Lit Reveiw 2: Hacking Politics

Edited by:

• David Moon: A programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on the Lisp programming language and being one of the founders of Symbolics.
• Patrick Ruffini: a Republican Party political strategist and blogger in the United States. He is a founding partner and Chairman of Engage, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based political media firm, and now runs the political research and intelligence firm, Echelon Insights

David Segal: An American politician, activist, and writer who was a Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.


What: Hacking Politics: TLDR. The portion in the book lasts 37 pages long.

Where: http://hfoss-fossrit.rhcloud.com/static/books/hackingpolitics_txtwithcvfb.pdf

When: Published in May of 2013.

The Gist: The TLDR of the book is a series collection of quotes from various hackers and politicans who are also associated with againsting SOPA, PIPA and COICA.

The Good:

• Simple and straight forward with a huge list of quotes.
• The topic in the book is actually closer to each one of us than we thought - found it extremely realistic.
• The collection of quotes are from all kinds of people from games, hackers all the way to politicians and billionaries.

The Bad:

• Extremely informative but somewhat boring on the other hand with the set of quotes.
• I nearly see any citations - maybe quotes don't need citations.
• A bit overwhelmed with the tremendous amount of voices.
• Somewhat one sided: with the amount of people quoted, the side that these people take is however generally the same.

Questions:

• What is now the outcome for SOPA/PIPA and COICA?

Review: Overall the article was good. Good thing that I figured that TLDR stands for "Too Long, Didn't Read"... Even though I'm not loving the TLDR format with a list of quotes, but it is enough to pull me into researching SOPA/PIPA. 7/10 things.