Thin Edge of the Wedge Time! EFF discovers secret meeting in Dallas Hmmm, I sort of feel like I’m on the National Enquirer‘s front page… Seriously, those of us who use the Internet and enjoy its free-wheelin’ nature need to pay attention when someone like the Electronic Frontier Foundation gets worried. I can just imagine that the government is just going nuts at an entire “dimension” not under their control. “Rules are needed!” “It’s a lawless frontier!” Then there are the corporations who would just love to find a way to charge us for each time we access the Internet or for every email we send to every person on each email. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I sound like a conspiracy theorist, don’t I? * snicker * Seriously, There are busybodies in government just dyin’ to jam us up with laws and rules and you know how people get about money, so…getting back to the EFF concern… The Electronic Frontier Foundation learned about a secret meeting in Dallas between trade reps that could affect online speech and create new, international standards for intellectual property enforcement. Worst of all, Internet users and free expression advocates like EFF aren’t allowed in the room […]