Law in the Internet Society

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Second draft up for your review.

 Eben, there was one comment that I'm not sure I understood. You said "Our strategy is to drive up their costs by helping people to want to be free." Could expand on this please?
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 Eben, there was one comment that I'm not sure I understood. You said "Our strategy is to drive up their costs by helping people to want to be free." Could expand on this please?
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  • Sure. Consider my two original sentences in context: "They [the Chinese Communist Party and other regimes trying to control the net] cannot employ voluntarism to manufacture unfreedom as we can to manufacture freedom, so they are compelled to an eternal drain of resources making enough unfreedom to keep under control the freedom we manufacture for free. Our strategy is to drive up their costs by helping people to want to be free." Because unfreedom has to be paid for out of the regime's resources, and is directly proportional at best to the amount of free conduct going on, increasing peoples' propensity to behave freely drives the costs of control to the breaking point. Increasing peoples' propensity to behave freely requires only stimulating their hunger for free expression and their contempt for those who need to interfere with it.
 

The Internet, the News Ecosystem and the Rational Ignorant fool.

-- By LaurenKlein - 08 Nov 2009

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 Perhaps the Internet is the printing press 2.0 and significant social and political changes will emerge from this technology in even the most repressive regimes, the same way the printing press impacted science and religion in the 15th and 16th centuries.

The value of the Internet then, does come from the paradigm for each individual to be able to think for herself. Perhaps that thinking will still be molded by mainstream media or perhaps it will be shaped by content previously on the margins of society now equally accessible (at least until Comcast and the movie industry own all our content). If, however, the “value of the Internet is having the very wisest people on earth thinking for you,” as Eben commented here earlier, then unless these wise thinkers can help other people act wisely, it would seem the majority of our society is doomed to life as rational fools. Nuanced thinking often doesn't lend itself to mass dissemination.

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  • I think this is a finished revision. I don't find myself fully satisfied with the argument, but I believe those are disagreements rather than deficiencies in the essay.

Revision 6r6 - 23 Jan 2010 - 20:18:16 - EbenMoglen
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