Reaction.

• Position: Letter to the editor

"Who's running Obamanomics in the president's second term? See @ petersuderman for @reason."

--Twitter user @SteveForbesCEO, in response to "Obamanomics 2.0" (July)

"Morozov is kind of right here, but for all the wrong reasons. The Internet is a kind of abstraction that we apply meaning to. It's no different than 'The Phone System' was to Victorian society...so nothing new there. 'Internet freedom' is freedom. Just like the Journalist Shield law is the First Amendment."

--reason.com commenter "Paul,"in response to, "A Net Skeptic's Conservative Manifesto" (July)

"I don't understand how you can patent something that has existed for eons. Sure, you could develop a method of testing for specific genes and patent that, but the genes themselves? No way."

--reason.com commenter...