Another friend of mine is taking down all his pages, after being sued (or more precisely: threatened with a cease-and-desists order) for having had (back in 2004) a small map excerpt for a meeting of a NPO.

Less and less people dare to put up webpages, for various reasons. The threat of lawsuits is a popular reason, the other is that someone (read a would-be boss) might google for them and find something he doesn’t like.

It sucks that lawyers and MBAs are ruining the web that we’re so used to.

“Information society” will never happen. It will have become a “lawyers society” before that. And less and less information will be free. Especially accurate information (no, I’m not only referring to the white house “there are good leaks and bad leaks”).