Open Letter to SF Supervisor Sophie Maxwell
4/04/2005
In response to this story:
Dear Sophie Maxwell:
'Blogging' is an activity, much like reading, writing, sleeping. Technology has been designed to make it easier for people to blog. Much of it is open source.
No single person, government, nobody owns the rights to 'blogging.' It is an activity, like reading or writing or shopping or sleeping. The desire to regulate it can only be born out of a desire for complete control over the individual's freedom of expression. And this is antithetical to everything our Constitution stands for.
If this is just a ploy to get the idea 'out in the open,' it's a dangerous one at that. Please stop this embarrasing behavior. To say it's unamerican would be an understatement.
Your name, Sophie, is derived from Sophia, a greek word meaning 'wisdom.' Please consider the wise choice, maintain integrity and drop this nonsense.
Sincerely,
Ed Svengali
Concerned Citizen, Oklahoma
posted by Edward Svengali @ Monday, April 04, 2005,
