identity, expression & reputation
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Identity, expression & reputation
Mathias Klang @klang67
Who are you?
Online as free space
Truth in anonymity
Facebook make us unhappy
Freedom of expression
The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French Revolution, 1789) Article 11
Highpoint 1948
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.UNDHR, 1948, Article 19
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist” Salman Rushdie
Offended stephen fry
Technology, Gatekeepers & free information
Media centralization: Publishers
Almost 300 years agoThe state as threat, discussion was on imprimatur
Means of productionIn the hands of a small clique
“Social” control
Exodus 20:14
THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)
speakers corner
Enter the net :)
Freedom as side effect
Freedom by agreement (of a homogeneous group)
Open end-to-endPacket switching “liberal” ideology
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.A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
– Barlow 1996
Freedom by design or 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
Remember him?
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.
Orwell "As I Please," Tribune (7 July 1944)
Democracy and identity
Law
democracy
Is teleportation legal?
Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
Architecture
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
Downfall (Der Untergang, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Germany 2003)
2010 Chilling effects
Evil euLaThought control?
The social age of reputation
Socio-economic reputation systems
Reputation & con games
Game theory & Book reviews
Pre-social media rules
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
Normalizing the abnormal
Control
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
John Gilmor (TIME magazine December 1993)
The other control
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
Technology makes society
Formalizing friends: Facebook
"more transparency should make for a more tolerant society in which people eventually accept that everybody sometimes does bad or embarrassing things”
Mark Zuckerberg
The Facebook Elbowbreast
iTunes censor fail
Full disclosure
The Hive-mind
If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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