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Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
humanity is still adapting to the fact that ordinary people have broadcasting capability. cultural norms around this are still being negotiated in real time. it’s actually imo more disruptive than promethean fire; you can’t use fire to burn people on the other side of the planet
having failed to make openness illegal using state power, the oligopolists are now trying to make it irrelevant using private power, network effects and hard-wired filters.
James Boyle • Misunderestimating openness – Open Future
Information is not only easier to capture now in digital form, but it is also virtually costless to copy.
Ian Ayres • Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
The potential for exploitation of creative content and ideas by corporate overreach is a significant concern.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Copyright nearly killed the open web, in fact. Until the 11th hour of international decision-making on the subject, copyright law in both the US and the EU was going to make all intermediaries on the web, from search engines to internet service providers, liable for all copyright infringements that traveled over their networks, whether they knew ab... See more