Stifle

I've got a new feature up on Internet Evolution today, a piece called "Internet ©rapshoot: How Internet Gatekeepers Stifle Progress," about how everybody wants to be a gatekeeper -- the studios and publishers, the bookstores and online retailers and theaters, the "creators rights 'groups" and how that ends up screwing everyone:

Boing Boing 2009

Stifle Rummy .... quit criticizing and let Obama do his job.

Rumsfeld says Obama made 'bald misstatement' 2009

Stifle, or let fly under the excuse that it sounds just like a snort-wheeze?

To Pee or Not To Pee Off Your Treestand? 2009

For example, for a horse, arrows pointing to the Muzzle, the Croup, the Knee, Fetlock, Stifle, and Coronet of a horse.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Five things Not to Do After the Screeching Halt 2009

Teachers unions just announced that they're going to hold the first ever "Summit to Stifle Education Reform."

Bob Bowdon: Teachers Unions and Shifting Winds Bob Bowdon 2010

Stifle, or let fly under the excuse that it sounds just like a snort-wheeze?

To Pee or Not To Pee Off Your Treestand? 2009

Stifle your face with them till you can't breathe.

Good Country. People. Heather Fowler 2011

Stifle that curiosity and you kills what makes us great.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

"Yo, y-know, we got us a real problem here There's some winds in the air gonna cost us dear Need somethin" to stiff -em Stifle -em, kick -em Knock -em for a loop and stuff -em Down in a crack, gotta break their back Take -em apart or cram -em in a sack, Jack If y-know what we mean.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

Stifle that instinct to dust off and start over like you're brand-new.

Stop. 2009