Peter Ludlow Quotes
For those whose real crime is outsmarting the authorities, severe punishment awaits.
In the digital technology era, the personal computer enabled tens of thousands of young people to become highly skillful at computer technology. Some of them tended to disagree with the government or protest areas of society using the technology to learn information of to communicate their ideas to the world. The government authorities did not have many people who were in the same technological class and very frequently authorities with virtually unlimited resources to protect government secrets or government facilities were embarrassed by being outsmarted by usually young people with little or no resources. When the authorities were embarrassed, they tended to arrest the “hacktivists” and charge them with very serious crimes—far greater or trumped up from no crime at all, in order to punish the hacktivists and discourage others.
Peter Ludlow, Philosopher & Ethicist, “Hactivists As Gadflies”, New York Times, April 14, 2013
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In England, the King was above the law. However, impeachment was a tool that could be used against his favorite ministers. In debating the United State Constitution one of the first questions to be determined was whether impeachment could be a tool used against the President or like, England, only the other government officials. Mason argued that the President must be included and his view prevailed. See also Benjamin Franklin: {642885}.
Terror conceptually in France and some other countries was the tool the government used to inhibit criminals.
Peter Ludlow, who also writes under the pseudonym Urizenus Sklar, is an American philosopher of language. He is noted for interdisciplinary work on the interface of linguistics and philosophy—in particular on the philosophical foundations of Noam Chomsky's theory of generative linguistics and on the foundations of the theory of meaning in linguistic semantics. He has worked on the application of analytic philosophy of language to topics in epistemology, metaphysics, and logic, among other areas.
