Lawrence Lessing,  Harward Hukuk Fakultesi prof. Dajha once Satndord'da
calismis ve orada "İnternet ve Toplum" arastirma mekrezini kurmustu.
Creative Commons kurucusu ve Elektronic Frontier Vakiflarinin
yoneticisi,  ve "Software Freedom Law Center"'in yoneticisi.

İnternet ozgurluk temasiyla  yarim saatlik ingilizce bir konusma yapti.
Ingilizce bilenlere oneririm.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100311/1347368524.shtml

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We have noted, recently, that Italian laws and politicians seem to have
a somewhat troubling
<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090504/0148494730.shtml> view of the
internet, where they are quick to blame
<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091215/1217537365.shtml> the
internet for anything bad that happens, and then look to pass laws that
would throw out plenty of good just to protect
<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090719/1555285596.shtml> against the
/possibility/ of any bad happening. This, of course, culminated just
recently in the ruling in an Italian court that three Google execs were
guilty <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100224/0201038283.shtml> of
criminal violations, over a Google-hosted video.

Given all that, it's quite interesting timing to see that Larry Lessig
just gave a speech to the Italian Parliament about how /Internet is
Freedom/ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2UsBXr-ls>. You can see it
below (assuming YouTube doesn't take it down
<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100302/0354498358.shtml>) and it
runs a little over half an hour.

He does not address that particular case (or, actually, any of the
stories coming out of Italy concerning the internet). However, he does
an excellent job setting up the issues related to regulating the
internet -- detailing how there is a generational divide going on here,
and how the digital generation is effectively "waiting for the dinosaurs
to die off," but are still worried about the damage they might do in the
meantime. And, with that, he suggests a rather gentle touch when it
comes to regulations -- a "regulatory humility."

Not surprisingly, there's plenty in the video that I agree with -- but
also plenty that I disagree with. While he does a great job highlighting
three areas (copyright, journalism and transparency), where the internet
does both good and bad, I disagree with his suggestions for "minimizing
the bad." I do agree that we should always look to see if there are ways
to minimize the "bad," but I'm not sure I agree with what he considers
to actually be "harm" in all three of those cases. What he calls "harm,"
looks to me an awful lot like disruption. And you can't minimize
disruption (at least not successfully).

Still, it is a worthwhile video to watch, with especially interesting
timing and audience, given all that's been happening in Italy lately. It
would be nice to know how the audience reacted and responded to the
speech as well.


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