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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), and he created the Internet adage Godwin's law and the notion of an Internet meme.
Promulgated by the American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990, Godwin's law originally referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions. He stated that he introduced Godwin's law in 1990 as an experiment in memetics, specifically to address the ubiquity of such comparisons which he believes regrettably trivialize the Holocaust.
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.
Jun 29, 2017 · 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 Hitler.
Mar 8, 2013 · Godwin, who lives in D.C. and works as a senior policy adviser at Internews, spoke to Daily Intelligencer about how Godwin’s Law has changed through the years, whether it will still exist in the...
Oct 29, 2013 · Mike Godwin's Law: from counter-memes to countering the FBI. The cyberspace rights attorney and creator of a classic internet adage reflects on liberties, whisky and rock climbing alone....
From 1999 to 2001, Godwin served as a reporter on e-commerce and intellectual-property issues for American Lawyer Media, first as senior editor of E-Commerce Law Weekly, then as chief correspondent of IP Worldwide.
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