Comments on: Cablegate: Luis Tascón Accused of Being “Instrument of the (U.S.) Empire” Having Spent a Month “in the Offices of Bill Gates” (Updated) http://techrights.org/2011/09/15/tascon-expelled/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2011/09/15/tascon-expelled/comment-page-1/#comment-130335 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:09:13 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=53555#comment-130335 http://www.sjgames.com/illuminati/govt_official.html

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2011/09/15/tascon-expelled/comment-page-1/#comment-130333 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:01:47 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=53555#comment-130333 Free market radicalism. Milton Friedman must be smiling in his grave.

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2011/09/15/tascon-expelled/comment-page-1/#comment-130332 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:59:15 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=53555#comment-130332 That’s going to get several levels nastier in the next major election in 2012 because corporations are now allowed to directly finance campaigns.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122805666

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2011/09/15/tascon-expelled/comment-page-1/#comment-130330 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:50:40 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=53555#comment-130330 But many US companies (e.g. SMBs) do not fund election campaigns. The question is, whose interests does this government serve? Multinationals’? SMBs’? People’s?

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2011/09/15/tascon-expelled/comment-page-1/#comment-130327 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:20:09 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=53555#comment-130327 It’s wrong to conflate the interests of the US and those of Microsoft. They are orthogonal more often than not. Every move to boost M$ hurts dozens of US interests, from citizens to medium sized companies to government agencies.

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