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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