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Mike Godwin. 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), and he created the Internet adage Godwin's law and the notion of an Internet meme. [1] From July 2007 to October 2010, he was general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation.
Dec 20, 2023 · Mike Godwin is an attorney and author in Washington. My very minor status as an authority on Adolf Hitler comparisons stems from having coined “Godwin’s Law” about three decades ago.
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Dec 19, 2023 · It’s a virtually unbreakable rule known as “Godwin’s law,” named after Mike Godwin, an early internet enthusiast who coined it back in 1990. It’s also understood that often the party ...
Jun 29, 2017 · 6 minute read. T he code that runs the World Wide Web was still being written when attorney Mike Godwin came up with a simple law: Sooner or later in any online argument, someone will bring up ...
Oct 29, 2013 · Mike Godwin's Law: from counter-memes to countering the FBI. This article is more than 10 years old. The cyberspace rights attorney and creator of a classic internet adage reflects on liberties ...
Mar 8, 2013 · All the way back in 1990, a lawyer who has been on the Internet longer than you have, Mike Godwin, introduced the now widely familiar Godwin’s Law, which predicted the inevitability of a Hitler ...
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