Bad news for the bizarre JailCam. Normalisation of the web in the United States has meant that existing business groups have taken an increasing interest in information policy. We've noted the ACT's current defense of poor little Microsoft, for example, and the CAGW crusade against Big Brother. Infighting among citizen action groups has often been quite visceral. Depending on your point of view that organisation has been a standard bearer of the Californian Ideology dissected by Paulina Borsook or a valiant fighter against the evils of regulation, including antediluvian notions such as copyright.
Opinions differ and the truth is more complex than caricatures painted by the left and right.
The group was founded in 1990 by Mitch Kapor and the quirky Grateful Deadhead John Barlow, with support from luminaries such as Esther Dyson and John Gilmore. We've pointed to some of their writings in various guides on the Caslon Analytics site. It moved its office to Washington and sought to become the preeminent cyberliberties defense group. Amid disagreements among its board and members the organisation left Washington and headed for California, ending up in Gilmore's basement. Arguably that move reflected marginalisation by its competitors.