Statist Problems

• Digital Television and Copy Protection: Government Mandated Technology is a Bad Idea
  Protecting intellectual property and recovering unused spectrum are two important goals, but government technology mandates are not the way to achieve them. - Sonia Arrison, December 15, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]

• $24 million retirement home for chimpanzees shows need for separation of science and state, Libertarians say
  Unfortunately, the government’s impulse to monkey around with tax money isn’t limited to studying primates. - released October 10, 2002 [LP Press Release]

• The Napster Question
  The federal government, through legislation (allowing 'sharing' in the 1992 Audio Home Recording Act) and antitrust (demanding Microsoft Windows become open source) has done more to undermine copyrights than Napster and its users ever dreamed." - October 30, 2000 [Mises]

• FCC Head Takes His Agency to Task
  In a candid discussion with telecom industry members and students at University of California-Berkeley's Haas School of Business, a Federal Communications Commissioner admitted the burgeoning Internet economy has raised 'fundamental questions' about how to enforce current telecom regulations -- to which the FCC has no answer. - October 23, 2000 [Wired]

• Beware of governments improving software
  Even if every charge of meanness, predatory practices, and manipulation against Microsoft were true, that wouldn't endow politicians with the ability to know what you need." - Harry Browne, June 12, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]

Libertarian Solutions

• The Privatization of Space Exploration

• Cloning is a Pro-Life Technology
  Any attempt to ban human cloning technology should be rejected permanently, because cloning-- therapeutic and reproductive--is morally good. - Alex Epstein, November 11, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Down With Junkets!
  Perhaps the newest innovations can actually be used to enhance liberty. Shut down DC and every other capital city in the world. Close every embassy. Never again should those who work for the State be permitted to meet physically. Let them use the web. And let us listen in." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., June 22, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Libertarian Party finds a haven in high tech
  The party, which is seeing its biggest vote totals ever in Washington state and the nation this year, has found a sympathetic ear in the hallways and cubicles of the country's high-tech companies. - October 14, 2000 [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

• Lessons from Your Fax Machine
  Today, for a few hundred bucks, you can get a neat little box that sits on the corner of your desk and lets you receive messages from almost anyone in the developed world. - Karen Selick, July 1996 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]