepared for work in a variety of global contexts, including employment by government agencies, non-governmental organizations, businesses with a global presence, and various international organizations."'' As seems universally agreed in modern society, the purpose of a university is not to train people to ''learn'', but to train people to ''work'', and ''work'' involves not the cultlike pursuit of the Truth, but absolute loyalty to a master, right or wrong, including the ability to competently lie and mislead. Such is never so true as for government agencies working in and around ]. For a professor to accept students' money - backed by taxpayer guarantees on their loans - and produce a person with a religious attachment to the Truth, who is not willing to manipulate, confuse, and destroy a site like Misplaced Pages, let alone the things that he might actually be called upon to do - well, this is just dishonesty; such a professor takes his salary either from defaulted loans or from the basement-dwelling unemployed graduate's parents and is therefore a mere ''parasite'' demeaning the reputation of his institution. Whereas one who finds a snazzy way to show that his students will bend and break ethical boundaries and publicize their work to the world... that is a paragon of virtue. ] (]) 16:34, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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Be critical of the uncritical, of gullibility. Be critical of the imPOV rished critics. Be critical of criticism, of criticism's lack, of selective criticality (used merely to attack). Be critical of everything till criticism comes full circle into knowledge, and into knowledge of fallibility. "Liberation comes in two flavors. First are those who recognize an artificial scarcity and move to eliminate it by creating access to goods. See the MP3 revolutionaries who untethered music from the CD, or the BitTorrent anti-tyrannists who created real video-on-demand." --Wired “The studios, including Universal, are pretty clearly a criminal enterprise, operating an illegal blacklist and functioning as a price-fixing cartel.". --Alex Cox The fight for basic civil liberties and the fight against the copyright monopoly are one and the same. They are not two identical fights; they are one and the same fight." "You cannot guarantee free speech and enforce the copyright monopoly. Therefore, any technology designed to guarantee freedom of speech must also prevent enforcement of the copyright monopoly.". "Today, we exercise our fundamental rights – the right to privacy, the right to expression, the right to correspondence, the right to associate, the right to assemble, the right to a free press, and many other rights – through the Internet. Therefore, anonymous and uncensored access to the Internet has become as fundamental a right itself as all the rights we exercise through it. If this means that a stupid industry that makes thin round pieces of plastic can’t make money anymore, they can go bankrupt..." --Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party

The truthfulness of a truth varies in direct proportion to the directness with which it is communicated. "I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts." --Hans Eysenck "The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship." --Peter Sunde

And a very telling description...

"I think it is also worth considering for a moment what "ethics", in the modern sense, actually apply. This course is part of George Mason University's "MA in global affairs. Students in this degree program develop a wide range of global competencies as well as specialized knowledge in a particular thematic concentration—everything from global health, to global media, to global economic development, to global history and culture. Graduates of the master's program are prepared for work in a variety of global contexts, including employment by government agencies, non-governmental organizations, businesses with a global presence, and various international organizations." As seems universally agreed in modern society, the purpose of a university is not to train people to learn, but to train people to work, and work involves not the cultlike pursuit of the Truth, but absolute loyalty to a master, right or wrong, including the ability to competently lie and mislead. Such is never so true as for government agencies working in and around Arlington, Virginia. For a professor to accept students' money - backed by taxpayer guarantees on their loans - and produce a person with a religious attachment to the Truth, who is not willing to manipulate, confuse, and destroy a site like Misplaced Pages, let alone the things that he might actually be called upon to do - well, this is just dishonesty; such a professor takes his salary either from defaulted loans or from the basement-dwelling unemployed graduate's parents and is therefore a mere parasite demeaning the reputation of his institution. Whereas one who finds a snazzy way to show that his students will bend and break ethical boundaries and publicize their work to the world... that is a paragon of virtue. Wnt (talk) 16:34, 16 May 2012 (UTC) " --User:Wnt

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