On valuing freedom more than cushy jail cells
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The problem isn't just silos and walled gardens &#151; our names for choiceless dependency on one company's goods and services. The problem is the defaulted belief system that gives us silos and walled gardens in the first place.  In that system suppliers believe that the best customers and users are captive ones. Customers and users believe that a free market naturally restricts choices to silos. It's a value sytem in which VCs like to ask &quot;What's your lock-in?&quot;. Even in 2007, long after the Net has become established as an everyday necessity, we still take for granted the assumption that living in a &quot;free market&quot; is to choose among jail cells. May the best prison win.
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Sometimes the people breaking the rules aren't your typical Rule Breakers.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles.
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We all want to know about the hotel heiressâs time in jail. The question is whether news organizations should give her money to tell us. A media-ethics expert weighs in.
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Congress debates the merits as states stake out their own rights.
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A former Australian prisoner liked his jail cell so much he has decided to buy it.
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By Randy Myers, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 15--Good deeds hold more value than fat wallets in the tight weave of the Friendly Favors Web community.
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At the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, slavery's evil becomes palpable; so does a sense of progressive enlightenment.
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A philosopher makes a case for setting limits on self-improvement, genetic and otherwise.
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In Iraq, where the kidnapping of foreign nationals has become more and more frequent, several recent examples indicate that governments are willing to pay up or offer political concessions to secure the release ...
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Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly ...
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Americans are torn by debate these   days in Washington over how to treat terrorism suspects. They   feel the United States should set a good example and not   torture. But what if it will save lives?
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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Election-year tactics like making anonymous phone calls or inventing make-believe groups to criticize the opponent now come with a higher price: the possibility of time in jail.
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Business & money: Former Telegraph owner says his faith is providing comfort - although he seems to acknowledge he may be destined for prison.
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The debate over an additional death row in San Quentin, Calif., focuses on real estate prices and views, not on the fact that the prisoners essentially serve life sentences.
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It offers more than you might have thought.