steve schultze
intro’d to Steve via aaron swartz – internet’s own boy
open library ness
29 min – what got Aaron into so much trouble – how to bring public access to the public domain – like having a national park with a moat around it – Brewster Kahle
30 min – Stephen Shultze – finds pacer (access to legal documents in the us is a 10 billion/year business – abomination of public services – brain dead code – policy/roadblocks to the hilt – it’s a poll tax to the access to justice) – and Carl Malamud (public resource)- pacer alone makes 120 mill a year – which is illegal – only supposed to take in what is needed to maintain/reimburse costs to run it
Tim O’reilly – the law is the operating system of our democracy – and you have to pay to see it?
32 min – this is something that has to be a collaboration between a lot of people
e govt act – showing that pacer is illegal.. so pacer puts up 17 libraries for free access… so Malamud starts this thumb drive revolution.. as a joke – link went to oz video.. but Aaron wants to join the thumb drive core – intervention on the pacer problem – Shulze shows Swarz the code – and Aaron improves on it – which then works exponentially well
34 min – Malamud – i agree that 20 million pages of text exceeds the vision of the 17 trial libraries open – via pacer – but surprising a bureaucrat isn’t illegal...
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find/follow Steve:
I work on global internet freedom at the State Department. Formerly of
@princetoncitp,@berkmancenter,@cms_mit. I tweet about tech policy and electronic music.
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/right-know-pacer-mess-and-how-clean-it
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Steve Schultze (@sjschultze) tweeted at 6:50 AM – 1 Mar 2018 :
This was a FOIA to the DOJ I did a while back. They didn’t give me anything and I decided not to sue. It was mostly a fun exercise in pointing out that the DOJ wasn’t following its own FOIA guidance.
https://t.co/Lpx6MSHQuk https://t.co/gU0vRzUJpb (http://twitter.com/sjschultze/status/969208326474158080?s=17)
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be you. 