I’m sitting between Jack Balkin and Mark McKenna, and across from Jonathan Zittrain’s face on a television screen, at a beautifully-organized conference at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. The topic is the First Amendment and the Rehnquist Court. JZ is giving a cool variant of his generativity story. If you haven’t … Read more
The post about Rebekah Gewirtz‘s upset victory over the incumbent of 22 years in the race for Ward 6 Alderman in Somerville, MA, on a local website has garnered 82 comments. Wild.
The unstoppable Wendy Seltzer has a post on the week in Internet & governance. In particular, she contextualizes two recent hearings related to open standards online.
Nesson: “Trust the net to the great universities of the world. Lead the universities to grow strong in cyberspace. Make them repositories of the value of connection, portals of access to and ability to contribute to a global common wealth of knowledge. Just as with the growth of the proprietary domain in the last chapter … Read more
“Forget the mayor’s race tomorrow,” they’re saying. Britt Blaser, Micah Sifry, and other good people have been working on an interesting campaign to get people to turn out in NYC for a downballot race. Their man is Andrew Rasiej; he calls himself the “Johnny Appleseed” of technology and politics, he and his team have been … Read more
Ethan Zuckerman has a fascinating post on the reach of the recently-launched Global Voices meta-blog. As with so many projects, I am super-proud of what EZ, Rebecca MacKinnon, and co. have going under the Berkman banner. (Wonder where he’s getting his conclusions? Much in the commendable media-transparency style of David Berlind, Ethan offers up a … Read more
Right now, in Geneva, our colleague Derek Bambauer is in Geneva presenting a paper that he, David Abrams and I have written that compare the world’s anti-spam laws and takes up the problem of whether a model law is possible.
The guru of the cyberlaw business just said that Zittrain has rendered all of what came before useless. zTheory, as it’s now called, instantly coined, is everything that lies ahead — and which is the substantive underpinning of iLaw X (and so on). It is always fun to hear the famous four modes of regulation … Read more
We are here in the Langdell North (Vorenberg) classroom at Harvard Law School for the beginning of iLaw. It’s a fun time: while a course that provides a packed substantive tour of Internet law, it is at once something of a social event, something also of a reunion of people who have worked on these … Read more
We at the OpenNet Initiative released our study on Iran today. Of the states that we have studied, Iran has one of the world’s most sophisticated Internet censorship regimes. Iran has demonstrated its commitment to extensive Internet filtering through the targeting of weblogs, particularly those written in Farsi, the local language. The state blocks political, … Read more