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2:23 pm on November 13, 2018 · columbia (18), social media (17), zittrain (9)

WEBCAST TODAY: @zittrain The Food is Bad and the Portions are Big: How to Deal with the Information Environment Fostered by Today’s Social Media Platforms #CJSleaders

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zittrainToday, Tuesday November 13 2018, at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School will deliver the Peter Zenger lecture at Columbia Journalism School. His theme: The Food is Bad and the Portions are Big: How to Deal with the Information Environment Fostered by Today’s Social Media Platforms. Says Zittrain: “There’s little trust right now that Facebook or Twitter are offering well-curated newsfeeds, and not just because, for example, a 14,218-word deeply-researched and -vetted investigative report by the New York Times appears in feeds on the same playing field as a video of a dog wearing pants.” The lecture series is named after John Peter Zenger whose libel trial and eventual acquittal (1735) set a precedent for establishing freedom of the press in America. The event will be webcast live on Youtube.

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/asENunfEKYY
Twitter: #CJSLeaders http://bit.ly/CJSLeaders

2:41 pm on April 16, 2018 · berkman (20), larry lessig (3), laura denardis (10), zittrain (9)

WEBCAST TODAY: Force of Nature – Celebrating 20 Years of the Laws of Cyberspace @BKCHarvard w/ @lessig, Ruth Okediji, @LauraDeNardis and @zittrain

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livestreamToday Monday April 16 2018 at 4pm ET (20:200 UTC), the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society presents Force of Nature – Celebrating 20 Years of the Laws of Cyberspace at Harvard Law School. The event recognizes the 20th anniversary of the paper The Laws of Cyberspace (Taipei March ’98) by Professor Lawrence Lessig. Speakers: Professor Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, along with Professor Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center, and Dr. Laura DeNardis, Professor in the School of Communication at American University, with moderator, Professor Jonathan Zittrain, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The event will be webcast live, and simulcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel. (No captions).

View on Livestream: Internet Society Livestream Channel
Twitter: @BKCHarvard | #forces20

9:26 am on November 21, 2017 · intermediary liability (7), internet freedom (81), james grimmelmann (5), law (46), olivier sylvain (1), section 230 (9), zittrain (9)

.@lawdotcom celebrates 20th anniversary of Zeran v. AOL #netfreedom

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Zeran v. America Online, Inc.On November 10 2017 Eric Goldman and Jeff Kossoff published Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Internet Law’s Most Important Judicial Decision to mark the 20th anniversary of Zeran v. AOL, a landmark decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that clarified and defined 47 U.S.C. §230 aka Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which established the principle of immunity from liability for ‘intermediary’ providers e.g. ISPs. The article notes

Together, §230 and the Zeran ruling helped create a trillion-dollar industry centered around user-generated content. Because of its influence on such a key issue, the Zeran ruling is widely considered the most important Internet Law ruling ever.

The article introduces a series of essays by Internet law experts, including Jonathan Zittrain, James Grimmelmann, and Olivier Sylvain,on the history, merits and impact of the ruling.

6:26 pm on March 11, 2015 · google (23), ig2us (2), right to be forgotten (3), zittrain (9)

WEBCAST TODAY: @IQ2US Debate “The U.S. Should Adopt the “Right to Be Forgotten” Online w/ @zittrain #RightToBeForgotten

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iq2usToday Wednesday March 11 2015 at 6:45pm EDT Intelligence Squared will host a debate – The U.S. Should Adopt the “Right to Be Forgotten – at the Kaufman Center in NYC. In 2014, the European Union’s Court of Justice determined that individuals have a right to be forgotten, “the right—under certain conditions—to ask search engines to remove links with personal information about them.” It is not absolute, but meant to be balanced against other fundamental rights, like freedom of expression. In a half year following the Court’s decision, Google received over 180,000 removal requests. Of those reviewed and processed, 40.5% were granted. Largely seen as a victory in Europe, in the U.S., the reaction has been overwhelmingly negative. Was this ruling a blow to free speech and public information, or a win for privacy and human dignity? For: Paul Nemitz, Dir. of Fundamental Rights & Citizenship, DG Justice & Consumers, EU Commission; Eric Posner, Professor of Law, University of Chicago. Against: Andrew McLaughlin, CEO, Digg and Instapaper & Fmr. Dir. of Global Public Policy, Google; Jonathan Zittrain, Professor, Harvard Law & Co-Founder, Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The vent will be webcast live via fora.tv

What: The U.S. Should Adopt the “Right to Be Forgotten
Where: Kaufman Center in NYC
When: Wednesday March 11 2015 at 6:45pm EDT | 00:45 UTC
Webcast: http://library.fora.tv/event/the_us_should_adopt_the_right_to_be_forgotten_online/watchlive
Twitter: #RightToBeForgotten

1:24 pm on April 11, 2014 · benkler (1), berkman (20), bruce schneier (9), internet freedom (81), nsa (10), surveillance (38), zittrain (9)

VIDEO: Intelligence Gathering and the #Unowned Internet @BerkmanCenter #surveillance #netfreedom #nsa

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On April 8 2014 the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University hosted a discussion –Intelligence Gathering and the Unowned Internet. The long-term viability of an unowned, open Internet remains in question. Any analysis of where the Internet is headed as a protocol and a platform must take into account the activities of both public and private entities that see the Internet as a source of intelligence — and a field of contention. This meeting aimed to leverage perspectives from inside and outside the U.S. intelligence community to bring some clarity to a discussion often rife with confusion. Participants included: Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School; John DeLong, Director of Compliance, National Security Agency; Anne Neuberger, Commercial Solutions Center Director, National Security Agency; Bruce Schneier, CTO of CO3 Systems and Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Jonathan Zittrain, Co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Terry Fisher. Wilmer Hale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society moderated the discussion. Video is below:

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/2dtsX5BdOKU
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/gAtKHGZnl4Pv/
Download: video | audio
Twitter: #unowned

12:57 am on September 7, 2010 · zittrain (9)

Online Symposium: Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet–And How To Stop It

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The Future of the InternetConcurring Opinions – a ” multiple authored, general interest legal blog” – is holding an online symposium Sep 7-8 2010 to discuss Jonathan Zittrain’ s The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. A number of noted thinkers have been invited to join the regular contributors. To read just go to the blog homepage.

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3:17 am on September 3, 2010 · briefing (2), cloud (19), Economist (1), farber (1), netneutrality (13), Vint Cerf (106), zittrain (9)

The Economist briefing: The Future of The Internet

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The EconomistThe Economist has published a comprehensive briefing A virtual counter-revolution on the state of The Internet – including Net Neutrality and trends towards balkanization.

The briefing notes that Net Neutrality concerns are a peculiarly American obsession, due to the lack of provider competition:

America’s operators have long insisted that open-access requirements would destroy their incentive to build fast, new networks: why bother if you will be forced to share it? After intense lobbying, America’s telecoms regulators bought this argument. But the lesson from elsewhere in the industrialised world is that it is not true. The result, however, is that America has a small number of powerful network operators, prompting concern that they will abuse their power unless they are compelled, by a net-neutrality law, to treat all traffic equally. Rather than trying to mandate fairness in this way—net neutrality is very hard to define or enforce – it makes more sense to address the underlying problem: the lack of competition.

The briefing notes increasing nationalistic trends in government control of Internet traffic, and worries that nations will ultimately go rogue on the DNS system; also that the predicted dominance of tightly controlled cloud-based apps which will turn the Internet into a series of ‘walled gardens’ aka ‘islands’ – inhibiting generativity. However such trends are not seen as inevitable:

Yet predictions are hazardous, particularly in IT. Governments may yet realise that a freer internet is good not just for their economies, but also for their societies. Consumers may decide that it is unwise to entrust all their secrets to a single online firm such as Facebook, and decamp to less insular alternatives, such as Diaspora.

The briefing concludes that it’s anybody’s guess how it will all turn out.

11:54 pm on December 8, 2009 · berkman (20), censorship (19), filtering (3), ONI (1), OpenNet Initiative (1), zittrain (9)

Access Denied: The Policy of Global Internet Filtering

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Rob Faris, the OpenNet Initiative’s Research Director and John Palfrey, one of the project’s Principal Investigators, lead a discussion of Internet filtering and provided a glimpse of the results of ONI’s first global survey of Internet censorship.

In the last year ONI has studied forty countries and found a substantial increase in Internet censorship, colored by complex and dynamic political, legal and social processes. The research will be documented in the forthcoming MIT Press book: Access Denied: the Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering.

The OpenNet Initiative is a partnership between the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the Advanced Network Research Group at the Cambridge Security Programme at Cambridge University, and the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.