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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Quotation
As supervisor of a media empire that is best known at present for hacking into people’s personal phone accounts, this is not someone you want arguing for more government involvement in the lives of the public.
Rogan Kersh, associate dean at New York University’s Wagner School, suggesting that Rupert Murdoch’s recent tirade against Google and Twitter over SOPA and PIPA did his cause more harm than good.