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    Michael Wayne Godwin (born October 26, 1956) is an American attorney and author. He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)...
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    author Mike Godwin in 1990, Godwin's law originally referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions. He stated that he introduced Godwin's law in...
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  • fugitive Mike Godwin (born 1956), American lawyer, created Godwin's law of Internet discussions (mentioning Hitler) Godwin Emefiele, Nigerian banker Godwin Igwebuike...
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    name is from the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Mike Godwin coined the term Internet meme in 1993 when he discussed memes as spreading...
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    position as legal counsel, effective April 1, 2007. He was replaced by Mike Godwin who served as general counsel and legal coordinator from July 2007 to...
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    Usenet that are pornographic on any given day' was sheer fantasy" wrote Mike Godwin in HotWired. The research was cited during a session of U.S. Congress...
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    reductio ad Hitlerum. Godwin's law asserts that a Nazi analogy is increasingly likely the longer an internet discussion continues; Mike Godwin also stated that...
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    Rod Christopher Godwin Jr. (born February 27, 1996) is an American football wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League...
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    Hannah Godwin (born February 4, 1995) is an American television personality, model and YouTuber. She appeared on season 23 of The Bachelor, where she received...
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  • speech lawyer Mike Godwin. It was first published in 1998 by Times Books. It was republished in 2003 as a revised edition by The MIT Press. Godwin graduated...
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    Datta Florence Devouard Oscar van Dillen Sue Gardner Arnnon Geshuri Mike Godwin Aaron Halfaker James Heilman Guy Kawasaki Patricio Lorente Katherine...
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    and collectivism. Stephenson at this time would later be described by Mike Godwin as "a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor...
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    Datta Florence Devouard Oscar van Dillen Sue Gardner Arnnon Geshuri Mike Godwin Aaron Halfaker James Heilman Guy Kawasaki Patricio Lorente Katherine...
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  • was provided by Kapor, Wozniak, and an anonymous benefactor. In 1990, Mike Godwin joined the organization as its first staff counsel. Then in 1991, Esther...
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  • as it achieves self-awareness. The character Michael Godwin was named after attorney Mike Godwin to thank for his technical assistance in linking Sterling...
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    offended at even the mention of Xenu by nonmembers." The free speech lawyer Mike Godwin analyzes actions by the Scientology organization to protect and keep...
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    Rishab Aiyer Ghosh Mike Godwin Harshad Gune Christine Hall Leslie Hawthorn Joi Ito Jim Jagielski Fabio Kon Raj Mathur Martin Michlmayr Mike Milinkovich Ian...
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    Vedro Digital Dharma, p. 190, Quest Books, 2007 ISBN 978-0-8356-0859-6 Mike Godwin Cyber Rights, p. 219, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2003...
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  • Frauenfelder, Simson Garfinkel, Samuel Gelerman, William Gibson, Dan Gillmor, Mike Godwin, George Gilder, Lou Ann Hammond, Chris Hardwick, Virginia Heffernan,...
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    founder and leader of the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (GSoW) project Mike Godwin, former general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation (2007–2010) Martin...
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  • explosives and distributed it at anarchist picnics without repercussion. Mike Godwin, then of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, claimed that journalists...
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    concerned about the potential for overreach. EFF was formed in 1990 and Mike Godwin, also a WELL member, was hired as the first on-staff attorney. Barlow...
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  • and the Electronic Frontier Foundation; project leader for FreeS/WAN Mike Godwin: Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer; electronic rights advocate Ian...
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    position after yet another arrest for DUI; the Wikimedia Foundation lawyer, Mike Godwin, was quoted as saying, "We've never had any documentation of any criminal...
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    International Business Times. 2013-09-06. Retrieved 16 April 2015. Mike Godwin (May 2000). "Rendering Unto CESA: Clinton's contradictory encryption...
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    other outlets, but which were criticized by legal experts including Mike Godwin, Mark Lemley, and David Kaye, as the articles implied that hate speech...
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    encyclopedia was illegal under 18 U.S.C. §701. Wikimedia's general counsel, Mike Godwin, declined to comply, stating that the FBI was misconstruing the law,...
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  • On April 16, 2017, 74-year-old Robert Lee Godwin Sr. (September 7, 1942 – April 16, 2017) was shot and killed while walking in the Glenville neighborhood...
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  • of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." Coined by Mike Godwin in 1990. Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality: the death rate is the sum...
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  • had briefly considered legal action. After the block had been removed, Mike Godwin, general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, stated "there is still...
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