Freedom and Political Morality
Benkler
 
Regulation of speech
·        Law
o       Affects speech through formal censorship
§         Smut
·        Lady Chaterly’s lover  
·        Technology
o       Brown paper covers
o       Radio cleaned by law
o       CIPA
§         Cyberporn
§         Law requires verification of age via credit card – increase oppty for social surveillance which ties to social norms
·        Social Norms
o       Shame of asking for copy kept behind counter
·        Market
o       Pervasive violence but prudish on sex/nudity
 
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Zittrain
            Demos filtering at Saudi site
            And AG in Pennsylvania
            Get link to his empirical analysis of filtering in china
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[will have to refer to others here – and consult my recorder}
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Political Democratic Discourse

Political economy media studies critique of commercial and concentrated media

Berlusconi effect
Baywatch effect
Positive political economy feedbacks

Campaign finance
 
[hmm.. I’m paying attention now – course the last time I read political economy papers – I got a headache.]
 
How are these effected by the internet when it is open? 
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Possibility and Challenge

150 year trend towards industrialized information production
computer networks invert the organization of communications facilities
open the possibility of

radical decentralization (hmm.. Bowling Alone?)
substantial increase in role of non-market production
freedom from both government and private censorship (as if we can ever escape social norms)
will we move to an internet model or will we stay with a glorified broadcast model?
Building the commons
      A core common infrastructure
      Physical layer – funded by public
      Logical layer
                  Secure a free and open logical layer
                  Reverse DMCA and UCIT
      Content layer
                  Resist the enclosure movement and reclaim the public domain
      Intellectual infrastructure
                  Non-market production (ok, I would rather see more market)
      Institutional infrastructure
           Social practice
      Politics of Freedom in the Commons