The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cory Doctorow, fighting for public access to digital information at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) conference in Geneva, tells a wild story today via the EFF's blog "Deep Links."
It seems credentialed advocates of the proposed Broadcast Treaty (which Doctorow says would have the power to "lock up" the public digital domain worldwide) may have had a hand in "disappearing" printed material by EFF and other NGOs into toilets at the conference site.
I highly recommend reading (and grasping) Doctorow's recounting of events at this link, and keeping EFF (and others so engaged) in mind as our frontliners. Can anyone doubt the current power holders are burning both ends to curtail our freedom of speech? They gain nothing from the dissemination of information, which is the moral of the tale that follows.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/002117.php