Download - Limiting the Open Society
LIMITING THE OPEN SOCIETYRegulation by proxy
WHY FREE SPEECH?Is anyone listening…
TRUTH (MILL)TOLERANCE (BOLLINGER)
DEMOCRACY (ART XIX)
Would any politician be against it…
HIGHPOINT 1948
HISTORY…
ALMOST 300 YEARS AGOThe state as threat, discussion was on imprimatur
REVOLUTION & RIGHTS
MEDIA CENTRALIZATION
MEANS OF PRODUCTIONIn the hands of a small clique
speakers corner
ENTER THE NET :)
FREEDOM AS SIDE EFFECT
Freedom by AGREEMENT (of a homogeneous group)
Open end-to-endPacket switching “liberal” ideology
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
• Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
Barlowe, 1996
FREEDOM AS BI-PRODUCT
MILTON FRIEDMAN
There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to
increase its profits…
CENSORSHIP
CIRCUS DOGS JUMP WHEN THE TRAINER CRACKS HIS WHIP, BUT THE REALLY WELL-TRAINED DOG IS THE ONE THAT TURNS HIS SOMERSAULT WHEN THERE IS NO WHIP.
Lone voices in the crowd/cloud
AFFORDANCESInadvertent censorship
GERMAN ENGINEER PROBLEM
CHILLING EFFECTS
EVIL EULAThought control?
REGULATION BY PROXYWhen states wash their hands…
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
REMEMBER…What its there for!
IF LIBERTY MEANS ANYTHING AT ALL, IT MEANS THE RIGHT TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR.
WHAT I WANT…Freedom of speech on the platforms of others
Return of the state End of regulation by proxy
or remove free speech as a human right…
It’s the hypocrisy that I find insulting
THANK YOU.
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